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Topher White of Rainforest Connection installing a bioacoustic device in the forest canopy. Image by Ben Von Wong.

Big bioacoustics boost: Cornell University program receives $24 million donation

Erik Hoffner 10 Jun 2021

Unregulated by U.S. at home, Facebook boosts wildlife trafficking abroad

Ian Morse 8 Jun 2021

Study shows it took the Amazon as we know it over 6 million years to form

Claire Asher 7 Jun 2021

Can Biden’s 30×30 plan put U.S. on a positive conservation track?

Mike Gaworecki 3 Jun 2021

Hold the scuba: These lizards can breathe underwater

Mongabay.com 28 May 2021

In Pennsylvania, agroforestry holds a key to cleaning up waterways and Chesapeake Bay

Sarah Derouin 27 May 2021
Neotropical river otter by Sabrina Bettoni

Chirp, chuckle and growl: Neotropical river otters call out to communicate

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 2021

Belize’s Maya Forest Corridor a ‘missing link’ to giant rainforest reserve (commentary)

Jut Wynne 24 May 2021
Documentation of landcover and oil palm plantation development in PT Internusa Jaya Sejahtera (PT IJS), part of the Central Cipta Murdaya group, in April 2018. Photo credit: © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace

As illegal forest conversion for industrial ag worsens, this moment is pivotal (commentary)

Sam Lawson 20 May 2021

As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists

Charles Pekow 17 May 2021

In the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, an illegal road for cattle and drugs

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2021

‘Bad science’: Planting frenzy misses the grasslands for the trees

Shreya Dasgupta 12 May 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa 70% of the population lives from agriculture — and specifically rainfall agriculture.

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

Saul Elbein 10 May 2021
Redwood trees in California. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Biden lays out vision for protecting 30% of US land, waters by 2030

Mongabay.com 6 May 2021

NRA Video: Conquering nature will never be the silver bullet (commentary)

Kate Dylewsky 6 May 2021

The HFC challenge: Can the Montreal Protocol continue its winning streak?

Jane Palmer 5 May 2021

“How do we manage fisheries in the midst of climate change?” Q&A with EDF’s Eric Schwaab

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 May 2021

Drugs and agriculture cause deforestation to skyrocket at Honduran UNESCO site

Karen Paredes, Leonardo Guevara, Lesly Frazier 30 Apr 2021

Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary

Gloria Dickie 29 Apr 2021

Nuts about agroforestry in the U.S. Midwest: Can hazelnuts transform farming?

Sarah Derouin 28 Apr 2021
Sphere panoramic photo of redwoods in California. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The Nature Conservancy’s Jennifer Morris is an ‘impatient optimist’

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Apr 2021

Leaders make bold climate pledges, but is it ‘all just smoke and mirrors?’: Critics

Justin Catanoso 23 Apr 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Governments, companies pledge $1 billion for tropical forests

Aurora Solá, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2021

Fear not the bobcat (Commentary)

Mark Elbroch 23 Apr 2021

Some guitar makers in pursuit of sustainable manufacturing

Stephan Boissonneault 20 Apr 2021

With British Columbia’s last old-growth at risk, government falters: Critics

Justin Catanoso 20 Apr 2021

The U.S. reptile most at risk from rising seas is one you likely haven’t heard of

Marlowe Starling 20 Apr 2021

Skin in the game? Reptile leather trade embroils conservation authority

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Apr 2021

Did you know that northern tamanduas may eat up to 9,000 insects per day? Candid Animal Cam

Romina Castagnino 14 Apr 2021

Recognizing the true guardians of the forest: Q&A with David Kaimowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2021

An Amazonian arapaima washed up in a Florida river. It didn’t swim there

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Apr 2021

“Activism gives you hope”: Q&A with Wallace Global Fund’s Ellen Dorsey

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Apr 2021

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