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Sri Lanka to ban palm oil imports, raze plantations over environmental concerns

Malaka Rodrigo 9 May 2021

‘Profound ignorance’: Microbes, a missing piece in the biodiversity puzzle

Ian Morse 26 Apr 2021

Madagascar: Businesses drive disappearance of a wetland ‘reed forest’

Rivonala Razafison 31 Mar 2021

Study sounds latest warning of rainforest turning into savanna as climate warms

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Mar 2021

Hope blooms for an ‘extinct’ Sri Lankan tree that reemerged under threat

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Mar 2021

In Japan, scientists look to the past to save the future of grasslands

Marlowe Starling 8 Mar 2021

Big dream: NGO leads in creating 1,615-mile Amazon-Cerrado river greenbelt

Jenny Gonzales 17 Feb 2021

Fruit-eating, seed-pooping animals can help restore degraded forests

Emily Harwitz 9 Feb 2021
The Durmitor Mountains and the Tara River Canyon in Montenegro. Image by Pudelek (Marcin Szala) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Protesters hold back military takeover of Balkans’ largest mountain pasture

John Cannon 18 Jan 2021

Tropical forests can take the heat, study finds. Dryness? Not so much

Jennifer Ann Thomas 16 Dec 2020

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020
Pit Viper in striking mode. The 'mountain fer-de-lance' is a new species of pit viper that was discovered on the Zongo RAP survey. It has since been described as Bothrops monsignifer. Bothrops is a genus of pit vipers endemic to Central and South America. The generic name, Bothrops, is derived from the Greek words βόθρος, bothros, meaning "pit", and ώπς, ops, meaning "eye" or "face", together an allusion to the heat-sensitive loreal pit organs.

[Photos] Tiny frog, venomous viper among 20 new species described in Bolivia

Liz Kimbrough 14 Dec 2020

Podcast: Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar

Mike Gaworecki 11 Nov 2020
Victoria amazonica. © Sir Ghillean Prance

Amazon botanist Sir Ghillean Prance: ‘The environmental crisis is a moral one’

Rhett A. Butler 27 Oct 2020

On a Philippine mountain, researchers describe a ‘fire flower’ orchid species

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Oct 2020

When roads cross wilderness areas, plant pathogens can hitch a ride

Ian Morse 2 Oct 2020

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

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
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

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 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

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 A. 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

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

Sophie Chao 14 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
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

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