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Yucatán Peninsula’s hidden underground life tracks changes at the surface

Astrid Arellano 29 May 2024

Honduran environmental defenders hit hard by human rights crisis, report says

Maxwell Radwin 28 May 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Mexico’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 27 May 2024
Tropical forest in Panama. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Cutting forests for solar energy ‘misses the plot’ on climate action (commentary)

Judith D. Schwartz 24 May 2024

Otter-preneurs: Female sea otters lead the way in tool use for survival

Liz Kimbrough 24 May 2024

Fishers decry ‘underhanded’ new initiative to protect Mexico’s vaquita

Daniel Shailer 24 May 2024
A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

Are carbon credits another resource-for-cash grab? Interview with Alondra Cerdes Morales & Samuel Nguiffo

Latoya Abulu, Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 May 2024

Organized crime puts unprecedented pressure on Guatemala’s largest rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 20 May 2024
Oil refinery smokestacks along the Athabasca River, in northern Alberta, Canada.

Canada oil sands air pollution 20-64 times worse than industry says: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 16 May 2024

Environmental defenders paid the price during Panama’s historic mining protests – report

Maxwell Radwin 14 May 2024

Pemex waste contaminates Mexican communities while talking ‘sustainability’

Sarah Sax 14 May 2024

Mexico Indigenous community makes strides to land rights, but obstacles remain

Astrid Arellano 14 May 2024

Fishers, scientists restore mangroves on a Mexican isle wrecked by salt mining

Astrid Arellano 13 May 2024

The Narwhal makes waves in Canada for environmental journalism

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 7 May 2024
Cattle in a deforested patch of Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Indonesian palm oil, Brazilian beef top contributors to U.S. deforestation exposure

Liz Kimbrough 7 May 2024
Indigenous people with sled dogs in Greenland.

Plastic pollution talks end & Arctic peoples return home to a ‘sink’ of plastic

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 7 May 2024

UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants

Justin Catanoso 6 May 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Panama’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 30 Apr 2024

Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2024
Salt tolerant plants are part of a 'living shorelines' project on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

U.S. East Coast adopts ‘living shorelines’ approach to keep rising seas at bay

Erik Hoffner 24 Apr 2024
A sign marks a boundary of the Tohono O'odham Reservation.

Tribes turn to the U.N. as major wind project plans to cut through their lands in the U.S.

Taylar Dawn Stagner 24 Apr 2024

All aboard Tren Maya: Here’s what we found riding Mexico’s controversial railway

Maxwell Radwin 24 Apr 2024
A recovering scleractinian coral reef on Hancock Seamount in the Northwestern Hawaiian Ridge, just inside U.S. waters. Research shows that seafloor ecosystems can undergo some recovery from the effects of bottom fishing if they are protected for 30 to 40 years afterwards. Image courtesy of A. Baco-Taylor and E. B. Roark, National Science Foundation, with Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory pilots T. Kerby and M. Cremer.

No protection from bottom trawling for seamount chain in northern Pacific

Edward Carver 22 Apr 2024
A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Mexico’s avocado industry harms monarch butterflies, will U.S. officials act? (commentary)

Stephanie Feldstein 22 Apr 2024
Acorns on an oak tree.

Drone cameras help scientists distinguish between drought stress & fungus in oaks

Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 Apr 2024
Guna homes on the coastline of Gardi Sugdub Island.

Panama delays promised relocation of sinking island community

Aimee Gabay 17 Apr 2024
Cattle ranch next to a recently deforested area in Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia, Brazil. Photo courtesy of Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance).

Traceability is no silver bullet for reducing deforestation (commentary)

Erasmus zu Ermgassen 12 Apr 2024

Haunting song pays tribute to Toughie, the frog whose extinction went unnoticed

Liz Kimbrough 10 Apr 2024

Rewilding program ships eggs around the world to restore Raja Ampat zebra sharks

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Apr 2024
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Costa Rican community struggles to stop an airport ‘destroying our country’

Alice Pistolesi, Monica Pelliccia 8 Apr 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Sean Mowbray 5 Apr 2024
Satellite image of wildfires in Quebec, Canada, in June, 2023.

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2024

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