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Maoz Fine and Naama-Rose Kochman visit the lab’s coral nursery and monitoring station near Eilat.

Even the Gulf of Aqaba’s ‘supercorals’ bleached during 2024 heat wave

Ilan Ben Zion 14 Apr 2025
Banner image of an adult wattled crane and its chick, courtesy of Daniel Dolpire/International Crane Foundation.

Outlook improves for wattled crane in South Africa

Kristine Sabillo 11 Apr 2025
Red deer in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria.

How is conservation preparing for a much hotter world? Experts share

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2025
Dugong in Thailand

Dugong numbers plummet amid seagrass decline in Thailand’s Andaman Sea

Carolyn Cowan 10 Apr 2025
An Indochinese tiger. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Thailand’s ‘second’ tiger population stable, but barriers to expansion persist

Carolyn Cowan 9 Apr 2025
Banner image of Pasir Timbul in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

122 companies responsible for a third of present day sea-level rise: Study

Kristine Sabillo 8 Apr 2025
Bonobos in the DRC’s Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve. Image courtesy of Maud Mouginot.

Bonobos combine calls in ways that resemble human language, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 8 Apr 2025
A tagged vulture in Zambia as part of ongoing population monitoring efforts. Malasa says she hopes the findings of the recent report can galvanize conservation support for vultures across Africa. Image courtesy of BirdWatch Zambia.

Conserving vultures in Southern Africa may provide substantial economic gain: Report

Sean Mowbray 7 Apr 2025

What do CITES data tell us about the legal wildcat trade?

Alex Shaw, Spoorthy Raman 7 Apr 2025

Lithium Triangle mining may strain water sources more than expected, study says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Apr 2025
Banner image of a humpback whale breaching in Iceland, by Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Study delves into increase in humpback whale sightings in UK and Ireland

Kristine Sabillo 4 Apr 2025
A tokay gecko in Indonesia. Indonesia is the world's largest exporter of these geckos, with more than 8 million harvest quotas issued in 2022.

Amid fuzzy data, scientists urge monitoring of Hong Kong’s tokay gecko trade

Spoorthy Raman 3 Apr 2025
Galápagos yellow warbler. Image courtesy of Alper Yelimlies.

Traffic noise turns Galápagos warblers into angry birds

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Apr 2025
Banner image of a wildfire in Umatilla National Forest, by Brendan O’Reilly/U.S. Forest Service–Pacific Northwest Region via Flickr (Public domain).

Innovators battling wildfires with AI, drones & fungi get $50k grants to scale up

Kristine Sabillo 2 Apr 2025
Polar bears give birth in dens beneath the snow where the cubs remain for many months; their emergence from dens marks a crucial period during which the cubs acclimatize to the harsh environment in the Arctic. Image by K T Miller/Polar Bears International.

Rare polar bear cub footage offers crucial conservation insights

Abhishyant Kidangoor 2 Apr 2025
An acacia plant hosting stinging ants for defense. Image by Ryan Somma via Flickr (CCBY-SA2.0).

The vast venomous world of plants, fungi, bacteria: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Apr 2025
Bernardo Vallejo inspects in Finca Las Brisas. Image © Victor Raison.

Colombia’s coffee farmers try to balance innovation and tradition to adapt to climate change

Victor Raison 1 Apr 2025
Elephants Crossing Ewaso Ewaso Ng'iro river, Samburu, Kenya. Image courtesy of Fritz Vollrath

For wandering elephants, path of least resistance could help map out safe corridors

Ryan Truscott 31 Mar 2025
Two Sumatran rhinos. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Life on Earth is changing — not just in numbers, but in essence

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2025

Huge iceberg breaks from Antarctica, revealing a rich seafloor ecosystem

Bobby Bascomb 28 Mar 2025
Polar bear mother with two cubs on a snowy sandbank in northern Alaska.

Polar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice?

Elizabeth Devitt 27 Mar 2025
Researchers find a new killifish species, Nothobranchius sylvaticus, in an an ephemeral swamp in the Gongoni Forest Reserve in Kenya. Image by Dirk Bellstedt.

Researchers find new killifish species in Kenya

Gilbert Nakweya 27 Mar 2025

Peru’s rare peatland swamps at risk as illegal gold mining expands

Maxwell Radwin 26 Mar 2025

A century later, a rare mushroom with a curious shape emerges in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Mar 2025
Banner image of a loggerhead sea turtle released in 2021, courtesy of Vanessa Kahn/New England Aquarium.

Surgically implanted tags offer rare insight into rehabilitated sea turtles

Kristine Sabillo 25 Mar 2025
Banner image of people on a Sydney beach on a hot summer day. Image by Neerav Bhatt via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Hotter weather threatens heart health, Australian study warns

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Mar 2025
A young orangutan grasps and hangs on to a woody liana.

As apes adapt to human disturbance, their new behaviors also put them at risk: Study

Charles Mpaka 24 Mar 2025

Plastic pollution cuts into fishers’ livelihoods in Ecuador and Peru

Ana Cristina Alvarado 24 Mar 2025
The Stanley Plateau glacier in 2022. Africa’s remaining tropical glaciers are rapidly disappearing. Image courtesy of Project Pressure.

Africa’s last tropical glaciers are melting away along with local livelihoods

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025
Banner image of a flower warehouse in Netherlands by Naaldwijk Rijksoverheid via University of Cambridge.

An arachnid in your orchid? Ornamental plant trade risks spreading invasive species

Kristine Sabillo 21 Mar 2025
A ceremonial glacier graveyard in Iceland.

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025
Artisans fix nets at Chikombe Beach ahead of their trip to Mbenje Island – . Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Fish-tracking robot aims to make fishing more sustainable in developing nations

Charles Mpaka 20 Mar 2025

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