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Pacific Island nations propose ecocide be adopted as international crime

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Sep 2024
A yellow oriental paper wasp (Polistes olivaceus)

Bats & bees help ni-Vanuatu predict storms — but will climate change interfere?

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 10 Sep 2024
Clown fish in anemone

The ocean ‘belongs to all of us’: Interview with Palau President Whipps

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Sep 2024
A school of barracuda in Papua New Guinea.

Not merely ‘exploration’: PNG deep-sea mining riles critics & surprises officials

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Sep 2024

Sea lions with video cameras help scientists map ocean floor

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Aug 2024

Recently hatched baby skate offers hope for endangered Tasman species

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2024
The ocean

Cloud brightening over oceans may stave off climate change, but with risk

Sean Mowbray 12 Aug 2024

Rare mutant blue-skinned frog spotted in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jul 2024
A little bronze-cuckoo (Chrysococcyx minutillus). Image by Graham Winterflood via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

‘Masters of deception’ cuckoos evolving into new species

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2024
Goondoi rangers performing a traditional dance at Etty Bay Beach.

Shaping the next generation of Indigenous rangers: Interview with Manni Edwards

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 18 Jul 2024

Frog ‘saunas’ may help threatened frogs fight off deadly fungus

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2024
Lupine flowers in sunshine in Milford Sound, New Zealand. Image by Aneta Hartmannová via Unsplash.

Is ‘legal personhood’ a tool or a distraction for Māori relationships with nature?

Monica Evans 8 Jul 2024
Musicians at a 2019 ceremony marking a three-month rāhui closure of the bonefish fishery in Anaa Atoll.

French Polynesians revive traditional rāhui to protect fish — and livelihoods

Amélie David 4 Jul 2024
Coral reefs seen along the coast in an aerial photo.

New approach to restore coral reefs on mass scale kicks off in Hawai‘i

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jun 2024
An abandoned mining truck in Pilbara.

Study: More than half of Australia’s clean energy mines lie on Indigenous land

Aimee Gabay 24 Jun 2024
He‘eia fishpond.

Restoring Indigenous aquaculture heals both ecosystems and communities in Hawai‘i

Keona Blanks 5 Jun 2024
A rainbow lorikeet

Indigenous people and NGO grow a wildlife corridor in the world’s oldest rainforest

Claire Turrell 30 May 2024
Alson Kelen on a U.S. airstrip runway. Image by Mark Klett/Cape Farewell.

Marshallese worries span decades — first nuclear tests, now sea-level rise

Amélie David 29 May 2024
A koala.

Australian state fails on koala conservation while relying on faulty offset schemes, experts say

Mike DiGirolamo 28 May 2024
A shark in French Polynesia.

18 years on, how are sharks faring in French Polynesia’s shark sanctuary?

Amélie David 24 May 2024
oriental pied hornbill

New database unveils the role of Asian hornbills as forest seed dispersers

Carolyn Cowan 15 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

Bioacoustics and AI help scientists listen in on elusive Australian cockatoos

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Apr 2024

Goldman Prize Winner Murrawah Johnson says First Nations must be at the forefront of creating change

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Apr 2024

Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2024
Fluorescing and bleached reef in New Caledonia in 2016.

Global coral bleaching now underway looks set to be largest on record

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Apr 2024
A flame bowerbird (Sericulus ardens) in PNG.

Conservationists welcome new PNG Protected Areas Act — but questions remain

Spoorthy Raman 12 Apr 2024
Informal logging road

Unseen and unregulated: ‘Ghost’ roads carve up Asia-Pacific tropical forests

Carolyn Cowan 11 Apr 2024

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Apr 2024

In Raja Ampat, pearl farming balances business and ecological sustainability

Basten Gokkon 22 Mar 2024
The helmet jellyfish (Periphylla periphylla) collected with a remotely operated vehicle in the North Pacific Ocean.

Communities worry anew as PNG revives seabed mining plans

John Cannon 20 Mar 2024
Flowers of Scaevola parvifolia

Traditional Aboriginal fire practices can help promote plant diversity: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 13 Mar 2024

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