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Urban greenspace in Bangkok

As tree planting gathers pace in Bangkok, urban green spaces still under threat

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jun 2025
Biyem-Assi is one of the most populous districts, with nearly 49,000 inhabitants, not far from the city center.

In Yaoundé, fecal sludge flows through ‘Caca Junction’ streets

Fanta Mabo 9 Jun 2025
Siphe Mlawuli getting ready to deliver an order in the Cape Town suburb of Parklands. Image by Barry Christianson for Mongabay.

Riding toward a greener future: E-bikes transform food delivery in South Africa

Barry Christianson 9 Jun 2025
Banner image: Schoolchildren walk to school in Niamey, Niger in 2013.

Urban forests in Niger’s schoolyards serve climate resilience and education

Victoria Schneider 26 May 2025
Red-throated bee-eaters (Merops bulocki), Pehonko, Benin. Image by Yves Bas via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

Africa’s growing cities are endangering birdlife (commentary)

Bello Adamu Danmallam 16 Apr 2025
Two people sit in conversation on a bench beside a path along a stream in Karurua forest, Nairobi, Kenya. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ninara/51944328733/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

African forum on urban forests calls for greater access to green spaces

Victoria Schneider 25 Mar 2025
Trees fallen due to winds and fooding.

Indonesia families evicted for Jakarta PIK2 project flooded at relocation site

Irfan Maulana 7 Mar 2025

Illegal sea fence displaces fishers and sparks land scandal near Jakarta

Irfan Maulana, M Ambari 3 Mar 2025

Illegal seabed dredging surges as Indonesia resumes sand exports

M Ambari, Yogi Eka Sahputra 20 Feb 2025
Malir River near Damloti check dam, Karachi suburbs.

Ecology vs. development in Karachi: Interview with photographer Salman Baloch

Waqas Alam Angaria 14 Feb 2025
Residents from Gwadar look on the sipping development at the coast.

Balochistan’s Gwadar city sits at the crossroads of climate and conflict

Waqas Alam Angaria 20 Dec 2024
Cityscape of Seattle, U.S., with trees in the foreground.

Cities are climate solution leaders: Interview with Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson

Justin Catanoso 22 Nov 2024
A firefighter wears a breathing mask after the Maui fire to protect himself from toxic vapors.

As global fire risk rises, modern homes become toxic plastic traps

Alden Wicker 14 Nov 2024
Farmer Rachael Njeri collects soils samples on her land. She has started growing forage strips on her farm which prevent soil erosion and provide feed for her cattle. Image by CIAT/GeorginaSmith via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

In Kenya, a river restoration initiative pays for itself, and then some

Ochieng' Ogodo 29 Oct 2024
Banner image: Tourists interact with birds at the Bouddhanath shrine in Kathmandu. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi

As Kathmandu’s birds get used to humans, biodiversity suffers, studies show

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Oct 2024

Javan fisherwomen lead fight against marine dredging amid fears of damage

Basten Gokkon 10 Oct 2024
River Bagmati flowing through a religious site.

Supreme Court decision on saving Kathmandu rivers stirs up heated reactions

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Sep 2024
Benjakitti Forest Park

Bangkok turns to urban forests to beat worsening floods

Claire Turrell 10 Sep 2024
Boys swim in the Buriganga River near Dhaka during a heat wave in May 2024.

Conserving & restoring waterways can mitigate extreme urban heat in Bangladesh

Riley Comstock 20 Aug 2024

Bali’s rapid coastal erosion threatens island’s ecosystems & communities: Study

Basten Gokkon 22 Jun 2024
Exhausted black kites

Black days for black kites in Bangladesh’s growing capital city

Sadiqur Rahman 10 Jun 2024
On May 29, 2024, five Mother Nature Cambodia activists stood trial on charges of plotting and insulting the king. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Trial begins for Mother Nature Cambodia activists on conspiracy charge

Gerald Flynn 29 May 2024
Clouded leopard

Borneo and Sumatra megaprojects are carving up clouded leopard forests

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2024
Bagmati River flowing through Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu.

Controversy brews over proposed dam on Kathmandu’s Bagmati River

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Feb 2024
Kuikuro men playing flutes.

The Amazon’s archaeology of hope: Q&A with anthropologist Michael Heckenberger

Peter Speetjens 18 Oct 2023
Syarak, the customary elder in Bumi Harapan, with his wife.

Elders call for Indigenous cultural preservation in new Indonesia capital

Muhammad Razil Fauzan 27 Jul 2023

São Paulo students plant mini-forests on school grounds as urban oases

Sibélia Zanon 18 Jul 2023

Opposition grows to Indonesia’s resumption of sea sand exports

Basten Gokkon, Sarjan Lahay 8 Jul 2023
Washington Square Park is another place to see birds in NYC.

Five ways to increase tree cover in cities (commentary)

Evan Beresford 6 Jul 2023
Women from a village in Bali in front of a house that preserves the traditional architecture with earthen wall on the front.

Indonesian architect presses vision for low-cost homes from nature

Moh Tahmini 29 Jun 2023
A boat merchant in the canals of Bangkok, Thailand.

For urban poor in Global South, nature-based solutions have always been a way to get by

Spoorthy Raman 8 Jun 2023

Experts, activists unite to blast Indonesia’s U-turn on sea sand exports

Basten Gokkon 6 Jun 2023

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