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Researchers found hermit crabs scuttling across some of the study’s 240 plots. Photo credit: Sebastian Steibl

Insects and other invertebrates on tropical islands face challenges as development and tourism expand

Brittney J. Miller 29 Nov 2021

Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Sep 2021

As populations grow, how will thirsty cities survive their drier futures?

Petro Kotzé 18 Aug 2021

As humans close in on their habitat, crocodiles in the Philippines snap back

Chelsy Mae Abdulmuti 20 Jul 2021
black-tailed godwits (Limosa limosa) in a fight for their territory in Mangalajodi Wetlands (Chilika - Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention), Odisha, India. By Arijit Mondal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Researchers urge better protection as wetlands continue to vanish

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Feb 2021

The promise of ‘bird-friendly’ cities: Q&A with author Timothy Beatley

John Cannon 30 Nov 2020
Grey-headed fish eagle. Image by David Li.

Singapore embarks on a million-tree planting spree to protect its future

Claire Turrell 9 Oct 2020

Missing mangroves are root of contention over Philippine airport project

Leilani Chavez, Susan Claire Agbayani 17 Sep 2020

Discovery of threatened species drives bid to protect Vietnam forest

Michael Tatarski 1 Sep 2020
Washington Square Park is another place to see birds in NYC.

Finding nature in cities

Mike Gaworecki 22 Jul 2020

As lockdown ends, Manila’s dirty air is back. It doesn’t have to stay

Mavic Conde 19 Jun 2020

Nature needs cities, and cities need nature (commentary)

Johan Robinson 15 Jun 2020

Insects decline on land, fare better in water, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 8 May 2020

A watery onslaught from sea, sky and land in the world’s fastest-sinking city

Johan Augustin 27 Apr 2020

‘Intense’ human pressure is widespread among terrestrial vertebrates, study finds

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2020

Decolonizing trees in a tropical city to nurture multi-cultural identity

Carinya Sharples 13 Sep 2019

For Indonesia’s Kendari Bay, silting is a death sentence

Ian Morse 28 Aug 2019

Environmental justice and urban rat infestations

Mike Gaworecki 6 Aug 2019

West Nile virus lingers longer in birds exposed to light pollution

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2019
Mekong River landscape. Image by WWF-Cambodia.

As Cambodia swelters, climate-change suspicion falls on deforestation

Michael Tatarski 17 Jun 2019

Cities may save some species from extinction, but they don’t save species’ ecological functions

Mike Gaworecki 19 Apr 2019

The view from the bottleneck: Is nature poised for a big comeback?

Jeremy Hance 18 Feb 2019

Urbanization in Asia provides a window of hope for tigers, study finds

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2019

Cities could help conserve pollinator communities

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2019
rhino and car

Rhinos or roads? Nepal deals with a tricky balancing act

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Jan 2019

Indigenous stewardship is critical to success of protected areas (commentary)

Michael Painter | David Wilkie | James Watson 25 Jul 2018

‘Urban Raptors’: Q&A with authors of book on ecology and conservation of city-dwelling birds of prey

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jun 2018

US urban areas are losing 36 million trees every year, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2018

Cities need forests too: A call for forests amid our concrete jungles (commentary)

Alistair Monument 21 Mar 2018

Leopards could reduce rabies by controlling stray dog numbers in India, study finds

Mongabay.com 21 Mar 2018
Arley Estupiñan walks towards his house at night. Photo by Ana Cristina Vallejo with permission.

The uncertain future of Bogotá’s shantytowns

Maximo Anderson 16 Nov 2017

Urban heat island effect could more than double climate costs for cities

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jun 2017

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