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Arzu Begum stands by the door of her house in the poor Mirpur area of Dhaka in July, 2022.

Bangladesh’s climate migrants are arriving in cities unprepared to protect them

Usraat Fahmidah 23 Oct 2026
The Arazaire community is split in two, bisected by the Inambari River. On the river's left bank, where residents once had agricultural plots, forest, and ceremonial lagoons, the landscape is now dominated by mercury-laden ponds and deforestation.

Amazon communities lose water as mining and deforestation reshape rivers

Vanessa Romo 23 Oct 2026

Nearly all the world’s coral reefs are at risk of collapse within 50 years, IUCN warns

David Brown 23 Oct 2026

Death of iconic elephant in Sri Lanka pushes authorities to fast-track protection efforts

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 23 Oct 2026
A man rides a bicycle through thick haze caused by wildfires in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Oct. 23, 2026.

Indonesians allege social media posts on wildfires and haze are being censored

Winda Charmila 23 Oct 2026

Two decades after crash, Nepal still searching for new generation of conservation visionaries

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2026
Ballista Spider

This spider catapults ants

Romi Castagnino 23 Oct 2026

Googly-eyed buoys and kites help keep seabirds out of fishing nets, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 23 Oct 2026
Sánchez Mercado on a field trip. His research evaluates the dynamics of morichales, as well as their potential as carbon sinks that can be easily replicated in the tropical belt. Image courtesy of Miguel Angel Sánchez-Mercado.

Water, carbon & the ‘tree of life’: Interview with Venezuela’s guardian of morichales

Diego Ávila Muskus 22 Oct 2026

Facing pushback on data centers, tech giants are promising hosts more money and fewer secrets

Associated Press 22 Oct 2026

Rare Indonesian maleo birds face new threat from international exotic pet trade

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2026

A ‘Treasury of Ice’ goes on show, revealing relics as Swiss glaciers rapidly melt

Associated Press 21 Oct 2026
A red-Footed booby (Sula sula) chick on an atoll island in the central Indian Ocean.

Seabird guano and native trees keep islands above rising seas: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 Oct 2026

Bangladesh garment factory workers bear the brunt of rising temperatures

Usraat Fahmidah 21 Oct 2026
Banner image: The Javari River where it forms the border between Peru and Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

IUCN’s Madhu Rao on the world’s protected areas: Progress, pressures and the race to 2030

David Akana 21 Oct 2026
: Cacao (Theobroma cacao). Image courtesy of mwintirew via iNaturalist (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Heavy rains during critical period of cacao cultivation hit Ghana’s yields

Victoria Schneider 21 Oct 2026
Conservation Entangled thumbnail

Wildlife photography’s dirty little secret

Izzy Sasada 21 Oct 2026
Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) in Louisiana

Recycled glass offers a potential new tool to restore a vanishing coastline

Fernanda Biasoli 20 Oct 2026
Nigeria's Parks chief, Ibrahim Musa Goni. Photo, African Nature Investors Foundation.

Nigeria’s parks chief stresses conservation gains amid struggle to protect wildlife

David Akana 20 Oct 2026
Houses nearly submerged due to flooding in Sirajganj, 2020.

Bank credit remains scarce in Bangladesh where climate risks are highest

Sajibur Rahman 20 Oct 2026
African savannah elephants in Kenya (Loxodonta africana). Image by Julie Larsen ©Wild-life Conservation Society.

Large animals are living carbon stores. Does that make saving them a climate solution?

John Cannon 20 Oct 2026
Ellesmere Island is home to one of the most northerly populations of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in the world. Image by Arturo de Frias Marques via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Loss of a rare lake reveals how warming has hit the Canadian Arctic’s ‘planetary fridge’

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 Oct 2026
Two wolf puppies from the Junction Butte Pack in Yellowstone National Park

What 500,000 hours of Yellowstone sound can tell us about wolves

Rhett A. Butler 19 Oct 2026
Lynx wash prey

Why are these lynxes washing their food?

Romi Castagnino 19 Oct 2026
Orca

This orca destroyed a sunfish and no one is sure why

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Oct 2026

Fundraising to protect oceans, forests and other key nature sites falling short ahead of UN summit

Associated Press 16 Oct 2026
A wolf howls with the Sawtooth Mountains in the background. Image © Jim and Jamie Dutcher.

As US states reduce recently restored wolf populations, here’s what we risk losing (commentary)

Jim and Jamie Dutcher 16 Oct 2026
People gather to watch a trapped shark called Bukangi at the North Port Waterfront Park in Busan, South Korea, on Sept. 29, 2026. Image by AP Photos/Son Hyung-joo/Yonhap.

Celebrity shark trapped in South Korean canal stirs concerns over warming seas

Kelly Kasulis-Cho 16 Oct 2026
Parrotfish in a seagrass meadow in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Image courtesy of Benjamin Jones.

Seagrass meadows may offer coastal communities a more nutritious catch than reefs

Rajeev Tyagi 16 Oct 2026
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodia was told to clean up its monkey trade. Regulators say it still hasn’t

Gerald Flynn 15 Oct 2026
Artificial mangrove roots

Artificial mangrove roots offer a stopgap for Thailand’s eroding coastline

Carolyn Cowan 15 Oct 2026

Chinese social media used to promote illegal wildlife trade in Laos

Mongabay.com 14 Oct 2026

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