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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
A wild giant otter with a discarded single-use plastic bottle.

U.N. parties are worlds apart on plastics treaty solutions

Charles Pekow 27 Apr 2023
North Pacific right whales south of Kodiak Island, Alaska, 2021. Image captured by scientists working under NOAA permit 20465.

How do you study one of the world’s rarest whales?

Dana Wright 25 Apr 2023

Report warns of rising violence against environmental defenders in Mexico

Maxwell Radwin 21 Apr 2023
Setting a prescribed fire around vernal pools at Agate Desert Preserve. Image courtesy of Evan Barrientos/TNC.

Counterintuitive conservation: Fire boosts aquatic crustaceans in U.S. savannas

Ashli Blow 21 Apr 2023

Pumas create nutrient-rich ‘kill gardens’ to attract prey: Study

Liz Kimbrough 17 Apr 2023

Bankrolling biodiversity: How are private philanthropists investing in nature?

Daniel Pye 14 Apr 2023

Mexico kills climate change fund, casting doubt on future environmental spending

Maxwell Radwin 13 Apr 2023
"Deregulated" depicts men in suits playing in a children’s playground as part of a series of sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor installed in the sea near the Canary Islands.

Is there a ‘lighter side’ to our possible environmental apocalypse? (commentary)

David Helvarg 12 Apr 2023
Rio Tinto company logo on helmet.

After 150 years of damage to people and planet, Rio Tinto ‘must be held to account’ (commentary)

Saul Jones 5 Apr 2023
A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Monarch butterflies become a powerful symbol for justice at the U.S./Mexico border (commentary)

Meg Perret 31 Mar 2023

Mexico’s Tren Maya hotel construction clears forest reserve without permits

Maxwell Radwin 29 Mar 2023

‘Hope is action.’ David Suzuki retires into a life of determined activism

Richard Schiffman 28 Mar 2023
Atlantic blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) caught in Italy.

Can we control marine invaders by eating them?

Guia Baggi 23 Mar 2023
Boundbrook Farm's agroecology system for growing rice relies on mulard (French for ‘mule-like’), a hybrid, non-fertile duck, to control weed growth and provide fertilizer, eliminating the use of pesticides or other chemicals. The ducks are released into the paddies about seven to ten days after the rice seedlings are transplanted, allowing time for the roots to take hold. Image courtesy of Boundbrook Farm.

Duck, duck, rice: Vermont farm models diverse method of raising sustainable grains

Cheryl Perusse Daigle 22 Mar 2023
A swimming cougar in British Columbia.

Island-hopping cougars redraw boundaries of big cats’ potential range

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Mar 2023
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

In Calakmul, water troughs offer possible solution to human-wildlife conflict

Sean Mowbray 22 Mar 2023

Deforestation on the rise in Quintana Roo, Mexico, as Mennonite communities move in

Robin Canul, VALERIA CONTRERAS 15 Mar 2023
Jake Strouf and his wife were driving in the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge when they got the rare sighting of ocelots crossing the road. Image courtesy of Jake Strouf.

In South Texas, watch out for ocelots crossing roads (commentary)

Sharon Wilcox 13 Mar 2023
A humpback whale.

Indigenous funding model is a win-win for ecosystems and local economies in Canada

Spoorthy Raman 10 Mar 2023

Chinese investment continues to hurt Latin American ecosystems, report says

Maxwell Radwin 28 Feb 2023
Frozen albacore tuna on a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. grocery chains flunk sustainability, human rights tests for tuna sourcing

Monica Evans 21 Feb 2023
Moringa stenopetala is a tree originally domesticated by Ethiopian and Kenyan farmers for its highly nutritious leaves. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Trees with edible leaves can boost human nutrition: New book, free download

Erik Hoffner 15 Feb 2023
People in San Juan Raya decided to join a research project to grow agave for mezcal sustainably. Image by Noel Rojo for Mongabay.

Amid global mezcal craze, scientists and communities try out sustainable plantations

Magdaléna Rojo 10 Feb 2023
The Javari River where it forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Brazil-U.S. cooperation is key for global forest conservation (commentary)

John Reid and Paulo Moutinho 9 Feb 2023

The illegal jaguar trade is thriving online. Why aren’t governments stopping it?

Maxwell Radwin 2 Feb 2023
A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Western monarch populations reach highest number in decades

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jan 2023

Study identifies priority forests in Oregon for max conservation benefit

Liz Kimbrough 24 Jan 2023
A U.S. agroforestry based farm shows rows of perennial shrubs and trees with annual crops growing between. Photo courtesy of the Savanna Institute.

‘One of our greatest climate solutions’: Q&A with the U.S. National Agroforestry Center’s new director

Sarah Derouin 19 Jan 2023
Sanjiv is a male Sumatran tiger who has arrived at a captive breeding center in Tacoma, Washington. Photo by Katie Cotterill for Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Sanjiv.

Sumatran tiger arrives at Tacoma captive-breeding program

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2023
The author poses/hides in a mangrove at low tide. Image by Morgan Erickson-Davis.

Top mangrove news of 2022

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Dec 2022

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