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A lake with a large-scale algae outbreak due to excess nutrients. Image courtesy of Brad Busenius via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Mangroves are ‘powerful and undervalued’ for curbing nitrogen pollution, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 21 May 2026
A goatherd looks through solar panels in Bangladesh. Image by UN Environment Programme/Reza Shariar Rahman via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Bangladesh’s energy crunch highlights the promise — and limits — of solar

Md Jahidul Islam 21 May 2026
A Khudi Bari built by residents living along the Jamuna River. Image courtesy of Tabassaum Studio.

In flood-prone Bangladesh, tiny homes are built to move with the river

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026
Image of women look after their cattle on the fringes of Bardiya National Park.

Rural women at increasing risk of human-wildlife conflict in Nepal

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026
Dugong rescue in Thailand

Thai island community rallies to protect beloved dugongs, revive declining seagrass

Carolyn Cowan 21 May 2026
A female langur with her baby crosses an artificial canopy bridge called Numi’s Crossing along Lembah Permai road in the Tanjung Bungah area of George Town, Penang Island. Image by Mohd Rasfan / AFP.

In Malaysia, a bridge helps endangered langurs and humans coexist

Philip Jacobson, Isabelle Leong 20 May 2026
A local guide training Community-Based Fire Management (CBFiM) members with camera trap set up.

On Southeast Asia’s largest lake, locals wield tech to defend the flooded forest

Claire Turrell 19 May 2026
Emmanuel Bahati Lukoo is currently deputy director of Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Image courtesy of Emmanuel Bahati Lukoo.

He survived a deadly attack, now he is calling for better working conditions for rangers in DRC

David Akana 19 May 2026
The short-eared dog inhabits the Amazon and prefers untouched forests. Image courtesy of Guido Ayala & María Viscarra/WCS Bolivia.

Study gathers over 4,000 photos to find Bolivia’s rarest Amazonian dog

Iván Paredes Tamayo 19 May 2026
Monica Montefalcone. From her social media.

Monica Montefalcone, leading seagrass scientist, dies in Maldives diving accident, aged 51

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 May 2026

New energy deals for Africa sealed at Nairobi summit

David Akana 15 May 2026

Canada aims to double its electric grid by 2050 with clean energy and lower costs for users

Associated Press 15 May 2026
An Australian flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus). Image by Dylan Goldspink.

Karajarri celebrate Australia’s first ‘Sea Country’ Indigenous Protected Area

John Cannon 14 May 2026

After quinoa’s boom, Bolivian farmers face degraded soils and climate stress

Benjamin Swift 14 May 2026
A mudskipper with turquoise spots, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Egyptian teens use robots for ‘smarter and more responsive’ way to protect Earth

Victoria Schneider 14 May 2026
Miyawai forest planting in New York, U.S.

Popular Miyawaki reforestation method lacks evidence, study finds

Annelise Giseburt 13 May 2026

In eastern Indonesia, communities revive customary systems to protect the seas

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 May 2026
First Nations elders watch the Canada Day festivities in Calgary, Alberta

New data platform aims to reduce conflicts between First Nations and businesses in Canada

Olivia Ferrari 12 May 2026
Hard-ground swamp deer in their new habitat in Satpura Tiger Reserve. Image courtesy of L. Krishnamoorthy.

Rare swamp deer subspecies thriving in new home in India

Mongabay.com 12 May 2026
Fredrick Njoroge Kariuki, left, and Miron Onsarigo, the Hewa Safi innovators. Image courtesy of Lemmuel Agina/The Earth Foundation.

Teen innovators in Kenya turn farm waste into award-winning vehicle exhaust filter

Malavika Vyawahare, Mary Mwendwa 12 May 2026
A European wildcat in Scotland, where 46 captive-bred wildcats have been released as part of an ongoing reintroduction project. The cats are repopulating former habitat in the Cairngorms mountain range in the eastern highlands.

The European wildcat hovers between recovery and local extinction

Sean Mowbray 11 May 2026

Hundreds of Khulan return to Eastern Mongolia after 65-year absence

Naina Rao 11 May 2026
Mama ring-tailed lemur with baby in Anja, Madagascar. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A Mother’s Day lesson from a digger wasp

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 May 2026
The Nimba mountain range as seen from southern Guinea. Image by Maarten van der Bent via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

In the Nimba Mountains, a film examines the paradox of mining-funded conservation

Ashoka Mukpo 8 May 2026

Conservationists fear fires could erase years of orangutan habitat recovery

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 May 2026
Merlin Van Lawick at the Change Now conference in Paris to celebrate Dr. Jane Goodall’s lifetime achievements and bring together figures closely connected to her work and life. Image by Mary Lou Mauricio / Hans Lucas.

‘Hope is rooted in action’: Interview with Jane Goodall’s grandson Merlin Van Lawick

Juliette Chapalain 8 May 2026
Filmmaker and workshop facilitator Natália Tupi guiding student Maicon Santos in audiovisual techniques during the workshop in the Tukum village, Tupinambá de Olivença Territory (Bahia, Brazil). Image courtesy of Emma Latham Phillips.

What Indigenous youth filmmaking reveals about environmental communication (commentary)

Jamille Pinheiro Dias 7 May 2026
Jerry Jangala running a question-and-answer session out on country for participants in the workshop. Image by Anthony Ham.

Using songlines, elders codify traditional knowledge to care for Country

Anthony Ham 7 May 2026
Deforestation, climate change, and trade pose threats to the species, which has dwindled to a few hundred from some 750,000 in the 1960s.

US proposes endangered species protections for an imperiled Jamaican butterfly

Spoorthy Raman 7 May 2026

Cerrado’s hidden carbon highlights gaps in Brazil’s conservation policy

Daniel Shailer 7 May 2026
Ted Turner at CNN. Courtesy of the Ted Turner Foundation

Ted Turner, a media mogul who tried to repair the land

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 May 2026
A koala.

Australia’s new national park links habitat to protect koalas

Johan Augustin 6 May 2026

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