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Rare fungi help restore Palmyra Atoll rainforests, new study finds. Here’s how

Naina Rao 3 Jul 2026

A marine heat wave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off

Associated Press 1 Jul 2026

Fossils reveal a prehistoric crocodile relative that walked on two legs

David Brown 30 Jun 2026

One mountain lion changed the food web in a California suburb, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jun 2026
Mel Sunquist

Mel Sunquist, field biologist and mentor to generations of conservationists

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jun 2026

Trump admin persists in quixotic quest against wind power despite legal defeat

Bobby Bascomb 25 Jun 2026
While caracals are classified as species of least concern overall, some populations are seriously declining, with some local extinctions; rodenticides join habitat loss, hunting, conflict with humans and other threats to their survival.

Rodent-killing baits threaten small wild cats and other wildlife

Sean Mowbray 23 Jun 2026

Trump administration repeals rule that allowed bison to graze on public lands

Bobby Bascomb 17 Jun 2026

Eastern Washington wildfire forces evacuations and destroys homes

Associated Press 17 Jun 2026

Rain along the Gulf Coast could become the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season

Associated Press 16 Jun 2026
Peter Klopfer. Photo by Anne Yoder

Peter Klopfer, the scientist whose civil-rights case helped bring lemurs to Duke

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jun 2026

Lawmakers fight to stop the Trump administration’s dismantling of a $386M ocean observatory project

Associated Press 15 Jun 2026
A Mexican long-tongued bat feeds from an agave flower in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, U.S. Image courtesy of Peter Hudson.

The bats that pollinate for tequila: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 15 Jun 2026
RAN Burger King protest in 1987. Image courtesy of Rainforest Action Network

How an activist network built pressure without political power

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jun 2026

Solar power hits new milestones in the US even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy

Associated Press 10 Jun 2026
Wild horses gallop on the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation near McDermitt, Nevada. Image by AP Photo / Rick Bowmer.

U.S. defense spending on critical minerals surges in the last decade

Aimee Gabay 10 Jun 2026
Deep-sea glass squid

Experts say ‘bare bones’ US laws are unfit to regulate nascent deep-sea mining industry

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Jun 2026

US set to hold latest oil and gas lease sale for Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Associated Press 5 Jun 2026

Pilot project in San Francisco Bay aims to help ships avoid gray whales

David Brown 4 Jun 2026

Scientists warn of climate blind spot as U.S. dismantles ocean sensors

Naina Rao 4 Jun 2026

Can deforestation predict Ebola outbreaks? Q&A with CDC’s Carson Telford

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Jun 2026
Will Hackman at an Earth Day event in Washington, D.C. He argues that effective climate messaging should be framed around protecting people and communities, rather than saving the planet. Photo courtesy of Will Hackman.

New book offers tips to translate climate science into political gains

David Akana 2 Jun 2026
Harbor seals

Fisheries and climate research would be hit hard in Trump’s proposed budget

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jun 2026
Model of Jiaolong submersible at the Five-Year Achievements Exhibition. Image by N509FZ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How we tracked China’s deep-sea mining fleet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Kara Fox 1 Jun 2026
Yakama leader Davis Yellowash Washines

Davis “Yellowash” Washines, Yakama elder who spoke for the river and salmon

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 May 2026
Deep-sea starfish in American Samoa

US prepares to auction leases for seabed mining blocks in federal waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 May 2026
Banner image of Myanmar teak courtesy of EIA.

Luxury yacht maker Sunseeker pleads guilty to violating a US environmental law

Naina Rao 27 May 2026
Endangered subspecies Southern resident orcas (Orcinus orca ater). Image by ywcai via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

AI listens for endangered orcas to help reduce underwater noise exposure

Mongabay.com 22 May 2026
The Mill Creek coal-fired power plant in the U.S. state of Kentucky is owned and operated by Louisville Gas & Electric. Image by Willian Alden via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

World burned less coal in 2025, but built more plants over energy uncertainty

Ashoka Mukpo 21 May 2026

Three baby pumas born in Minnesota, US, is a first in more than 100 years

Bobby Bascomb 20 May 2026
A fever of mobula rays photographed underwater in June 2025. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

A fever of mobula rays off Mexico’s coast: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 20 May 2026

Texas man convicted of buying eagle parts from a wildlife trafficking ring

David Brown 19 May 2026

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