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In Suriname’s Amazon, the Wayana community struggling to keep gold miners at bay

Maxwell Radwin 29 Oct 2026
A giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)

Between revered and hunted: The journey of human-otter coexistence in the Amazon

Sarah Brown 29 Oct 2026
A tiny sampling of tropical beetle diversity displayed at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. Image by H. Zell/CC 3.0.

If we don’t start counting insect populations, we won’t know what we’re losing (commentary)

Prayan Pokharel 29 Oct 2026
Visiting area of the Véu de Noiva waterfall in Cantá, Roraima.

‘Already feeling it’: Northern Amazon waterfall season ends early, hurting livelihoods

Felipe Medeiros 29 Oct 2026

Investigations into Singapore palm oil firm find family ties to Borneo deforesters

Robin Hicks 29 Oct 2026
A dry canal in the Air Merah community forest area.

Early tech warning hopes to give Sumatra’s peat community a head start on fires

Teguh Suprayitno 29 Oct 2026
A fisher with an outboard motor on Pemba island, Tanzania. Image courtesy of Adrian Ponsard/WCS.

‘Design conservation with those who will live with it’: 30 by 30 in Africa

Sasha Nunneley 29 Oct 2026
Burned forest area in Mozambique's Zambézia province. Image by Far Vubil.

Fires and weak monitoring hinder reforestation efforts in Mozambique

Far Vubil 29 Oct 2026
At the beach, Pemba Island. Image courtesy of Adrian Ponsard/WCS.

Pemba’s new marine protected areas show the power of collaboration to meet 30×30 goal

Sasha Nunneley 29 Oct 2026

Fishers in eastern Indonesia struggle as rough seas keep them ashore

Basten Gokkon 29 Oct 2026
Clouded leopard

‘Action on the ground’ in Laos is needed to recover large mammals, protect more species

Carolyn Cowan 29 Oct 2026
A koala.

‘Historic win’: Australian state approves national koala park despite controversial funding

Paul Harvey 29 Oct 2026
A watercolor by the Indigenous Wayana, Aimawale Opoya.

Suriname’s rich archaeological history may hold keys to conservation

Peter Speetjens 28 Oct 2026
Stoke Park in Guildford.

A town-wide ‘living laboratory’ shows how green spaces can combat climate extremes

Claudia Geib 28 Oct 2026
Bernie Krause on St. Vincent Island, Florida in 2003. Photo by Tim Chapman

Why I sent my archive of nature’s sounds to France (commentary)

Bernie Krause 28 Oct 2026
Wildfires are devastating, but fire can also be a rejuvenating force for many organisms and landscapes.

As wildfires rage, Canadian researchers study the life that comes after

Anna Dulisse 28 Oct 2026
Md. Mizan Mia, a resident of Katanishar village of Sarail subdistrict, calms his 9-month-old female Sarail hound at his residence. Image by Kamran Reza Chowdhury.

A rare hound with a storied past faces an uncertain future in Bangladesh

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 28 Oct 2026
Lucy Mulenkei was among those who had worked to get the new body over the line. A Masai leader from Kenya, Mulenkei is co-chair of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity. Image by Mark Hillsdon/Mongabay.

‘A proper seat at the table’: Lucy Mulenkei on Indigenous decision-making at the COP17 biodiversity summit

Mark Hillsdon 28 Oct 2026
Eurasian Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) at Kalaibiami I, Rivers state, Nigeria. Image © Adedotun Ajibade via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

As the sea swallows a Nigerian community, migratory bird habitat disappears

Amir Sadiq 28 Oct 2026
Sunda pangolin

Pangolin scale lawsuit in Indonesia could shake up how wildlife traffickers pay

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026
Copper mine in Chile. Image by Tom Hegen

Photographer Tom Hegen’s aerial eye reveals the true scale of the critical mineral age

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026
Kashmiri shepherd girls walk back home after collecting water from nearby spring in Tosamaidan, southwest of Srinagar, 2021.

Kashmir’s springs are drying up. Scientists say saving them starts uphill

Hashim Quraishi 27 Oct 2026
A vendor in Pakistan pushes his cart through smog in Lahore

In Pakistan’s Punjab, toxic air threatens wildlife amid a monitoring blind spot

Muhammad Talal 27 Oct 2026
Over the past century, humanity has invented thousands of novel chemicals.

Global framework urgently needed to assess emerging health risks of novel chemicals, experts say

Claire Asher 27 Oct 2026
A file photo shows a green sea turtle on a coral reef in Tañon Strait, a protected seascape between the Philippine islands of Negros and Cebu. Image courtesy of Tañon Strait Philippines.

The Philippine lawyer who beat an oil giant: Rose Liza Eisma-Osorio on defending Tañon Strait

Maverick Avila 27 Oct 2026

Five new mussel species reveal how much biodiversity US rivers still conceal

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2026
A thick haze obscures the skyline behind the Central Business District area in Singapore, Oct. 9, 2026.

‘Influence without enforcement’: Indonesia’s fires test Singapore’s anti-haze law

Gabrielle See 27 Oct 2026
Robson Mura, of the Mura Indigenous community, watches the sunrise at the Moyray village in Autazes, Amazonas state, February 2025.

Canadian-backed potash mine in Brazil has dried up sacred Amazon springs, say residents

Aimee Gabay 26 Oct 2026
Man in Colombia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A rare victory for multilateralism in the fight against environmental crime (commentary)

Laura Waisbich, Melina Risso, Robert Muggah 26 Oct 2026
Manaus woke up shrouded in smoke on Oct 17. In the background, the Negro River is barely visible on the horizon. Image courtesy of Juliana Pesqueira/Amazônia Real.

Amazon fires trap Manaus in smoke as authorities target arsonists

Tiago da Mota e Silva 26 Oct 2026
An elephant in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

At Yerevan’s COP17 biodiversity summit, a steep climb ahead for ‘30 by 30’ target

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Oct 2026
Internally displaced persons installing solar panels at a health center in northwestern Cameroon as part of the “Solar Bright Future” program. Image courtesy of Lokamitraa Tokala, Outreach and Partnerships Officer with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Action Campaign, an initiative of the UNDP.

Solar initiative brings power to clinics and jobs to displaced youths in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 26 Oct 2026

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