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Plant species used in the experiment with dark earth, including paricá and pink ipê.

Dark earth: Ancient Amazonian soil can boost forest restoration, study finds

Evanildo da Silveira 8 Jul 2026
48758842257_1f2ee7e507_k.jpg Drug-resistant infections remain a top global public health threat, leading to around 5 million deaths worldwide each year. Recent research suggests that microplastic pollution is accelerating the development of resistant bacteria. Image by DFID – UK Department for International Development via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Microplastic pollution can fuel rise in antibiotic resistance, studies find

Claire Asher 8 Jul 2026
A native Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Image courtesy of Jay Fleming via National Park Service.

Like wolves, non-native lake trout have radically altered Yellowstone ecosystems (commentary)

Lyle Lewis 8 Jul 2026
A hooded vulture landing on its roost in Lagos.

Confronting culture to protect vultures: Interview with Nigeria’s Michael Williams

Kingsley Charles 8 Jul 2026
Indigenous peoples sing and dance as they participate in an opening ceremony as part of the People's Summit offsite from the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 12, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. Image by AP Photo/Fernando Llano.

A fraction of promised climate money reaches Amazon communities: Interview with Latimpacto’s leaders

Beverley Choo 8 Jul 2026
A worker disinfects himself at the Evangelical Medical Center in Bunia, DRC. Image by Prosper Heri Ngorora.

Clinical trials begin in DRC epicenter of Bundibugyo strain of Ebola

Prosper Heri Ngorora 8 Jul 2026
Anti-poaching officers and Forest rangers in Pu Mat

‘A targeted, data-driven approach’: Interview with Vietnam’s antipoaching unit

Campbell Rusden 7 Jul 2026
A pineapple sea cucumber (Thelenota ananas).

Illegal fishing takes a toll on Australia’s sea cucumbers

Madeline Shaw 7 Jul 2026
Patches of deforested land observed from the air within the Kakataibo Indigenous Reserve. Image courtesy of AIDESEP.

Roads, loggers close in on an unprotected refuge for isolated Kakataibo

Aimee Gabay 7 Jul 2026

In AI race, Indigenous values could guide environmental issues, researchers suggest

Shradha Triveni 7 Jul 2026
A group of fishers upon returning from a fishing trip in the port of Mosteiros on Fogo Island. Image by Alice Pistolesi for Mongabay.

Cabo Verde program and its fishers have been protecting the sea for 10 years

Alice Pistolesi, Monica Pelliccia 7 Jul 2026
Yellow-billed kites are found across Africa and play an important role in keeping ecosystems healthy as one of the most common scavengers.

Belief-based use increasing threat to yellow-billed kite, an important African scavenger

Sean Mowbray 7 Jul 2026
Community members collect plastic waste during a beach cleanup organized by COMRED on Kenya’s coast. Image courtesy of COMRED.

‘The only possible transition is a just transition’: Interview with WEF’s Clemence Schmid

Jackson Ambole Okata 7 Jul 2026
Himalayan Pangolin, Manis aurita museum speciment

Himalayan pangolin emerges as distinct species, 189 years after first described

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Jul 2026
Maria Laura.

María Laura Tolmos, 37, turned a childhood in the Amazon into her life’s work

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Jul 2026

The women leading a quiet conservation revolution in a Nigerian gorilla sanctuary

Orji Sunday 6 Jul 2026
A greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus), pictured here in France.

War reveals the isolation of Iran’s scientists

John Cannon 6 Jul 2026
Humpback whales in French Polynesian waters. The intensity and duration of marine heat waves could have widespread effects on marine biodiversity, increasing the likelihood of species displacement and mortality. Image by Toby Matthews / Ocean Image Bank.

Listen to whales to improve connection, care & ocean health (commentary)

David Gruber, Sylvia Earle 6 Jul 2026

Brazil’s expanding offshore oil frontier puts biodiversity at risk: study

Daniel Shailer 6 Jul 2026
A spiny babbler (Turdoides nipalensis), the only bird species endemic to Nepal.

Nepal’s birdwatchers help monitor wildlife and promote tourism

Bibek Bhandari 6 Jul 2026
Women's support group in Southeast Asia.

In Southeast Asia, peer-support network boosts women’s well-being in conservation

Carolyn Cowan 6 Jul 2026
A leafy sea dragon among seagrass in South Australia. Image by Jayne Jenkins / Ocean Image Bank

Australia’s seagrass meadows under pressure as climate change turns up the heat

Sean Mowbray 3 Jul 2026
A farmer in Mwanza district: the Malawi chapter of the Rural Women’s Assembly works to help women like these learn how to practice agroforestry, protect soil health, and secure loans to improve their farms. Image by Swathi Sridharan/ICRISAT via Flick (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Malawi agroecologists see opportunity in Gulf fertilizer supply disruption

Charles Mpaka 3 Jul 2026
Fishing on the Kaptai Lake

Declining carp fishes in Bangladesh’s Kaptai Lake leave small-scale fishers struggling

Sifayet Ullah 3 Jul 2026
Peter Kitur, a 72-year-old farmer in Trans-Nzoia, Kenya, who buys the government subsidized fertilizer. Photo by Achieng' Otieino/Mongabay.

Running on empty: How the gulf war is threatening Kenya’s food security

Achieng’ Otieno 3 Jul 2026
An experimental line of orange corn enriched with provitamin A, harvested in Zambia. Photo by CIMMYT via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Zambia’s bumper harvest masks likely food insecurity amid geopolitics and climate threats

Chisapi Kumbutso 3 Jul 2026
The Congo Basin is home to critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis).

Can selective logging help the Congo Basin store more carbon?

Claudia Geib 2 Jul 2026
Crew members from Southeast Asia work to unload fish on purse seiners in the Western Pacific Ocean in 2023.

Indonesia’s ratification of fishing labor reforms will also boost conservation (commentary)

Muhamad Nour 2 Jul 2026

Dutch importers linked to suspect Amazon timber, investigation finds

Maxwell Radwin 2 Jul 2026
Left to right, the Netherlands' Minister for Climate Policy and Green Growth, Stientje van Veldhoven; along with Colombia's Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Irene Vélez Torres; and Ana Toni, COP30 CEO, during the launch of the outcome report from the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels at the London Climate Action Week. Image courtesy of Wilder García/ Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia.

Santa Marta report by 57 nations defines rapid fossil fuel transition path

Julian Reingold 2 Jul 2026
The challenge of finding out who is behind the front includes incursions to remote areas through dirt roads.

Crackdown lets rainforest reclaim illegal road in rare win for the Amazon

Rafael Spuldar 2 Jul 2026
A leopard in Pendjari NP, in 2022. Camera traps were placed along likely travel routes and positioned to photograph both sides of the leopards to aid with identification. The researchers were able to identify 30 individual leopards from their unique spot patterns. Image courtesy of ZSL-CCI/Panthera/APN-Pendjari National Park.

Endangered West African leopards show signs of recovery, despite odds. ‘It’s a win’

Ruth Kamnitzer 2 Jul 2026

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