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Palm trees, which make up 20% of the trees in the Amazon, grow mixed among various tree and grass species in the southern Peruvian Amazon lowlands of Manu National Park.

Novel research finds unexpected climate resilience in up to 36% of Amazon forest

Justin Catanoso 10 Apr 2026
Fishers in Dunga on the shores of Lake Victoria. Image by Achieng’ Otieno for Mongabay.

On the shores of Lake Victoria, a youth-led campaign to revive a wetland

Achieng’ Otieno 9 Apr 2026
A fan mussel (Pinna nobilis) in a Neptune grass meadow. Image by Arnaud Abadie via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

A French city cut its marine pollution — and its seagrass bounced back

Edward Carver 7 Apr 2026

Microplastics found in fish in Tuvalu, a remote South Pacific nation

David Brown 7 Apr 2026
Vietnamese activists hold a photo of dead fish, allegedly killed with toxic chemicals, during a protest to urge Formosa Plastics Group to take responsibilities for the cleanup in Vietnam, August 2016, in Taipei, Taiwan.

10 years after Vietnam’s Formosa steel plant spill, justice for victims remains elusive

Hướng Thiện 6 Apr 2026
Agroforestry in Ethiopia. Image by Trees ForTheFuture via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Who gives up land for the world’s climate fixes?

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Apr 2026

Thai court rules gold mine liable, but villagers face uncertain justice

Kannikar Petchkaew 1 Apr 2026
Cymodocea nodosa seagrass in Spain, also known as Little Neptune grass. Restoring and protecting seagrass can have climate and coastal protection benefits. Image courtesy of Liam McGuire/Ocean Image Bank.

The underwater meadows that help keep beaches from disappearing

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2026
A dinghy used to sample the lake. Image courtesy of Travis W. Drake.

‘Ancient’ carbon venting from lakes in the Congo Basin peatlands: Study

John Cannon 31 Mar 2026
Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) mother and calf as seen from the air. Image by Christin Khan NOAA/NEFSC via Wikimedia. (CC BY-SA 4.0).

With high seas treaty in place, West African countries plan for protected area

Victoria Schneider 31 Mar 2026
Guasimas Bay has been contaminated by agrochemicals and waste that is released from shrimp farms not far from the coast.

Who controls Mexico’s Yaqui River?

30 Mar 2026
A gemsbok (Oryx gazella), also known as the South African oryx, in a mixed herd of herbivores at Tswalu. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

A South African reserve shows how carbon can catalyze rewilding conservation

John Cannon 27 Mar 2026
Lubumbashi River, at the level of the Kalubwe bridge, where significant fish mortality was reported in November 2025. Image by Ruth Kutemba.

4 months after DRC mine spill, residents remain impacted

Ruth Kutemba, Elodie Toto 26 Mar 2026

Compost, racoons and sea turtle predation in Costa Rica

Bobby Bascomb 25 Mar 2026
Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) nest made largely of plastic debris. Image courtesy of Martin Brogger.

Seabird nests built with plastic waste off the coast of Germany: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 25 Mar 2026

As Sri Lankans choke on bad air, authorities cite transboundary pollution

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 25 Mar 2026
Occupation of Funai’s Altamira branch. Image courtesy of the Medio Xingu Indigenous Women’s Movement.

Indigenous groups demand halt to Belo Sun Amazon gold mine

Shanna Hanbury 23 Mar 2026
Trash bags full of discarded plastic. Image by Adil Edin via Unsplash (Public domain).

Huge amounts of nanoplastics discovered in tap and bottled water

Shanna Hanbury 23 Mar 2026
Lake Victoria in Kenya. Image by Jozef020 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

World Water Day: Earth’s freshwater reveals new species & faces mounting threats

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2026
Fish on a beach in New Ireland province. Image ©Sebastian Velasquez.

PNG’s New Ireland coastal waters causing fish deaths, human sickness

John Cannon 20 Mar 2026
A Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) ship.

Shipping’s biofuel gamble could deepen Africa’s land squeeze and food insecurity (commentary)

Susan Chomba, Million Belay 20 Mar 2026

Should potentially harmful chemicals be appraised by class, not one at a time?

Liz Kimbrough 19 Mar 2026

New mapping data show where oil blocks threaten Venezuela’s protected areas

Maxwell Radwin 19 Mar 2026

Investigation links DRC air pollution concerns to major copper-cobalt plant

Elodie Toto 19 Mar 2026
The noise from dredges and large vessels may interfere with the Amazon river turtle’s communication. Image courtesy of Camila Ferrara/WCS Brasil.

Amazon waterway noise threatens unique social life of giant river turtles

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Mar 2026
A dairy cow in a farm in the Netherlands.

The Dutch Nitrogen Crisis

Mongabay.com 16 Mar 2026

Glyphosate found in South African baby cereal; watchdog group calls for ban

Elodie Toto 16 Mar 2026
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Forest advocates accuse EU energy firm of Dutch biomass certification fraud

Justin Catanoso 13 Mar 2026

Oil patch appears after IRIS Dena sinking in Sri Lanka; origins still unverified

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 13 Mar 2026
Corals in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Reefs in Florida and elsewhere in the world face many threats including heat waves (which causes coral bleaching), diseases like stony coral tissue loss disease, invasive species, pollution, physical damage and more.

If Florida reefs aren’t protected, storms will increase flooding & costs: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 12 Mar 2026
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station.

Rush to put AI data centers in space poses poorly understood dangers

Sean Mowbray 11 Mar 2026

Towering lava fountains of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano trigger park and highway closures

Associated Press 11 Mar 2026

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