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Clearing beached Sargassum in Sierra Leone. Image courtesy Environmental Protection Agency – Sierra Leone

Entangled: How a global seaweed ‘plague’ threatens West Africa’s coastline

Richard Arghiris 11 Nov 2020

Podcast: Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar

Mike Gaworecki 11 Nov 2020

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2020

The crypto-creature from the deep: Researchers get rare video of bigfin squid

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Nov 2020
A Grauer's Gorilla in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in late 2016. There are fewer than 4,000 of the gorilla subspecies left. Photo by Thomas Nicolon

As energy needs drive demand for minerals, forests face greater threats

Victoria Schneider 11 Nov 2020

Road-paving project threatens a wildlife-rich reserve in Indonesia’s Papua

Asrida Elisabeth 11 Nov 2020

Whale zone ahead: A cetacean speed trap tags ships going over the limit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Nov 2020

Technology innovations look to change the cacao landscape in Colombia

Aurora Solá 10 Nov 2020

Honoring children and protecting the planet: An interview with musician Raffi

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2020

Philippine resort owner hit with environmental charges as Boracay cleans up

Jun N. Aguirre 10 Nov 2020

A new conservation project is created in Costa Rica thanks to COVID-19

Milan Sime Martinic 9 Nov 2020

As fire season ends, Brazil cited for failed Amazon and Pantanal policies

Jenny Gonzales 9 Nov 2020

Environmental democracy in Ecuador promotes anti-mining agenda

Vincent Ricci 9 Nov 2020

Conservationists replant legal palm oil plantation with forest in Borneo

Jeremy Hance 9 Nov 2020
Banner image of a caribou calf in the archive study area by Karsten Heuer.

A warming Arctic is changing animal migrations, decades of tracking shows

Liz Kimbrough 9 Nov 2020

Peru prosecutors probe Amazon deforestation linked to Mennonite communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Nov 2020
Nasrullah, a fisherman from Lombok island, shows one of the lobsters raised in his aquafarm. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Mongabay’s most popular conservation news stories in October 2020

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2020

Frustration as Antarctic conservation summit fails to declare marine sanctuaries

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Nov 2020

In Brazil’s Sooretama, a piece of the Amazon thrives in the Atlantic Forest

Leonardo Merçon 6 Nov 2020
Trucks loaded with sugar cane on one of the dirt roads around Bugoma Forest. Photo: Thomas Lewton for Mongabay.

Uganda environment authority greenlights clearing of Bugoma Forest

Thomas Lewton 5 Nov 2020
Firewood is being used on a large scale in Kafountine at the fish smoking factories. ©Jason Florio/United Purpose.

Chinese demand and domestic instability are wiping out Senegal’s last forests

Louise Hunt 5 Nov 2020

Brazilian and international banks financing global deforestation: Reports

Sue Branford; Thais Borges; and Diego Rebouças 5 Nov 2020

Land and language: Indigenous cultures key to protecting Amazon biodiversity

Miguel Pinheiro 5 Nov 2020

Sri Lankans save pilot whales in epic rescue after mass stranding

Malaka Rodrigo 5 Nov 2020

Video: Vets hail ‘victory’ as jaguar burned in Pantanal fires returns to wild

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Nov 2020

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

Claudia Geib 5 Nov 2020

Philippines declares no new coal plants — but lets approved projects through

Leilani Chavez 5 Nov 2020

Indigenous Colombians mount a spiritual defense of the Amazon

Ocean Malandra 4 Nov 2020

Indonesia’s omnibus law a ‘major problem’ for environmental protection

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2020

11 workers killed in landslide at illegal coal mining site in Indonesia

Taufik Wijaya 3 Nov 2020
Caribou calf. Photo © Xavier Fernandez Aguilar

Ice breakers in the Arctic: Let’s talk Inuit safety (commentary)

Martin Robards, Beverly Maksagak 3 Nov 2020

BR-319: The beginning of the end for Brazil’s Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 Nov 2020

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