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A new species of pit viper was discovered and is still in the process of being described. Image courtesy of Fauna & Flora.

New species discovered in Cambodia’s rare rocky ecosystems

Shanna Hanbury 2 Apr 2026
Artisanal fishing vessels lined up at Down Beach, Limbe, Cameroon. Image by Shuimo Trust Dohyee for Mongabay.

A ‘big book’ documenting Cameroon’s sharks & rays fills critical conservation gap

Shuimo Trust Dohyee 1 Apr 2026
Collage of a cloned jaguar

Lab-made jaguar: Is cloning a solution to extinction?

Julia Lima, Gustavo Fonseca, Letícia Klein 30 Mar 2026

Grasslands and wetlands are being lost to agriculture four times faster than forests

Shanna Hanbury 30 Mar 2026
The Ranitomeya aetherea poison dart frog. Image courtesy of Alexander Mônico.

An ‘ethereal’ new-to-science poison dart frog from the Amazon: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 19 Mar 2026

Two marsupials thought extinct for 6,000 years found alive in Indonesian Papua

David Brown 17 Mar 2026

Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing

Bobby Bascomb 13 Mar 2026

Conservationists are burning out — and some are breaking

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Mar 2026

Scientists use rapid 3D scanning to create a digital library of 800 ant species

Spoorthy Raman 11 Mar 2026

How elephants experience time, and what this tells us about protecting them

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Mar 2026

The rate of global warming is accelerating, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 6 Mar 2026
John Cannon hiking in a snowfield in the mountains of Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks in 2024. Image courtesy of Anne-Claire Benoit.

Bringing storytelling to science: John Cannon’s approach to reporting on nature

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 5 Mar 2026
Scientists in Antarctica have just inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores. As the climate crisis melts glaciers all around the world, this frozen vault aims to preserve the history of the Earth's atmosphere for future generations to study.

A sanctuary… for glacier ice?

Sam Lee 5 Mar 2026
Monarch Butterfly

Flying along with monarch butterflies

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Feb 2026

Mongabay Explains

23 Feb 2026
Stingray

Snooping on stingrays

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Feb 2026

African wild dogs break the carnivore rule in Botswana 

Ryan Truscott 3 Feb 2026
Farmers on a 1.6-hectare (4-acre) plot of oranges, avocado, maize and vegetables in Kenya.

Earth Rover Program seeks to track the world’s soil health

John Cannon 21 Jan 2026

How many insects does California have? We’re getting closer to an answer

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jan 2026

Greenland sharks retain functional vision despite extreme longevity

Bobby Bascomb 14 Jan 2026
Demetrio carrying out monitoring tasks. Image courtesy of Richar Antonio Demetrio.

When Indigenous knowledge enters the scientific record

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jan 2026
Rainforest rainbow in Sabah. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

AI-centered conservation efforts can only be ethical if Indigenous people help lead them (commentary)

McKalee Steen, Magali de Bruyn 9 Jan 2026
Demetrio carrying out monitoring tasks. Image courtesy of Richar Antonio Demetrio.

‘I’m proud to be the first published Asháninka researcher’: Richar Antonio Demetrio on bees

Xilena Pinedo 2 Jan 2026

To save jaguars from extinction, scientists in Brazil are trying IVF and cloning

Letícia Klein 5 Dec 2025
Delegates listen to Brazilian President Lula deliver the opening speech of the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit in Belém, Thursday, Nov. 6. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

It’s time to end the carbon offset era, COP30 scientists & communities say (commentary)

Tom Picken 21 Nov 2025
Pyramid butterflyfish (Hemitaurichthys polylepis) around the island of Bali in Indonesia.

Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study

Edward Carver 18 Nov 2025
Bambang Hero Saharjo and Basuki Wasis, two environmental experts from IPB University, after the first hearing of their lawsuit against their testimony at the Cibinong District Court,

Indonesia court clears wildfire scientists in case brought by palm oil company

Rendy Tisna 17 Oct 2025

Vast freshwater reserves found beneath Atlantic seafloor

Bobby Bascomb 16 Oct 2025
Lolita Cabrera (Maya K’iche’), an Indigenous rights activist from Guatemala. Photo by Jamie Malcom-Brown/ Cultural Survival.

Bridging Indigenous and Western knowledge with science and radio

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 24 Sep 2025
Pollen-based sunscreen applied to skin pictured alongside raw camellia pollen. Image courtesy of NTU Singapore.

Scientists develop sunscreen made from pollen that doesn’t harm corals

Shanna Hanbury 22 Sep 2025
Two walruses atop a small piece of floating Arctic sea ice.

No new record low for Arctic sea ice loss in 2025

Gloria Dickie 16 Sep 2025
Lead vaccine researcher Peter Timms with a koala. Image courtesy of UniSC Australia.

Australia approves the world’s first chlamydia vaccine for koalas

Shanna Hanbury 15 Sep 2025

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