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One of the roughly 1,300 sacred Nara deer seen close up.

Messengers of the gods: Nara’s ‘sacred’ deer at a conservation crossroads

Annelise Giseburt 22 May 2024

As populations grow, how will thirsty cities survive their drier futures?

Petro Kotzé 18 Aug 2021

Humanity’s ‘ecological Ponzi scheme’ sets up bleak future, scientists warn

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Jan 2021

David Attenborough’s ‘witness statement’ for the planet (commentary)

Matt Hayward 27 Oct 2020
Fires burning in the Amazon on August 17 next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Labrea, Amazonas state. Felled forests are intentionally lit in the Amazon to clear land for cattle ranching. Photo by: Christian Braga / Greenpeace

The best news of 2020? Humanity may never hit the 10 billion mark

Jeremy Hance 10 Sep 2020
NASA Landsat image of agriculture in the Nevada desert.

Population and consumption: challenges we can win (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 20 Jul 2020

Our growing footprint, wildlife extinctions, and the importance of contraception (commentary)

Sarah Baillie 28 Jan 2020

The view from the bottleneck: Is nature poised for a big comeback?

Jeremy Hance 18 Feb 2019

The tropics are in trouble, warn scientists

Rhett A. Butler 14 Aug 2018

Rwandan people and mountain gorillas face changing climate together

Elham Shabahat 27 Jun 2018

‘Adaptation Bangladesh: Sea Level Rise’ film shows how farmers are fighting climate change

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2018

IUCN, UN, global NGOs, likely to see major budget cuts under Trump

Sean Mowbray 8 Jan 2018
Men and women spend hours sowing rice seedlings and ploughing the land. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

To feed a growing population, farms chew away at Madagascar’s forests

Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor 17 Nov 2017

Trump family planning policy may increase population, hurt women and environment

Tina Deines 10 Nov 2017

Trump budget undercuts U.S. commitment to global wildlife conservation

William H. Funk 30 Oct 2017

Pursuing a decent life for all on a sustainable planet (commentary)

Michael Painter and David Wilkie 18 Sep 2017

Why we can’t lose hope: Dr. David Suzuki speaks out

Glenn Scherer 11 Sep 2017

On poaching in South Africa, education “has saved more wildlife than any guard with a gun”

Justin Catanoso 13 Jul 2017

Kiribati confronts climate upheaval by preparing for ‘migration with dignity’

Kayla Walsh 11 Jul 2017

Government action needed on climate resiliency and food security in West Africa

Lillie Howell 19 May 2017

Climate change driving widespread local extinctions; tropics most at risk

Claire Salisbury 9 Mar 2017

E.O. Wilson on Half-Earth, Donald Trump, and hope

Jeremy Hance 17 Jan 2017

A dam shame: the plight of the Mekong giant catfish

Claire Asher 30 Nov 2016

Climate change pledges not nearly enough to save tropical ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2016

Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia’s Almost Famous Animals

Laurel Neme 6 Jul 2016

Conservation and birth control: a controversial mix?

Roz Evans 14 Mar 2016

Human impacts are ‘decoupling’ coral reef ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2015

Without draconian measures, global population boom is ‘locked in’

Chris Cesare 1 Dec 2014

World population could surpass 13 BILLION by the end of the century

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2014

Booming populations, rising economies, threatened biodiversity: the tropics will never be the same

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2014

Unrelenting population growth driving global warming, mass extinction

Jeremy Hance 26 Jun 2014

Over 75 percent of large predators declining

Jeremy Hance 9 Jan 2014

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