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Juvenile sakondry on a branch. Their dusty coating is washed off before they’re cooked. Image by Brian Fisher.

Bug bites: Edible insect production ramps up quickly in Madagascar

Emilie Filou 19 Nov 2020

Building a road to recovery for subtle racism in conservation (commentary)

Resson Kantai Duff 19 Nov 2020

The Amazon’s Yanomami utterly abandoned by Brazilian authorities: Report

Sue Branford 19 Nov 2020

Brazil art exhibition showcases an Indigenous worldview and poses questions

Sibélia Zanon 19 Nov 2020

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

Manuela Andreoni, Diàlogo Chino 19 Nov 2020

For sustainable business, ‘planetary boundaries’ define the new rules

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Nov 2020

Without planting more trees in the tropics, we can’t fix the climate (commentary)

Edward Mitchard 18 Nov 2020

‘CSI Amazon’: Epic study looks at what’s killing the rainforest’s trees

Liz Kimbrough 18 Nov 2020

A Malagasy community wins global recognition for saving its lake

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Nov 2020

A Philippine community sees life-saving payoffs from restoring its mangroves

Jun N. Aguirre 18 Nov 2020

Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on

Ana Ionova 17 Nov 2020

The Amazon’s short-eared dog was thought to be a scavenger. Now there’s video

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Nov 2020

The riddle of Madagascar’s megafauna extinction just got trickier

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Nov 2020

More Indonesian sailors repatriated from deadly Chinese fishing fleet

Basten Gokkon 16 Nov 2020
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

As 2020 Amazon fire season winds down, Brazil carbon emissions rise

Liz Kimbrough 16 Nov 2020

Brazil’s Bem Querer dam: An impending Amazon disaster (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 16 Nov 2020
Blackwater oxbow lake in the Amazon. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

One Health: A necessary blend of biodiversity and human health goals (commentary)

Annie Mark 16 Nov 2020
School of hammerhead sharks, northwest Galápagos. Photo by Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org

Could China become a partner in Galapagos marine conservation? Yolanda Kakabadse thinks so

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2020

Conserve freshwater or land biodiversity? Why not both, new study asks

Claire Asher 16 Nov 2020
Burnt forest, in Porto Velho, Rondônia state. 18 Aug, 2020 CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation shoots higher in October, reversing 3-month trend

Mongabay.com 14 Nov 2020

Graphic novel version of classic science memoir aims for new audiences

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2020
New York, NY - January 7, 2020: Former Vice President & Democratic hopeful Joe Biden made foreign policy statement at Current on Pier 59, Lev Radin for Shutterstock

Biden’s election is good news for the climate. But what comes next?

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Nov 2020

The women of Kendeng set their feet in cement to stop a mine in their lands. This is their story.

Febriana Firdaus 13 Nov 2020

Bribery-tainted coal plant in Indonesia held up as landowners hold out

Basten Gokkon 13 Nov 2020

Snare traps decline, but still pose a threat to Leuser’s Sumatran rhinos

Junaidi Hanafiah 13 Nov 2020
amandua and Baita in a still from the documentary film Piripkura (2018). Image courtesy of Bruno Jorge.

Surrounded by intruders, the last of Brazil’s Piripkura hold out in the Amazon

Maurício Angelo 13 Nov 2020
Construction on the Pan Borneo Highway in northern Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Activists in Malaysia call on road planners to learn the lessons of history

John Cannon 13 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

Myanmar’s new langur species is ‘very beautiful,’ but critically endangered

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Nov 2020

Conservation must be primary goal of great ape tourism, despite COVID-driven recessions (commentary)

Trang Chu Minh 12 Nov 2020

Satellites, maps and the flow of cattle: Brazilian solutions for reducing deforestation are already in use

Naira Hofmeister, Fernanda Wenzel, Pedro Papini 12 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

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