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Researcher Raquel Peixoto inoculating probiotics on bleached coral during a 2022 heat wave in the Red Sea. Image courtesy of Morgan Benett-Smith.

Probiotics prevented coral bleaching during a Red Sea heat wave: Study

Allessandra DiCorato 2 Oct 2026
The Kutuk River in Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska.

Permafrost, wetland, wildfire and freshwater emissions could amplify climate change by up to 30%, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 2 Oct 2026

How to grow $25K into community-led conservation: Interview with Tanzania’s Mwambao

David Akana 2 Oct 2026
An apartment demolition and remodeling worker pushes a cart loaded with rubble in Hong Kong on Sept. 18, 2026.

As Hong Kong heats up, calls grow for tougher rules to protect outdoor workers

June Wong 2 Oct 2026
A maleo

Wildlife traffickers are now targeting Indonesia’s critically endangered maleo birds

Spoorthy Raman 2 Oct 2026
A resident is extinguishing a fire at Talang Turunan Gajah using simple tools. Photo: Muhammad Akbar/Mongabay Indonesia.

As fires spread, Indonesia’s rubber growers draw on traditional ways to fight back

Taufik Wijaya 2 Oct 2026
A low tide on hermit crab amid mangrove roots.

Mangroves keep waves at bay. A new study helps scientists predict how

Isabel Gil 1 Oct 2026
A black-faced lion tamarin photographed during the yellow fever vaccination project conducted by SPVS. Image by Gabriel Marchi.

A first in Brazil: Black-faced lion tamarins vaccinated

Euan Marshall 1 Oct 2026

US-Argentina initiative aims to boost critical mineral, oil and gas exports

Maxwell Radwin 1 Oct 2026
Stéphanie Moussounda, known as Maman Djédjé, a Gabonese traditional practitioner and initiatory mother, president of the Fédération nationale des traditionalistes gabonais (FENATRAG) and second vice-president of COARITRAG, at her temple in Gabon. Image by Molly Helfend for Mongabay.

Gabon, home to the medicinal plant behind ibogaine, wants a fairer share of its global boom

Molly Helfend 1 Oct 2026
Dolphins use whistles to communicate with each other and rapid clicking sounds to locate prey. Image courtesy of NOAA.

Dolphins keep their social and hunting lives in separate waters, study finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 Oct 2026
Jane Goodall in 2024. Courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute.

A year ago today, Jane Goodall died at 91. Her message is more important than ever

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2026
Giraffes roam Kenya’s open savannas, part of the rich wildlife that draws visitors and makes ecotourism an important source of revenue for conservation and local communities. Image by Angela Scott.

From ‘community-based’ to ‘community-led conservation’ in Kenya: Interview with Dickson Kaelo

David Akana 1 Oct 2026
Two Spix’s macaws

Vantara in talks with Brazil on ‘strategic cooperation’ on threatened species, FOIA documents reveal

Fernanda Wenzel, Spoorthy Raman 1 Oct 2026

Indonesia’s new peatland agency faces questions over what it will do differently

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Oct 2026
Mineral traders watch on as antimony ore is transferred from Myanmar trucks to Thai trucks at the Pheung Khleung border crossing. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Myanmar’s polluting mines selling to China through Thai companies

Gerald Flynn 1 Oct 2026
Adult southern mountain yellow-legged frogs in the headstarting facility at the Los Angeles Zoo.

New releases a leap forward for endangered frog in southern California

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 Sep 2026
A mother Philippine eagle, Aya, and her young, Cabuaya, at Mount Hamiguitan in their nest in 2005.

Philippine eagle habitat study maps mining risks and conservation priorities

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Sep 2026

Global experts gather in Sri Lanka for historic first World Congress on Snakes

30 Sep 2026
An earless monitor lizard, endemic to Borneo.

Illegal wildlife continues to slip through Canada’s borders. Experts explain how

Alex Megerle 30 Sep 2026

In Brazil’s Acre, calls for new roads clash with deforestation commitments

Constance Malleret 30 Sep 2026
2015’s very strong El Niño triggered a prolonged drought and humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia.

Evidence builds showing climate change could be intensifying El Niño events

Sean Mowbray 30 Sep 2026
Lions (Panthera leo). Image by Julie Larsen © Wildlife Conservation Society.

Turning vulnerable livestock into four-eyed beasts helps protect them in Zimbabwe

Cecil Dzwowa 30 Sep 2026
Children belonging to the Karamojong ethnic group in Karamoja, Uganda, help with household chores.

Uganda pastoralists turn to wild plants as food shortages bite, study finds

Kingsley Charles 29 Sep 2026
A humpback whale back surrounded by murres and other seabirds off the coast of Alaska, with a fishing vessel in background. As warm waters reduced offshore krill, whales moved closer to the coast, where crab fishers set their traps and cast their nets, leading to a spike in whale entanglements.

New global maps chart 40 years of ocean heat and acidification extremes

María Paula Rubiano A. 29 Sep 2026
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Despite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the Mekong

Gerald Flynn 29 Sep 2026

Sri Lanka’s disappearing snake charmers carry a legacy of fear and fascination

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Sep 2026
A yellow-eyed penguin.

As yellow-eyed penguins disappear, conservationists focus on deaths in fishing nets

Edward Carver 28 Sep 2026
Kurt Benirschke, founder of San Diego Zoo’s Frozen Zoo

Preserving wildlife DNA for the future: Interview with the Frozen Zoo’s Katie Heineman

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 Sep 2026

Indonesia passes agrarian reform law amid concerns over land protections

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Sep 2026
Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) with a joey in its pouch on the beach at Trial Bay in New South Wales, Australia.

As Australia’s kangaroo numbers rise, record cull renews calls for other control methods

Cooper Williams 28 Sep 2026
A bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma) on a reef bed by Pulau Hantu

Singapore’s plan to merge several islands could wipe out coral reefs

Robin Hicks 28 Sep 2026

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