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Red Sea coastal landscape. Image courtesy of Marwan Mahmoud Kamal Hamdoun.

Egypt’s deserts show why ecological knowledge matters in conservation (commentary)

Marwan Mahmoud Kamal Hamdoun 19 Aug 2026
A mudskipper with turquoise spots, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Egyptian teens use robots for ‘smarter and more responsive’ way to protect Earth

Victoria Schneider 14 May 2026
A black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina), which is found within the African-Eurasian flyway.

Up to half the bird species using the African-Eurasian flyway are declining

Wilson Odhiambo 8 May 2026
Inauguration of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Sept. 9, 2025).

Ethiopia’s Renaissance mega-dam fuels energy hopes and regional anxiety

Elodie Toto 6 Feb 2026
Soda schweinfurthii, a desert subshrub, native to arid regions from Egypt to the Arabian Peninsula.

Can we create new inland seas to lower sea level rise? Interview with researcher Amir AghaKouchak

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2025
Abu Nessma at the café by the sea.

‘A very successful story’: An Egypt tribe welcomes tourists & protects its coast

Victoria Schneider 27 Oct 2025

Egyptian activists rally to halt hotel project at pristine protected beach

Victoria Schneider 30 Sep 2025
Maltese Falcon Poachers: European hunters endanger Egypt's birds

Maltese Falcon Poachers: European hunters endanger Egypt’s birds

Mahmoud Elsobky, Wael El-Sayegh 2 Apr 2025
Mothers and children wait in Changanine community (Chibuto District), Mozambique to collect their seeds from the Red Cross. The community has been hit very hard by the current drought, many have lost their crops and locals have to walk up to five kilometres to dig for water. Image by Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville / IFRC via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Climate change threatens public health, raising the spread of food-borne diseases

Leocadia Bongben 15 Aug 2024
A middle-aged man in a dark gray shirt lifts an armload of water hyacinth. Image by Abd Almajed Alkarh for Mongabay.

From Egypt to Syria, ‘water cancer’ chokes waterways

Abd Almajed Alkarh, Lyse Mauvais 30 May 2024

COP27 boosts carbon trading and ‘non-market’ conservation: But can they save forests?

Alec Luhn 22 Nov 2022

COP27: ‘Brazil is back’ to fight deforestation, Lula says, but hurdles await

Alec Luhn 17 Nov 2022

COP27: Climate Loss & Damage talks now on agenda, but U.S. resistance feared

Rachel Donald 8 Nov 2022

Dust and blood: Climate-induced conflict fuels migration, study finds

Nina Finley 29 Mar 2019

Global biodiversity treaty still searches for its moment in the spotlight

Isabel Esterman 3 Dec 2018

Deforested, degraded land restoration a top priority for African leaders

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2018

In post-revolution Egypt, a fierce fight over coal imports

Louise Sarant 5 Apr 2017

Fishing nets kill ‘high proportion’ of adult loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Apr 2016

Two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have reliable access to fresh water

Mike Gaworecki 15 Feb 2016

Click to like this: Is Instagram a hub for illegal ape deals?

Christopher Haslett 10 Dec 2015

Egyptian art helps chart past extinctions of big mammals

Kim Smuga-Otto 1 Dec 2014

Richest countries spent $74 billion on fossil fuel subsidies in 2011, eclipsing climate finance by seven times

Jeremy Hance 13 Nov 2013

Earth systems disruption: Does 2011 indicate the “new normal” of climate chaos and conflict?

Ryan King 21 Dec 2011

Numerous causes, including climate change, behind record food prices

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2011

Egyptian jackal is actually ancient wolf

Jeremy Hance 26 Jan 2011

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