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A purebred dingo on K’gari, the world's largest sand island.

National platform launches in Australia to turn wildlife imagery into action

Megan Strauss 2 Jun 2026
Thomas Crowther

Nature’s feedback loops can drive collapse. Thomas Crowther thinks they can also drive recovery

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jun 2026
One of many unattributed AI-generated images doing the rounds on social media.

The new burden of proving wildlife is real

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 May 2026

For Honduran coffee growers, EUDR compliance means changing old habits

Sandra Weiss 29 May 2026
Environmental police operation against illegal deforestation in Espigão do Oeste, Rondônia in the Brazilian Amazon. Image courtesy of Fernando Augusto/Ibama.

Brazil Congress passes bill to bar use of Amazon deforestation satellite tool

Shanna Hanbury 28 May 2026
The common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) is one of 63 species that can be recognized by TropiCam-AI.

Most wildlife AI focuses on the ground. This model looks up in the trees

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 May 2026
A miner in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2023. Image by Electronics Watch via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

‘Corporate capture’ of critical minerals risks repeating DRC’s extractive past, warns indigenous leader

David Akana 22 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
Aerial view of solar-powered drip irrigation scheme in Tauya village, Zambia. In Zambia, the majority of rural communities depend on rain-fed agriculture. However, erratic weather patterns, including drought, often lead to significant crop damage and livestock losses. Food security remains a pressing issue. Photo by Enoch Kavindele Jr/UNDP Zambia via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.).

Zambian prodigy draws on theoretical physics to improve weather prediction

Victoria Schneider 15 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

At world’s largest shark conference, scientists warn of a grim outlook across the board

Philip Jacobson 14 May 2026
Carrion crows engage in cooperative breeding which requires intricate communication between entire families that are involved in raising chicks.

From caws to code: AI helps decrypt animal communication

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 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
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 Bengal tiger from Rajasthan, India. Poaching is one of the biggest threats to tigers, an endangered cat in Asia.

Facebook is a hub for illegal wildlife trade, and that’s by design, report says

Spoorthy Raman 5 May 2026
A forest in Costa Rica. The country is considered a pioneer in a forest protection mechanism that has helped drastically reverse deforestation. Image by Rhett Butler.

Can listening to a forest reveal whether it is ecologically healthy?

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 May 2026
Amazon Mining Watch leverages artificial intelligence to map the impact of gold mining activities across all nine Amazonian countries.

A search engine for the planet opens to the public

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Apr 2026
Design by Grist / Carrie Johnson.

AI is a double-edged sword for Indigenous stewardship, say U.N. experts

Aimee Gabay 24 Apr 2026
Mountain gorillas continue to face serious threats as they lose habitat and are stalked by poachers who target them for their meat and body parts, or traffic their infants for zoos and entertainment.

Amid conflict and poaching, tech helps boost mountain gorilla numbers

Aimable Twahirwa 23 Apr 2026
Southern resident orcas, an endangered subspecies, are threatened by a decline in their food sources, noise pollution and vessel traffic.

AI tool listens for endangered orcas in real time to reduce human disturbance

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Apr 2026
A forest in Costa Rica. The country is considered a pioneer in a forest protection mechanism that has helped drastically reverse deforestation. Image by Rhett Butler.

Listening to forests reveals signs of recovery beyond tree cover

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Apr 2026
Misty morning in Borneo. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

10 forces that could reshape the future of the world’s forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Apr 2026
Koalas have been declared an endangered species in many states in Australia. The marsupial faces several threats to its survival. Image courtesy of Griffith University.

Koala on the road? AI signs could alert drivers in real time

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Mar 2026

A Kenyan ranger’s lasting imprint on Africa’s anti-poaching efforts

Lynet Otieno 27 Mar 2026
Elephants in Dzanga Bai in the Central African Republic. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Plenty of biodiversity data, but too few conservation answers

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Mar 2026
Sperm Whales Up Close Underwater in Indian Ocean, Western Australia. Photo credit: © Alex Westover

The ocean’s enforcement gap

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Mar 2026
Massaha forest. Image by ZB.

How a community defended its ancestral forest from logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Mar 2026
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station.

Rush to put AI data centers in space poses poorly understood dangers

Sean Mowbray 11 Mar 2026

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

Spoorthy Raman 11 Mar 2026
The construction site of Bridge Data Centre's 0.2 GW QHI01 data center in Khlong Tamru subdistrict, Chonburi province, Thailand. Photo by Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Thai data center boom sparks fears of water shortage, air pollution

Gerald Flynn 11 Mar 2026
A pack of lions in Botswana.

DNA fingerprinting convicts Zimbabwe lion poachers in landmark case

Spoorthy Raman 5 Mar 2026

Counting bats in the dark

Sam Lee 4 Mar 2026

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