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Cypriot natural gas could start flowing from ExxonMobil’s discoveries by 2033

Associated Press 30 Jun 2026
Researcher Ricardo Marques visiting a forest seedling nursery in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Hylaea.

Secret Amazon species may be new source of ibogaine for addiction treatment

Jenny Gonzales 30 Jun 2026
A jimbu (Allium przewalskianum) in the Tibetan Plateau.

What’s jimbu? The herb that bolsters an iconic Nepali dish could also help save snow leopards

Bibek Bhandari 30 Jun 2026
Nenieveh Glinoga now opens the farm to overnight visitors, something she was previously unable to do because of the lack of potable water and bathroom.

A coastal Philippine farm offers a blueprint for farming with wetlands

Mavic Conde 29 Jun 2026
Four men stand in muddy water holding a brown fishnet full of fish.

Aquatic animal and terrestrial meat trades now almost on par, FAO report finds

Elizabeth Fitt 29 Jun 2026

Human rights abuse allegations continue to rise in the mining sector, report finds

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jun 2026

As Amazon oil drilling begins, scientists warn of risks to a little-known reef

Suzana Camargo 29 Jun 2026
A fisher offloads gear in front of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal operated by state-owned energy company PTT Public Company Limited at the Map Ta Phut Industrial Port in Rayong province, Thailand, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. Once completed, the Burapa power plant will receive natural gas via pipeline from a terminal at the port. Image by Andy Ball for Mongabay.

Thai farmers fear water woes from planned LNG plant

Gerald Flynn 29 Jun 2026

Women patrol Tanzania’s Pemba waters in a community-led push to protect the sea

David Akana 27 Jun 2026
A chicken farm in France. Image courtesy of the Brittany Chamber of Agriculture.

Extreme heat wave in France kills hundreds of thousands of poultry

Shanna Hanbury 26 Jun 2026
A Himalayan wolf.

How snow leopards, wolves and leopards share the same Himalayan valley, study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2026
Dang Dinh Bach speaking.

Vietnamese environmental lawyer Dang Dinh Bach released after 5 years in prison

Naina Rao 26 Jun 2026
African baobab (Adansonia digitata), Chikwawa district, Malawi. Image by Rob Palmer via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Three years after Cyclone Freddy, farms remain under water in Malawi’s Elephant Marsh

Charles Mpaka 26 Jun 2026
A whitespotted eagle ray in its natural habitat. Understanding the diet of predators is crucial to figure out the resources they depend on and the pressure it puts on prey.

Chewing sounds can help decode an animal’s diet using AI, new study finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 26 Jun 2026
Cocoa producer Giovanne holds a native Amazon species, which is naturally resistant to pests and extreme weather. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto.

Amazon floodplains cocoa offers a climate-resilient and sustainable chocolate

Sam Cowie, Cícero Pedrosa Neto 25 Jun 2026

Trump admin persists in quixotic quest against wind power despite legal defeat

Bobby Bascomb 25 Jun 2026

How leopards and wolves share the same Himalayan valley: Study

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2026

New analysis breaks down 2025 Amazon deforestation, with good news and bad news

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2026
Fishers in Sahamalaza-Iles Radama Marine Protected Area. Image courtesy of Madagascar National Parks.

Six marine sanctuaries recognized as Blue Parks, four of them in Africa

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jun 2026
Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus), Nzérékoré, Guinea. Image by augustofaustino via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Leaked study warns of irreversible damage from iron ore mine in Guinea UNESCO site

Josef Skrdlik, Oliver Dunn 24 Jun 2026
Kusile Power Station, South Africa's largest plant at 4,800 MW, on the outskirts of eMalahleni. Image by Joe Walsh for Mongabay.

Failed promises to clean air in South Africa’s coal belt take toll on public health

Joe Walsh 24 Jun 2026
While caracals are classified as species of least concern overall, some populations are seriously declining, with some local extinctions; rodenticides join habitat loss, hunting, conflict with humans and other threats to their survival.

Rodent-killing baits threaten small wild cats and other wildlife

Sean Mowbray 23 Jun 2026
A yellow-bellied wattle-eye (Platysteira concreta), a bird of the rainforest understorey, sits on its nest in the Tai National Park. Image courtesy of Michele Menegon.

‘Rare animals, photography and Instagram’ could help an Ivorian rainforest

Ryan Truscott 23 Jun 2026
Ruos Lim, 71, a Kuy Indigenous community leader, harvests corn he planted at the L4 station in Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary

Indigenous people in Cambodia claim they’re blocked from sacred sites

Andy Ball, Phoung Vantha, Roun Ry 23 Jun 2026
Farmers of Bangladesh harvest ripe rice crop

Bangladesh’s lightning death toll persists as years of gov’t safeguards fail

Sadiqur Rahman 23 Jun 2026
A herd of cattle in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state

Brazil curbs Amazon deforestation in Piripkura, but ranchers’ cattle linger

Aimee Gabay 22 Jun 2026
Rain over the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

South America’s farms depend, in part, on a healthy Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2026

Power lines threaten Sri Lanka’s iconic migrant flamingos

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2026

Accountability advocates ‘shocked’ as Canadian government eliminates watchdog agency

Annie Burns-Pieper 20 Jun 2026
Drone view of Chiquitano forest recently deforested on the edge of the Bolivian Amazon for soy production. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Suriname will not be saved by soybeans (commentary)

Mark J. Plotkin 19 Jun 2026

Illegal miners adapt their strategies in Yanomami Amazon territory

Rubens Valente 17 Jun 2026
A humpback whale fluke.

Protect Antarctic krill to preserve the health of Africa’s coastal communities (commentary)

Carmen dos Santos 17 Jun 2026

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