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Soy giants quietly prepare for EU deforestation law; impacts still uncertain

Marina Martinez 12 Nov 2025
A squirrel in Central Park.

What Central Park’s Squirrel Census says about conservation tech: Interview with Okala’s Robin Whytock

Abhishyant Kidangoor 12 Nov 2025

Radioactive rhinos (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 11 Nov 2025
Algal bloom in the Baltic Sea on July 20, 2019.

‘Not good’: Ocean losing its greenness, threatening food webs

Edward Carver 10 Nov 2025
Natural forests, like this one in Indonesia, contain hundreds of native species that all contribute to the ecosystem services they provide. Protecting standing forests is quicker and cheaper than replanting lost ones. Many forests can regenerate on their own with a little assistance, but where tree planting is needed, it must aim to restore natural diversity and support local communities. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Tech for the Trees

Mongabay.com 10 Nov 2025
A man wearing a face mask reads newspaper outside a shopping mall in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in January 2021. Malaysian authorities imposed tighter restrictions on movement to try to halt the spread of COVID-19. Image by AP Photo/Vincent Thian.

Strong ethics set journalists apart in a changing information landscape (commentary)

Lee Kwai Han 7 Nov 2025

Expedition charts Cook Islands seafloor, amid scrutiny over mining motives

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Nov 2025
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.

No, Bill Gates, we don’t have to choose between people & planet (commentary)

Mary Robinson 6 Nov 2025
By fusing satellite, drone and ground-based data with AI-powered analytics, Earth observation systems now provide meter-scale insights (or finer) for key human-driven environmental impacts.

Report identifies 10 emerging tech solutions to enhance planetary health

Julian Reingold 4 Nov 2025
Puerto Caimán Island in the Curare-Los Ingleses Indigenous Reserve’s conservation area.

Indigenous communities protect Colombia’s uncontacted peoples

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Nov 2025
Rainforest in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Beyond deforestation: redesigning how we protect and value tropical forests (analysis)

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2025
Banyan tree in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

What might lie ahead for tropical forests (analysis)

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Nov 2025
Annual deforestation in the Legal Amazon (Amazonia) from 1988-2025, according to a preliminary estimate from Brazil's national space research institute, INPE.

Heading into COP, Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate is falling. What about fires?

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Oct 2025

In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone

Madalitso Wills Kateta 30 Oct 2025
A humpback whale

Australia celebrates ‘humpback comeback,’ but a main food source is under threat

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Oct 2025
An elephant in Assam's Kaziranga National Park. India's Assam state has one of the highest incidents of human-elephant conflicts.

AI system eavesdrops on elephants to prevent deadly encounters in India

Spoorthy Raman 23 Oct 2025
Jorian Hendricks in the forest of Brito Ulu, Indonesian Borneo, taking field notes in his notebook while using a directional microphone to record the sounds of the forest.

Primatology goes high tech — from bioacoustics to drones & AI

Manuel Fonseca 21 Oct 2025
Willie Shubert in Madagascar with lemurs at a rehabilitation center. Note: visitors are not permitted to touch lemurs, but lemurs do as they please. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Measuring success in trees, not clicks

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Oct 2025
Illustration by Sara Arredondo – Baudó Agencia Pública.

Indigenous monitoring project helps protect isolated peoples in Colombia’s Amazon

Pilar Puentes 16 Oct 2025
Photos of orcas captured using drones in Alaska.

Drone surveys offer early warnings on whale health and survival

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Oct 2025
After a game of beach footvolley on a sweltering hot day in Beirut, Lebanon, a man cools off by pouring water on himself.

Feel the heat: New app maps heat stress anywhere on Earth, 1940 to now

Ruth Kamnitzer 15 Oct 2025
Cacao illegally farmed inside Côte d’Ivoire’s Cavally Forest Reserve. Image courtesy of Mighty Earth.

A cacao rush drives ‘alarming’ deforestation in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Oct 2025
A gray wolf in Europe. Image by Mikkel Houmøller via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Study busts big bad myth that wolves are growing fearless of humans

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Oct 2025

In Panama, poison dart frog move brings hope amid amphibians’ fight with fungus

Sam Meadows 8 Oct 2025
Willie Shubert in Madagascar with lemurs at a rehabilitation center. Note: visitors are not permitted to touch lemurs, but lemurs do as they please. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Building a global newsroom for a planet in crisis: A conversation with Willie Shubert

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2025
In just a few months, Global Green have cleared vast swathes of forest in Prey Lang, opening the northern section of the wildlife sanctuary up to more potential deforestation. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024

Gerald Flynn 6 Oct 2025
A herd of wildebeests.

Scientists rethink Serengeti migration numbers with satellite, AI tools

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Oct 2025
A participant plants local green plants in a park as part of Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative, which aims to plant 7.5 billion trees by the end of the year, at Jifara Ber site, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday, July 31, 2025.

There’s far less land available for reforestation than we think, study finds

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2025
A young Rostain takes a break along a river in French Guiana, where he started his archaeological career in the late 1980s.

Indigenous myths reveal Amazon’s past truths: Interview with Stéphen Rostain

Peter Speetjens 1 Oct 2025
DJ Edwin Carrasco, known in the artistic world as Tayta Bird, recording sounds of a rainforest.

DJs inspired by nature

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2025
Bouba Ndjida is one of the only sites in Central Africa where we are seeing the early signs of recovery in the population.

Northern Cameroon’s lions are reproducing, but concerns remain

Leocadia Bongben 30 Sep 2025
Tracking dog

To track a unicorn: Laos team goes all out to find the last saolas

Carolyn Cowan 30 Sep 2025

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