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A Philippine tribe’s plant-based medical tradition gets its moment

Bong S. Sarmiento 2 Oct 2020
Mycena haematopus (Burgundydrop Bonnet)

World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2020

Solomon Islands environmental defender faces life sentence for arson charge

Louise Hunt 18 Sep 2020

Fires turn sage brush habitat in Washington into a scorched ‘oblivion’

Ashley Ahearn 18 Sep 2020

Missing mangroves are root of contention over Philippine airport project

Leilani Chavez, Susan Claire Agbayani 17 Sep 2020

Are red pandas related to panda bears? Candid Animal Cam meets the furry red creature

Romina Castagnino 15 Sep 2020
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Latin America has twice the plant life of Africa, SE Asia

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2020

Ex-Wall Street ‘quant’ wields data to replant charred Madagascar rainforests

Erica Tennenhouse 31 Aug 2020

Lockdown should have cleared up Jakarta’s air. Coal plants kept it dirty

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2020

Fight rages on to save centuries-old giant Philippine rosewood tree

Bong S. Sarmiento 26 Aug 2020
a tree fern savanna in the Cromwell Mountains of Papua New Guinea courtesy of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Study revealing New Guinea’s plant life ‘first step’ toward protection

John Cannon 25 Aug 2020

Pioneer study maps regions of Amazon tree flora and may help in future efforts at species conservation

Jenny Gonzales 13 Aug 2020

Illegal plant trade, tourism threaten new Philippine flowering herbs

Keith Anthony Fabro 13 Aug 2020

Climate change could put tropical plant germination at risk: Study

Claire Asher 12 Aug 2020
This local guide located a Rhododendron in bloom in the Cromwell Mountains of Papua New Guinea. Credit RBG Kew

New Guinea has the most plant species of any island

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2020

Amazonia’s people domesticated crops on ‘forest islands’ 10,000 years ago: Study

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2020

In Sri Lanka, a South American flower usurps a tree sacred to Buddhists and Hindus

Malaka Rodrigo 27 Jul 2020

Bubbles, lasers and robo-bees: The blossoming industry of artificial pollination

Liz Kimbrough 24 Jul 2020

‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua (commentary)

Sophie Chao 14 Jul 2020

How Mexican communities are helping to save a fir forest

Agustín del Castillo 7 Jul 2020

Treetop cameras capture first known video of a wild roloway monkey

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jul 2020

38 endangered Brazilian tree species legally traded, poorly tracked: Study

Jenny Gonzales 18 Jun 2020

From a Philippine conflict hotspot, a new insect-eating plant emerges

Elizabeth Fitt 17 Jun 2020

In Hawai’i, researchers work to slow the rapid death of a beloved tree

Shannon Brown 5 Jun 2020
Elephant digging at a baobab tree in Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa, to get to the moisture-rich interior. Since at least 2015, there has been a prolonged drought across Southern Africa. Image by Nathalie Bertrams for Mongabay.

They survived centuries of elephant onslaught. Now climate change is killing these iconic baobabs

Tristen Taylor and Nathalie Bertrams 29 May 2020

Land scarcity and disease threaten a multifaceted indigenous crop in Ethiopia

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 19 May 2020

As habitat degradation threatens Amazon species, one region offers hope

Taran Volckhausen 14 May 2020

‘It was like a church’: Ecuador’s Kichwa community mourns death of sacred tree

Johnny Magdaleno 8 May 2020

From a Sri Lankan rainforest, a new species of orchid blooms

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 1 May 2020
Flowering rainforest tree in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Colombia wants to plant 180 million trees: Is it a realistic goal?

Antonio José Paz Cardona 23 Apr 2020

What one of the world’s most active volcanoes tells us about missing trees

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Apr 2020

A third of Peru’s La Pampa forest cleared for illegal mining ponds, study finds

Yvette Sierra Praeli 2 Apr 2020

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