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Joanna Macy. Courtesy of the Macy family

Joanna Macy, author and teacher who turned despair into connection and agency

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2025
Mountain gorillas by Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo for Mongabay.

Mongabay staffer shares the joy and impact of wildlife photography

Mike DiGirolamo 30 Sep 2025
The Magpie River, known to the Indigenous Innu people as Mutehekau Shipu, in eastern Quebec, a region they know as Nitassinan. Image courtesy of Robert Macfarlane.

Some rivers have rights, but author Robert Macfarlane argues they’re also alive

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 24 Jun 2025
Blue dart frog. Image by Rhett Butler.

The currency of impact: Why nonprofit models might be the future of serious journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2025
Reserva Narupa, Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

Why the nonprofit newsroom model is vital to Mongabay’s impact

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Apr 2025

How ‘ecological empathy’ can help humans reconnect with nature and shape a better world

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 11 Mar 2025

Justice for people, animals and the environment are inextricable, Arcus Foundation says

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Jan 2025
Sunrise over the Pinipini river in the Amazon.

Former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres remains optimistic despite disappointing COP process

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 7 Jan 2025

HEATED: Challenging objectivity in climate journalism

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 13 Feb 2024
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
Lucero Vaca with a jaguar (Panthera onca). Photo courtesy of Lucero Vaca.

A rich person’s profession? Young conservationists struggle to make it

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2017

Can conservationists overcome their differences to save life on Earth?

Mongabay 7 Jun 2016

Epilogue: Conservation still divided, looking for a way forward

Jeremy Hance 24 May 2016

Conservation’s people problem

Jeremy Hance 17 May 2016

Conservation today, the old-fashioned way

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2016

How big donors and corporations shape conservation goals

Jeremy Hance 3 May 2016

Has big conservation gone astray?

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2016

Conservation, Divided: in-depth series starts Tuesday

Jeremy Hance 21 Apr 2016

Employing shame for environmental change

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2015

Why conservationists need a little hope: saving themselves from becoming the most depressing scientists on the planet

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2014

Predator appreciation: how saving lions, tigers, and polar bears could rescue ourselves

Gabriel Thoumi 29 Jan 2014

Butchering nature’s titans: without the elephant ‘we lose an essential pillar in the ability to wonder’

Jeremy Hance 12 Sep 2013

How Tarzan created Jane Goodall and how Goodall then repaid the favor

Shawn Thompson 2 Sep 2013

Featured video: how tigers could save human civilization

Jeremy Hance 29 Aug 2013

Coming to terms with the evil Jane Goodall and the mystery of the dragonfly incident

Shawn Thompson 4 Aug 2013

Scientists: if we don’t act now we’re screwed

Jeremy Hance 7 Jun 2012

Doing good and staying sane amidst the global environmental crisis

Ryan King 23 Apr 2012

For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how to make a better world

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2012

Cinderella animals: endangered species that could be conservation stars

Jeremy Hance 18 Apr 2012

Earth First! activist Nathan Coe: radical cultural shifts required to stave off ecological collapse

Ryan King 21 Feb 2012

Black Swans and bottom-up environmental action

Ryan King 8 Feb 2012

Cara Hoffman: Direct action is ‘the only real solution’ to environmental problems

Ryan King 20 Dec 2011

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