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A woman collects water from a pond in Bangladesh, where drinkable water is becoming increasingly scarce due to salt contamination from sea level rise. Image courtesy of Abu Siddique.

Sea level rise is ruining coastal Bangladesh with salty water (commentary)

AL Sharia 1 Jul 2026
Bay near Pulai Rayo, Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett Butler.

The blueprint for building a fairer world without breaking the planet

Mike DiGirolamo 30 Jun 2026
Dang Dinh Bach speaking.

Vietnamese environmental lawyer Dang Dinh Bach released after 5 years in prison

Naina Rao 26 Jun 2026

The Bougainville community in Panguna wants justice for mining’s ‘toxic legacy’

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Jun 2026
Women and girls from Capirona gather to collect stones and make water filters, as part of the community experiment developed in partnership with the Yachana Foundation. Image courtesy of the Yachana Foundation.

In Ecuador, an Indigenous community goes thirsty despite its two rivers

Gabriela Verdezoto Landívar 12 Jun 2026
A full-circle rainbow arcing over a vast oil palm plantation in Jambi, Indonesia, carved out of what was once native rainforest. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Southeast Asian nations chart important new course toward environmental justice (commentary)

John Knox 11 Jun 2026
Climate Wayfinding with a design background. Image by Amerpsand. Courtesy of Katharine Wilkinson.

‘Climate Wayfinding’ can help you unpack the overwhelm of our ecological problems

Mike DiGirolamo 9 Jun 2026
Phuon Keorasmey, 23, a prominent figure in Mother Nature Cambodia, is arrested on July 2, 2024. Image courtesy of Licadho.

Rights groups renew call to free jailed Cambodian environmental activists

Gerald Flynn 5 Jun 2026

Bangladesh struggles to enforce ‘polluter pays’ principle amid legal delays

Sadiqur Rahman 4 Jun 2026
Banner image of Myanmar teak courtesy of EIA.

Luxury yacht maker Sunseeker pleads guilty to violating a US environmental law

Naina Rao 27 May 2026
Banner image: Wheelchair on a beach. Image courtesy of Lucas Andrade via Pexels.

Marine conservation suffers when the ocean is not accessible to all, especially on remote islands (commentary)

Elsie Gabriel 15 May 2026
Photographer Jonathan Bachman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for capturing a photograph of Ieshia Evans being arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was Ieshia Evans first protest, and Bachman’s first time covering one. The photo was included in The New York Times’ “The Year in Pictures 2016,” among other honors. jonathan bachman / reuters. Shepard Fairey—a prolific artist and activist who often addresses social and political issues in his work—was invited by the authors of ‘Protest’ to interpret Bachman’s photograph for the book. Image credit to Shepard Fairey. Image Courtesy of Patagonia Books.

Protest works, but is under attack and needs your help, veteran activists say

Mike DiGirolamo 12 May 2026
A fisher displays a meager catch at Goi Creek, Nigeria, in 2013, following oil spills in the area in years prior. Image by Milieudefensie via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Marine resource conflicts in Africa revolve mostly around access: Study

Edward Carver 29 Apr 2026
A sign marking the boundary of the Atlantic Lithium mine entering Ewoyaa village. Image by Maxine Betteridge-Moes for Mongabay.

As Ghana eyes lithium future, affected communities face uncertainty

Maxine Betteridge-Moes 29 Apr 2026
Design by Grist / Carrie Johnson.

Indigenous peoples’ health cannot be separated from the environment, U.N. delegates warn

Aimee Gabay 22 Apr 2026
Solar panels installed in Bali

New treaty to end the fossil fuel era is needed more than ever (commentary)

Tzeporah Berman 21 Apr 2026
Excavations at the mine, which has been found to be the source of the pollution in two rivers in Karonga district. Image by Jordan Simeon Phiri for Mongabay.

Malawi government suspends coal miner’s license over river pollution

Charles Mpaka 20 Apr 2026
In 2023, women working at the Salala plantation told Mongabay their managers often tried to pressure them into sex. Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

Second progress report shows little action on World Bank redress plan at Liberian plantation

Victoria Schneider 9 Apr 2026
Vietnamese activists hold a photo of dead fish, allegedly killed with toxic chemicals, during a protest to urge Formosa Plastics Group to take responsibilities for the cleanup in Vietnam, August 2016, in Taipei, Taiwan.

10 years after Vietnam’s Formosa steel plant spill, justice for victims remains elusive

Hướng Thiện 6 Apr 2026

Thai court rules gold mine liable, but villagers face uncertain justice

Kannikar Petchkaew 1 Apr 2026
Wallace's Passage between Gam and Waigeo islands in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Meaningful conservation demands truth, not just facts, says political ecologist

Mike DiGirolamo 31 Mar 2026
A Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) ship.

Shipping’s biofuel gamble could deepen Africa’s land squeeze and food insecurity (commentary)

Susan Chomba, Million Belay 20 Mar 2026
An oil pipeline through Wampis territory in the Amazonas department. Image by Jacob Balzani.

How foreign investor lawsuits stymie environmental protection

Aimee Gabay 19 Mar 2026
Indigenous protesters and self-proclaimed river defenders demonstrate against Brazilian dams. Image courtesy of Amazon Watch.

A decade after the death of Berta Cáceres, we can no longer tolerate threats to environmental activists (commentary)

Michael Sutton 17 Mar 2026

Climate-resilient housing models slow to gain ground in disaster-prone Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 16 Mar 2026
Biologists from the Idaho Fish and Wildlife Office hike at sunrise to survey for greater sage-grouse in Owyhee County, Idaho.

Emotional and psychological stresses beleaguer conservation professionals (commentary)

Vik Mohan, Nerissa Chao 4 Mar 2026
Fisherfolk at Lourenção Rocks on the Amazon’s Tocantins River.

Amazon riverfolk warn blasting rocks for shipping route will kill fisheries

Tiffany Higgins 25 Feb 2026
A Pirahã family floating on a river, 2017.

Malaria outbreak among Indigenous Pirahã linked to forest loss, satellite data find

Aimee Gabay 17 Feb 2026
Tanoh Jallah, a resident of one of the towns in the IFC complaint, said all the good farmland was taken by Salala.

Community complaints in limbo as Socfin cuts ties with Earthworm Foundation

Ashoka Mukpo, Victoria Schneider 10 Feb 2026
Coastline of Big Sur in California. In 2013, a group of researchers found eggs of California condors in the coastal redwoods of Big Sur contaminated with DDT, even though the pesticide has been banned in the U.S. since 1972. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Writer Megan Mayhew Bergman on science, emotion, and the lasting power of ‘Silent Spring’

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Feb 2026
Salam came here from North Sulawesi 10 years ago and now has a farm of 1,200 peppercorn trees.

Worries grow for Sulawesi farmers as nickel mining company plans expansion

Richard Kent 29 Jan 2026
The Dayak Bahau community in Long Isun expresses its complaint. Image courtesy of Accountability Counsel.

World Bank carbon program risks further infringing upon rights of Indonesian Indigenous community (commentary)

Fuat Edi Kurniawan, Sadar Ginting, Anna Christi Suwardi 28 Jan 2026

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