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Planting deforestation: The forests that Mexico loses to agribusiness

Thelma Gómez Durán 14 Jun 2023
An art installation by Saype portraying plastic pollution.

UN Paris meeting presses ahead with binding plastics treaty — U.S. resists

Charles Pekow 9 Jun 2023

Illegal settlements, hunting and logging threaten a state reserve in Mexico

Thelma Gómez Durán 8 Jun 2023

Intense fires threaten water supply and habitats in Mexico’s Pico de Orizaba

Flavia Morales 7 Jun 2023

Strong like an oak tree: Guardians of the Juanacatlán forest in Mexico

Adriana Navarro Ramírez 31 May 2023

U.S. says Mexico failed to uphold international treaty protecting vaquita porpoise

Maxwell Radwin 30 May 2023
A black-backed woodpecker in a Parker 2 Fire area in Modoc County, California.

Woodpeckers for fire recovery? A new online tool tells you how

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 May 2023
The Palmer mine site, which has been proposed near Glacier Creek, just below the Saksaia glacier.

Residents of southeast Alaskan town debate mine that’s bound to change region

Evan Bourtis 26 May 2023
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Financial downturn at Enviva could mean trouble for biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 25 May 2023
Metal debris in water near SpaceX launch site. Image courtesy of the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries program of Defenders of Wildlife.

Don’t destroy Earth on the way to Mars (commentary)

Sharon Wilcox 23 May 2023
DRC copper Mine April 2017https://www.flickr.com/photos/fairphone/35456682034/in/photostream/

NGOs urge continued sanctions against DRC mining giant Dan Gertler

Elodie Toto 23 May 2023

An Asian grass helps Mexican farmers build resilience to climate change

Sandra Weiss 22 May 2023

Chemical spill in Nicaraguan reserve raises questions about industrial mining regulations

Maxwell Radwin 19 May 2023
Octopuses are widely recognized as having high intelligence and complex inner lives. Photo by Pia B. published to the Creative Commons via Pexels.

Conservation must acknowledge animal sentience (commentary)

Nicole Roberts 19 May 2023
Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) reefs in the U.S.

Studies show oyster reef restoration can work out well — given enough time

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 May 2023
Cleaning a beach in the Dominican Republic.

Sargassum surges in Mexico: From nuisance to new green industry?

Sandra Weiss 17 May 2023
During their five-year project, To-Syn-Fuel converted more than 500 metric tons of dried sewage sludge into 50,000 liters (13,200 gallons) of oil.

Crud-to-crude: The global potential of biofuels made from human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 May 2023
An Atlantic puffin inspecting a decoy

Seabird conservation mostly works, comprehensive new data set shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 May 2023
Lagae and biofuel.

As Exxon bows out, industry takes step toward sustainable algae biofuels

Carly Nairn 9 May 2023
A coho salmon spawning.

Spamming streams with hatchery salmon can disrupt ecosystems, study finds

Ruth Kamnitzer 9 May 2023
Lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae). Image by Alan Schmierer via Flickr (public domain).

Social media can be a bat’s best friend (commentary)

Emily Eilers 9 May 2023
Mekong giant catfish

‘Chasing giants’: Q&A with megafish biologist and author Zeb Hogan

Carolyn Cowan 9 May 2023

The Mexican family who gave up fishing to monitor and rescue sea turtles

Astrid Arellano 9 May 2023

A Guatemalan town fights to bar gold mining and save its waters

Jorge Rodríguez 9 May 2023

Guatemala national park nearing ‘collapse’ amid land grabbing, deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 4 May 2023

Meet the ‘forest fishers’ restoring mangroves and livelihoods in Mexico

Flavia Morales 3 May 2023

Mexico approves mining reforms to protect environment, Indigenous people

Maxwell Radwin 2 May 2023
Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Image by Karsten Winegeart via Unsplash.

Hawaiian communities restore Indigenous conservation, from mountains to sea

Roxanne Hoorn 2 May 2023
A resting gray wolf (Canis lupus). Photo by Gary Kramer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Montana cannot be trusted with grizzly bear & wolf management (commentary)

Lara Birkes 1 May 2023
An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis). Image by Martinus Scriblerus via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Apache tribe decry loss of sacred site to massive copper mine at both court and the U.N.

Kate Schimel 27 Apr 2023
Elizabeth Azzuz and Margo Robbins, leaders of the Cultural Fire Management Council, have been helping Yurok Tribal members burn their land to improve the growth of basket materials and other traditional plants. Photo by Jane Braxton Little for Mongabay

Funders commit $102.5 million to support tribal-led conservation efforts in the U.S.

Laurel Sutherland 27 Apr 2023
Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist with Oregon-based NGO Wild Heritage walks on a trail.

The U.S. has cataloged its forests. Now comes the hard part: Protecting them

Justin Catanoso 27 Apr 2023

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