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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
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
Researcher Ben Williams deploys a hydrophone on a degraded coral reef in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Tim Lamont.

Blast fishing destroys reefs. Underwater microphones can help detect it

Syris Valentine 26 Aug 2026

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

Naina Rao 26 Aug 2026

Can big tech stop wildlife crime?

Sam Lee 26 Aug 2026
A group of Dayak women weavers look for leaves for natural dyes in the forest.

Indonesia integrates Indigenous data in bid to put customary lands on map

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2026
Brazil’s unique data center boom rides on clean power despite social burden

Brazil’s unique data center boom rides on clean power despite social burden

Laís Martins, Naira Hofmeister, Francisco Amorim 24 Aug 2026
Wind energy surplus fuels unregulated data centers in Brazil's dry land

Wind energy surplus fuels unregulated data centers in Brazil’s dry land

Laís Martins 24 Aug 2026
Many think of wildlife corridors as connected landscapes, but across the globe, animals on land, in freshwater, in the sea and in the skies need to be able to safely move to find food, water, to find a mate and reproduce. Flyways are aerial avian corridors. Image by AP Photos/Jae C. Hong.

Reconnecting the skies: Linking flyways for migratory seabirds across continents

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 Aug 2026
Xray fin shark (wildlife trade)

Spotted by AI: seahorses and shark fins

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Aug 2026
A scarlet macaw (Ara macao)

How AI helps gather remote biodiversity data: Interview with Microsoft’s Juan Lavista Ferres

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 Aug 2026

Nepal enlists AI to help fight against crop-raiding macaques

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2026
A lion in Zambia.

World Lion Day: The communities living with lions

Mongabay.com 10 Aug 2026
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest in July 2026. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Amazon deforestation alerts fall to lowest level since 2013, Brazilian data show

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Aug 2026
A flock of snow geese.

From radar blobs to bird species, AI helps transform migration tracking

Abhishyant Kidangoor 6 Aug 2026

New fire satellites offer hope for Amazon and other biomes, but local barriers remain

Benjamin Swift 30 Jul 2026

How can Indigenous knowledge reshape AI development?

Mongabay.com 30 Jul 2026

Tech helps Vietnam rangers turn the tide on poaching

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2026
A data center under construction in Chonburi province, Thailand, that local residents said is being built to host Google and TikTok servers, in December 2025. Photo by Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Thai MP calls for new committee to scrutinize AI data centers’ environmental impact

Gerald Flynn 27 Jul 2026

As Australia expands seismic testing, experts warn of profound effects on sealife

Theoné van der Merwe 22 Jul 2026
A mixed flock of curlew sandpipers and gray plovers feed in shallow water at the salt mine in Velddrif, in South Africa’s Western Cape province, where the team captured 20 sandpipers and three plovers for the tracking project. Image courtesy of Cassie Carstens.

Tiny trackers reveal where migratory shorebirds need protection across Africa

Ryan Truscott 20 Jul 2026

Can ‘fog harvesting’ help solve water scarcity in Chile’s Atacama Desert?

Maxwell Radwin 17 Jul 2026

Nepal’s birdwatchers can fill gaps in conservation data

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2026
Grist / Getty Images / Dionne Phillips.

Indigenous advocates push for rights protections around AI data centers

Aimee Gabay 16 Jul 2026
Polar bear mother with two cubs on a snowy sandbank in northern Alaska.

‘Bear-dar’ aims to give Arctic communities a heads-up on nearby polar bears

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Jul 2026
A rhesus macaque eats an orange in Kathmandu. Image by Rachid H via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Monkey vs machine: Nepal tests AI to fight crop-raiding macaques

Praveen Kumar Yadav 13 Jul 2026

Southeast Asian mangroves shift from historic decline to net growth

Naina Rao 13 Jul 2026
Seagrass meadows, pictured above, play a critical role in carbon sequestration and protecting coastlines.

Scientists use AI to produce first high-resolution map of global seagrass extent

Abhishyant Kidangoor 10 Jul 2026
Anti-poaching officers and Forest rangers in Pu Mat

‘A targeted, data-driven approach’: Interview with Vietnam’s antipoaching unit

Campbell Rusden 7 Jul 2026

In AI race, Indigenous values could guide environmental issues, researchers suggest

Shradha Triveni 7 Jul 2026
A spiny babbler (Turdoides nipalensis), the only bird species endemic to Nepal.

Nepal’s birdwatchers help monitor wildlife and promote tourism

Bibek Bhandari 6 Jul 2026
The Congo Basin is home to critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis).

Can selective logging help the Congo Basin store more carbon?

Claudia Geib 2 Jul 2026

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