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Community tree nursery

How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2023
Roger and Matt store the days catch after a day of reefnet fishing in Legoe Bay, off the shore of Lummi Island Washington.

Last of the reef netters: An Indigenous, sustainable salmon fishery

Liz Kimbrough 21 Nov 2023
Salmon attempt to make it up the falls at Bridge River Rapids on the Fraser River in southwestern British Columbia.

Fish out of water: North American drought bakes salmon

Ruth Kamnitzer 20 Nov 2023
Aerial view of the NGOWP team's mekoro along the Cuando River.

New study pushes for protection of one of Africa’s ‘least understood treasures’

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2023

‘We just want to be left in peace’: In Brazil’s Amazon, soy ambitions loom over Indigenous land

Ana Ionova 9 Nov 2023
Rice farmers in Vietnam

Dam-building on Mekong poses risk to regional industries, report says

Carolyn Cowan 8 Nov 2023
Maman Ajo makes a living selling boats.

Java farmers displaced by dam remain treading water after decades

Donny Iqbal 8 Nov 2023
A bronze-winged jacana amidst overgrown water hyacinth.

Nepal’s water hyacinth helps exotic fish invade, harming native species: Study

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Nov 2023
Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). Image by Dr. Jonathan Moore.

To keep track of salmon migrations in real time, First Nations turn to AI

Spoorthy Raman 6 Nov 2023

More action needed to protect freshwater ecosystems, report says

Maxwell Radwin 27 Oct 2023
Villagers of Muanda.

Oil firm Perenco eyes new blocks in DRC amid criticism of its track record

Elodie Toto 24 Oct 2023
Pink river dolphins.

Fishing ban extension raises hopes for iconic Amazon pink river dolphin

Pérola de Farias Pedro 16 Oct 2023
Ruddy ducks in East Rapti River next to the protected Chitwan National Park.

Conservationists condemn Nepal proposal to allow hydropower in protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Oct 2023
A muddied river.

Muddied tropical rivers reveal magnitude of global gold mining boom: Study

Shanna Hanbury 5 Sep 2023

Tropical lakes are carbon super sinks, even more than forests, study shows

Evanildo da Silveira 18 Aug 2023
Volunteers clearing plastic trash gathered from river barriers. Image courtesy of Sam Benchegjib.

For International Youth Day, three youth conservation success stories

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 12 Aug 2023
Biologist Mario Moscatelli (right) supervises the work of a colleague during the replanting of mangroves in Jardim Gramacho, close to a disused dump. The area is the most polluted part of the bay and exists under the shadow of the city’s infamous criminal organizations.

Rio de Janeiro’s defender of mangroves

Mongabay.com 9 Aug 2023
Indigenous farmer Leopoldo Lebuna weeds his lowland farm

In Philippines, climate change tests Indigenous farming like never before

Keith Anthony Fabro 4 Aug 2023

The endless struggle to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s highly polluted Guanabara Bay

Andrew Johnson 1 Aug 2023
Freshwater ecologist Kurt Pinter holds a fish collected during the 2023 biological survey of the Neretva River, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photo by Monica Pelliccia for Mongabay.

How biological surveys prevent destructive dams in the Balkans

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2023

Offshore oil plans in Brazil threaten South America’s largest coral reef

Luan Matheus Santana/Agência Pública 24 Jul 2023
A fish in a plastic glove.

Clean me a river: Southeast Asia chokes on Mekong plastic pollution

Juliette Portala 18 Jul 2023

Can Spain keep the rising sea from washing away a critical delta?

Nathan Siegel 5 Jul 2023
A male gharial guarding hatchlings.

Death of rare male gharial in Nepal highlights conservation crisis

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2023
rhino in Nepal

Nepal’s rhinos are eating plastic waste, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2023

Dam-building spree pushes Amazon Basin’s aquatic life closer to extinction

Sibélia Zanon 22 Jun 2023
A fisherman carries a basketful of hilsa.

Climate change, human pressures push Bangladesh’s ‘national fish’ into decline

Abu Siddique 19 Jun 2023
A river in Nepal.

Seeking environmental DNA in Himalayan rivers: Q&A with Adarsh Man Sherchan

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Jun 2023

Expedition catches Amazon river dolphins to help save this iconic pink species

Kevin Damasio 9 Jun 2023

Fishers confirm scientists’ warning: Brazil’s Belo Monte dam killed off the river

João Paulo Guimarães 8 Jun 2023

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Jaka Hendra Baittri 6 Jun 2023
A European eel (Anguilla anguilla) underwater.

Conservationists aim to save critically endangered European eels on Italy’s Po River

Lucrezia Lozza 26 May 2023

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