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Water scarcity has been a problem for Xochimilco residents for a long time, even before the recent drought, due to the overexploitation of its aquifers that supply neighboring urban areas and megaprojects.

Photos: Exploring Mexico City’s Aztec-era farms, the chinampas

Aimee Gabay 19 Jun 2024
Stilt mangrove roots in West Bengal's Sundarbans.

Caught in the net: Unchecked shrimp farming transforms India’s Sundarbans

Niladry Sarkar 19 Jun 2024
A Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) at a lake.

Crowdsourcing eDNA for biodiversity monitoring: Interview with Kristy Deiner

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 Jun 2024

Ancient farming system and campesino livelihoods at risk in Mexico City

Aimee Gabay 12 Jun 2024
Ecosystem destruction on Borneo peatlands.

Better accounting of peat and mangrove carbon to help Indonesia’s climate policies

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jun 2024

Water is key as study shows restoration of drained tropical peat is possible

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jun 2024

Scientists and farmers restore Aztec-era floating farms that house axolotls

Aminetth Sánchez 31 May 2024
Local and International organizations participated in the plantation.

Uzbekistan plants a forest where a sea once lay

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 May 2024
Catherine Toro

Tackling climate change in one of Colombia’s largest wetlands

César Giraldo 15 May 2024
A red-whiskered bulbul in Nijhum Dwip.

Bangladesh island’s switch from solar power to fossil fuels threatens birds

Sadiqur Rahman 14 May 2024

Fishers, scientists restore mangroves on a Mexican isle wrecked by salt mining

Astrid Arellano 13 May 2024
A fishing cat caught on camera wandering through a shrimp farm in Thailand, where wildcats can run into conflict with local communities.

Saving Asia’s fishing cat means protecting threatened wetland habitat

Sean Mowbray 9 May 2024
A fishing cat in mangroves.

Navigating the rise in conflicts between humans and fishing cats in Bangladesh

Mahadi Al Hasnat 25 Apr 2024
A fisher casts a net in Laguna, Brazil.

Traditional fishers’ expertise is valuable for scientific research, study says

Pedro Serra, Priscila Steffen 18 Apr 2024
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Costa Rican community struggles to stop an airport ‘destroying our country’

Alice Pistolesi, Monica Pelliccia 8 Apr 2024

Agribusiness bill moves to block grassland protections in Brazilian biomes

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Mar 2024
Saltwater crocodile

Tien Hai reserve saved from development in win for nature in Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 11 Mar 2024
A fisher casts a net in Laguna, Brazil.

Fishers’ memories on par with scientific data on historic catches: Study

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Mar 2024
Saltwater crocodile

Risks to Myanmar’s last saltwater crocs point to coastal conservation needs

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2024
Sarah Oginga harvesting papyrus reeds.

Livelihoods at stake as Lake Victoria’s papyrus swamps come under pressure: Photos

Patrick Newcombe 5 Feb 2024
Yuly Velásquez, an environmental defender from Barrancabermeja.

Courage & calm despite attacks: Q&A with Colombian activist Yuly Velásquez

Aimee Gabay 19 Jan 2024
Thailand flood, 2011

Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change

Carolyn Cowan 7 Dec 2023
Aerial view of the NGOWP team's mekoro along the Cuando River.

New study pushes for protection of one of Africa’s ‘least understood treasures’

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2023
Villagers of Muanda.

Oil firm Perenco eyes new blocks in DRC amid criticism of its track record

Elodie Toto 24 Oct 2023
A black-headed ibis

Tien Hai Nature Reserve latest battleground in Vietnam’s push for development

Michael Tatarski 22 Sep 2023

Fisherwomen fight plan for coastal salt farms on Indonesia’s Madura Island

Moh. Tamimi 22 Sep 2023
A biodiverse island in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

For the oceans, global community must fund Sustainable Development Goal 14 (commentary)

Eric Schwaab 18 Sep 2023
Long-tailed macaque. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Skepticism as Cambodia expands protected areas by more than a million hectares

Gerald Flynn 29 Aug 2023
Activist Duduzile Dludla of Makhasaneni, standing in front of her home and an umbombe or forest strangler-fig (Ficus natalensis)

South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans

Dimitri Selibas 28 Aug 2023

Tropical lakes are carbon super sinks, even more than forests, study shows

Evanildo da Silveira 18 Aug 2023
A stream in a forest in Jambi.

In Sumatra’s Jambi, community forest managers fish to protect peatlands

Lili Rambe 2 Aug 2023
The Manobo Houses float along the waterways of Lake Panlabuhan in the Agusan Marsh.

Philippines’ largest freshwater wetland and Indigenous livelihoods face multiple threats

Jewel S. Cabrera 26 Jul 2023

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