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Mangroves and Shorebirds in the Lamu area, Indian Ocean Coast of Kenya. Image by GRID-Arendal/Peter Prokosch via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

UN fund for sharing biodiversity benefits struggles for attention — and money

Mactilda Mbenywe 1 Sep 2026
A woman lifts a jug she filled with water from a tanker truck amid rationing caused by drought, in the Cupey sector of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

Climate change parches Puerto Rico and Jamaica in rare early wet season drought

Naina Rao 1 Sep 2026
A remotely operated vehicle explores brine pool formations in the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico. Image courtesy of Ocean Exploration Trust/Nautilus Live.

Gulf of Mexico’s unique Orca Basin shouldn’t become a carbon dump (commentary)

Craig R. McClain 31 Aug 2026
Around 2,000 people gathered for the “Maju for the people” rally on Aug. 16. Image by Ada Cheong.

Singapore spending billions to adapt to climate change, but deforestation continues

Robin Hicks 31 Aug 2026
Dead sei whales (Balaenoptera borealis) in a remote fjord of Central Patagonia in 2015

Scientists use satellites to track whale strandings in remote places from space

Manuel Fonseca 31 Aug 2026
Loyiso Dunga working to map indigenous community cultural connections in the Wild Coast, South Africa. Image courtesy of Loyiso Dunga.

‘You can’t protect what you don’t know:’ Interview with marine scientist Loyiso Dunga

Alexandra Talty 31 Aug 2026
Indianthus virgatus growing along the shaded bank of a stream in lowland forest. Image courtesy of Vishnu et al., 2026 (CC BY-NC 4.0).

‘Lost’ for 170 years, rare plant recorded in Sri Lanka

Naina Rao 31 Aug 2026

Global sea surface temperatures reach a record high, again

Bobby Bascomb 28 Aug 2026
An Australian eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus).

The conservation population of Australia’s endangered eastern quoll welcomes joeys

Paul Harvey 28 Aug 2026

Singapore made a crow-friendly city. Now it wants to shoot them

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2026
Great white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) at the Djoudj Bird Sanctuary in Senegal.

More than 380 coastal World Heritage Sites may face climate risks, new data shows

María Paula Rubiano A. 27 Aug 2026

‘Devastating’ rush for critical minerals has little to do with green energy: Report

Victoria Schneider 27 Aug 2026

US environmental groups plan to sue to relist gray whales under Endangered Species Act

David Brown 27 Aug 2026

Nepal floods highlight growing glacier risks in warming Himalayas

Associated Press 27 Aug 2026

At least 75 killed and hundreds missing after flash floods in Nepal and China

Associated Press 26 Aug 2026
A sponge crab (Sphaerodromia brizops) collected at the Muirfield Seamount, southwest of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Scientists discover 149 new deep-sea species at remote Indian Ocean seamounts

Emma Smith 26 Aug 2026

El Niño is disrupting the Pacific’s marine food web from the bottom up

Naina Rao 26 Aug 2026
Tulipa anadroma, a threatened tulip species, growing in the Sary-Chelek Biosphere Reserve in western Kyrgyzstan in early 2019. This protected area is the only place on Earth where the species can be found. Image by Brett Wilson.

Tracing the origins of tulips: Interview with botanist Brett Wilson

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Aug 2026

Inspiring young herpetologists in Sri Lanka: Interview with Anslem de Silva

Malaka Rodrigo 25 Aug 2026

DNA analysis of Asiatic wild dogs scat in India reveals wild prey preference

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2026
A bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) in Albert Park, Victoria.

Bogong moths support Australia’s alpine ecosystems, but face uncertain future

Hannah Thomasy 25 Aug 2026
Spinach pipefish is an endemic species found in Papua New Guinea's Sepik River. It was not seen by scientists for more than four decades. Image Courtesy of New Guinea Binatang Research Centre.

Local knowledge guides rediscovery of spinach pipefish, not seen in four decades

Spoorthy Raman 24 Aug 2026

Daniel Janzen and the long work of bringing back a forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Aug 2026
dragonfly Colombia

Dragonflies help protect water and ancestral Indigenous languages in Colombia

Manuel Fonseca 24 Aug 2026
An Indigenous man walks on a dried-up tributary of the Angat river in the Philippines. Rising temperatures and El Niño conditions have impacted the level of the Angat dam, which supplies water to the capital city of Manila. Image by Gigie Cruz/GHHIN-EJN Extreme Heat Photo Contest 2025 via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

World must look to the past to prepare for likely unprecedented El Niño

Sean Mowbray 23 Aug 2026

Move over bears. Fat Marmot Week puts a spotlight on the alpine rodents

Associated Press 21 Aug 2026
National park staff, government officials and local community members conduct a tree survey in Nakai-Nam Theun National Park, Laos, located in the Annamite mountain range. Image by Oudomphone Insisiengmay.

Southeast Asia is a hotspot for oak trees, many under ‘dire threat’

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2026
A vendor cools herself with a portable electric fan as she waits for customers at her souvenirs store, in Beijing, China, Tuesday, June 2, 2026.

Six things to know about Asia’s heatwave and the health impacts

Andrew Jeong 21 Aug 2026

This tiny Thai lizard shares its name with a ‘House of the Dragon’ beast

Naina Rao 21 Aug 2026

Hermit crabs and cockroaches emerge as unlikely seed dispersers on a Japanese island

Naina Rao 21 Aug 2026

Climate change drove extreme July heat in European seas, study finds

Naina Rao 20 Aug 2026
Wilfrido Arends, 46, an Indigenous Wayuu fisher known locally as “Caracas,” scans the horizon as he steers the onboard motor of his small fishing boat. Image by Euan Wallace.

Indigenous fishers rethink shark hunting & protect species on Colombia’s coast

Euan Wallace 20 Aug 2026

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