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Malaysia renews Lynas Rare Earths’ license for 10 years, orders end to radioactive waste by 2031

Associated Press 3 Mar 2026

Senegal GTA gas project draws international scrutiny

Elodie Toto 27 Feb 2026
Aerial view as a ship sails through the sea ice in the winter.

Petrostates stymie effort to rein in Arctic shipping carbon emissions

Sean Mowbray 23 Feb 2026
A woman standing in a street carries a basin filled with a colourful variety of plastic bottles while in the background there are busy stalls and shoppers in the street. Image by Elliot Ovadje via Flickr.

Recycling startups test limits of private solutions to deluge of waste in Lagos

Abdulwaheed Sofiullahi 20 Feb 2026

New study assesses geoengineering marine ecosystem risks, knowledge gaps

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 Feb 2026

Peru mining pollution linked to children’s cognitive impairment: Study

Aimee Gabay 18 Feb 2026
Paicines Ranch

From chemistry to regeneration: Agriculture’s next transformation has begun (commentary)

Sallie Calhoun 17 Feb 2026
At work in NatCarbon's spekboom nursery.

UN recognition is latest boost to restoring spekboom across South Africa’s semidesert Karoo

Joe Walsh 17 Feb 2026

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ are falling in North Atlantic whales after phaseout

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Feb 2026
A caddisfly in the Oligotricha genus.

Insects are moving pharmaceutical pollutants from rivers to land; risks unknown

Sean Mowbray 13 Feb 2026
A firefighter puts out fires in a peatland in Indonesia.

Thousands of peat fires flare across Indonesia despite rainy season

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2026

Pilot projects aim to break Indonesia’s habit of burning household waste

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Feb 2026
Toby Kiers co-founded the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) where researchers are working to identify and map underground mycorrhizal fungal networks.

Mapping underground fungal networks: Interview with SPUN’s Toby Kiers

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Feb 2026

Indonesia’s steel expansion risks a surge in greenhouse gas emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Feb 2026
African penguins at a beach in Simon's Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Unidentified oil washes up on South African beaches

Victoria Schneider 10 Feb 2026
Across Kep province, fishing communities fear the Funan Techo Canal will see them lose their homes on land and their livelihoods at sea. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodia’s canal mega-project threatens coastal communities and marine life

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 10 Feb 2026
Loggerhead turtle swimming around fish aggregation device (FAD) belonging to the Ecuadorean purse seiner 'Ingalapagos', which was documented by Greenpeace in the vicinity of the northern Galapagos Islands.

Abandoned tuna-fishing devices pollute the Galápagos Marine Reserve

Marlowe Starling 9 Feb 2026
Soil-dwelling springtails - tiny, insect-like arthropods of the class Collembola - are vulnerable to pesticides. Image by Alandmanson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Pesticides found in 70% of European soils, harming beneficial life: Study

Liz Kimbrough 6 Feb 2026
Open burning of plastic in a community in Guiyu, China. This practice is fast becoming a common way to dispose of plastic and other waste.

Plastic household waste burned as fuel on rise in Global South, risking health

Sean Mowbray 5 Feb 2026

Malaysia bans e-waste imports, vows to end illegal dumping

Associated Press 5 Feb 2026
Coral reef, Tioman Island

Malaysia lost 20% of its coral reefs in three years

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Feb 2026
Coastline of Big Sur in California. In 2013, a group of researchers found eggs of California condors in the coastal redwoods of Big Sur contaminated with DDT, even though the pesticide has been banned in the U.S. since 1972. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Writer Megan Mayhew Bergman on science, emotion, and the lasting power of ‘Silent Spring’

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Feb 2026

Lower levels of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in North Atlantic whales show regulations work: Study

Liz Kimbrough 3 Feb 2026

Peru to invest $7.6 billion to continue critical minerals extraction

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jan 2026

New data highlight Peru’s growing oil and gas footprint in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 30 Jan 2026
A root nodule on a legume tree

‘Blew us away’: Researchers find nitrogen boost spurs faster tropical forest growth

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 Jan 2026
A woman uses a new cookstove in the village of Bang in the North region of Cameroon.

Cameroon cookstove project looks to slow forest loss

Leocadia Bongben 30 Jan 2026
The Dayak Bahau community in Long Isun expresses its complaint. Image courtesy of Accountability Counsel.

World Bank carbon program risks further infringing upon rights of Indonesian Indigenous community (commentary)

Fuat Edi Kurniawan, Sadar Ginting, Anna Christi Suwardi 28 Jan 2026
Rainim Purba gives a speech and attempts to climb a fence during a protest urging the ministry of environment to revoke PT DPM’s environmental permit in Jakarta, May 2025.

The long struggle of women farmers to halt a zinc mine in North Sumatra

Tonggo Simangunsong 26 Jan 2026
A file photo of the Wakashio shipwreck from 2020. Image by imo.un via

More than 5 years after Wakashio oil spill, questions linger in Mauritius

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jan 2026

In Brazil, planting forests for carbon credits could help ecosystem restoration

Constance Malleret 23 Jan 2026
Soil microbes. Invisible to the naked eye, microbial communities play a huge role in planetary processes, such as nutrient cycling, and are vital to ecosystem and human health.

IUCN launches group to conserve at-risk microbes vital to life on Earth

Sean Mowbray 21 Jan 2026

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