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Two young boys farming.

To get young Filipinos into farming, initiatives reach them via TikTok, school

Janine Peralta 27 Oct 2022
A black river turtle on a log

For water quality, even a sliver of riverbank forest is better than none

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2022

To save the Amazon, scientists are listening to its rich sounds

Sibélia Zanon 27 Oct 2022
A feral Moluccan cockatoo.

Survey finds thriving online market for Indonesian birds in Philippines

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 26 Oct 2022
The successful use of microorganisms in the production of soybeans is driving R&D for the development of bioproducts focused on different crops. Image by Bruno Kelly/Greenpeace.

Biofertilizers cut costs and GHG emissions for Brazilian soybean producers

Juliana Ennes 26 Oct 2022
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog.

Humans are decimating wildlife, report warns ahead of U.N. biodiversity talks

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Oct 2022
A member of the Bhimeshwori Sustainable Farming Group at her agroforestry farm in Kavre, Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Josh / Mongabay.

EU’s anti-deforestation trade rule should be more women-friendly (commentary)

Simone Lovera 26 Oct 2022

Attorney keeps alive legacy of murdered Pará activists, despite death threats

Elizabeth Oliveira 26 Oct 2022
Pits dug by the bears.

It’s no Yeti, but Tibetan brown bear’s presence in Nepal is no longer a myth

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Oct 2022

Brazil’s biggest elected Indigenous caucus to face tough 2023 Congress

Karla Mendes 25 Oct 2022
Playing on an Xbox.

Playing dangerously: The environmental impact of video gaming consoles

Claire Asher 25 Oct 2022
A North Atlantic right whale. Image by Moira Brown and New England Aquarium via Wikimedia Commons.

Wrong trend for right whales amid ‘devastating’ population decline

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2022

Loss of Brazilian pines threatens Kaingáng Indigenous culture

Sônia Kaingáng 25 Oct 2022
Budha looking for snails in a cave.

‘A mollusk is as important as a tiger’: Q&A with Prem Bahadur Budha

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Oct 2022
Alice Gama looks at cracks that have developed on the wall of her house in Arda Transau, an area near Zimbabwe’s Chiadzwa diamond fields. Image courtesy Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of Evidence Chenjerai.

Broken houses and promises: residents still in poverty near massive diamond project

Anna Weekes 24 Oct 2022
Deramakot forest reserve is a FSC-certified logging concession in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

With FSC rule change, deforesters once blocked from certification get a new shot

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Oct 2022
Adelie penguins hunting the Southern Ocean. Image courtesy of John Weller.

To protect the Southern Ocean, leaders must act now (commentary)

Dona Bertarelli 24 Oct 2022
Arctic sea ice melts.

Arctic sea ice loss to increase strong El Niño events linked to extreme weather: Study

Alec Luhn 24 Oct 2022

In the western Amazon, oil blocks eat away at Indigenous lands, protected areas

Yvette Sierra Praeli 24 Oct 2022
E-waste management.

Bangladesh e-waste rules hang in limbo as electrical goods companies ask for delay

Maksuda Aziz 21 Oct 2022
The Gabonese and Congolese forests help to create the rainfall in the Sahel. Image by Axel Rouvin via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Tracking the moves of Asian forestry companies in Central Africa (analysis)

Alain Karsenty 21 Oct 2022
Rainbow over Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Drive for restoration and remedy behind some NGOs’ cautious support for FSC changes (commentary)

Grant Rosoman 21 Oct 2022
Sea spaghetti in a kelp forest.

Europe considers large-scale seaweed farming; environmental effects unknown

Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams, Tristen Taylor 21 Oct 2022
Goatfish in a coral reef.

To boost fish catches, try banning fishing, new study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Oct 2022
Okapis (Okapia johnstoni) are related to giraffes. Image in the public domain.

Element Africa: Mines take their toll on nature and communities

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2022
Plastic pieces found inside a dead shearwater.

Plastic impacts a grossly underestimated ‘one-two punch’ for seabirds: Study

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 2022
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

Early retirement for Indonesian coal plants could cut CO2, boost jobs, analysis says

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2022

In Colombia, a new president faces old environmental challenges

David Tarazona 20 Oct 2022
A family clears overgrown aquatic weeds in a wetland.

Habitat loss, climate change threaten Bangladesh’s native freshwater fishes with extinction

Rafiqul Islam 20 Oct 2022
An orangutan under treatment.

Severe malaria cases in rescued orangutans raises concerns for wild populations

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 2022

Illegal agricultural project moves ahead on Brazilian Indigenous lands

João Peres, Marcos Hermanson Pomar, Tatiana Merlino from O Joio e o Trigo 19 Oct 2022
Penguins in the Antarctic.

Fish-feed industry turns to krill, with unknown effects on the Antarctic ecosystem

Francesco De Augustinis 19 Oct 2022

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