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Young girl in the Kayapó-Mẽbêngôkre village of Aukre in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: Cristina Mittermeier

“Securing Indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems”: Q&A with Nia Tero CEO Peter Seligmann

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2021

Here goes nothing: Male spiders found giving females silk-wrapped zilch

Anna Nordseth 22 Feb 2021
Satellite image of Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand in February 2021. Photo credit: Maxar Technologies and Planet.

‘Everything on this planet is connected’: Q&A with WWF’s Marco Lambertini

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2021

Backing the stewards of biocultural diversity: Q&A with Indigenous rights leader Carla Fredericks

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2021

Fake it till you save it? Synthetic animal parts pose a conservation conundrum

Claudia Geib 19 Feb 2021

Wasting away: Sea urchins suffer deformities from plastic chemicals

Claire Wordley 17 Feb 2021
White pelicans, Pelecanus onocrotalus, Danube Delta rewilding area, Romania. Photo by Staffan Widstrand / Rewilding Europe.

With shared knowledge, ‘we could build a new world’: Q&A with Lisbet Rausing

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Feb 2021

Investigation: Dutch, Japanese pension funds pay for Amazon deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 5 Feb 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of community-driven conservation efforts and grassroots organizations in the face of global disruptions. Credit: Felipe Rodriguez.

Transforming conservation in times of crisis and opportunity (Commentary)

Fred Nelson, Alasdair Harris, Leela Hazzah, Lúcia G. Lohmann 25 Jan 2021

Canadian First Nation deploys ROV in push for stronger marine protection

Claudia Geib 25 Jan 2021

An eye in the sky on deforestation: Q&A with Jean Jardeleza and Kim Carlson

Claudia Geib 18 Jan 2021
Gentoo penguins watching an iceberg. Image credit: Mongabay

We’re approaching critical climate tipping points: Q&A with Tim Lenton

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Jan 2021

How to transform systems: Q&A with WRI’s Andrew Steer

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jan 2021

Mongabay’s environmental investigations in 2020

Mongabay.com 31 Dec 2020
Coral reef in at Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo by Beth Watson / Ocean Image Bank.

Top positive environmental stories from 2020

Liz Kimbrough 30 Dec 2020
A humpback whale off the coast of the northeastern U.S. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

11 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2020

John Cannon 30 Dec 2020

Indonesia’s five most consequential environmental stories of 2020

Loren Bell 29 Dec 2020
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020

Top 15 species discoveries from 2020 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 28 Dec 2020
Forest cleared for palm oil production in Indonesia. Rhett C. Butler for Mongabay.

Top Indonesian palm oil developments in 2020

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2020

Notable deaths in conservation in 2020

Mongabay.com 28 Dec 2020

Traditional and Indigenous peoples ‘denounce’ planned Amazon railway

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 23 Dec 2020
A village near a community forest in River Cess County, Liberia, 2016. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia gave villagers control over their forests. Then a mining company showed up

Ashoka Mukpo, James Giahyue 22 Dec 2020
A world turned weird. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Top 10 environmental news stories of 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2020
Pine forest in the Sierra Nevada. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Bold sustainability commitments: An interview with Microsoft’s Lucas Joppa

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2020
Tiger in India.

Mongabay launches in Hindi to expand environmental journalism in India

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Nov 2020

Multiplying Amazon river ports open new Brazil-to-China commodities routes

Manuela Andreoni, Diàlogo Chino 19 Nov 2020

Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on Indigenous lands

Eduardo Goulart de Andrade, Hyury Potter, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 13 Nov 2020
A pile of wood that has been prepared to be burned in land controlled by Korindo in Papua. Photo courtesy of Mighty Earth

Palm oil giant Korindo accused again of illegally burning Papuan rainforest

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Nov 2020

Where to patrol next: ‘Netflix’ of ranger AI serves up poaching predictions

Claudia Geib 5 Nov 2020

On a Philippine island, Indigenous women get their say on marine conservation

Jen Chan 22 Oct 2020
Newly hatched olive ridley sea turtle in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The turtle egg that pinged back: Tracing a poaching pathway in Costa Rica

Claudia Geib 22 Oct 2020

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