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Banner image of high river waters in Cardiff, Wales, by Sionk via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India, U.K. deal with storms that are ‘symptom of our changing climate’

Kristine Sabillo 28 Nov 2024
Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) at an aquarium in Norway in 2015. Herring

Leaders fail to address overfishing near Europe at ‘fraught’ international meeting

Edward Carver 22 Nov 2024

Slender-billed curlew, a bird last photographed in 1995, is likely extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2024
Salmon farms in Loch Ainort.

Scottish salmon farms seek growth despite mounting fish deaths and environmental concerns

Francesco De Augustinis 20 Nov 2024
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology’s Lappeenranta campus.

As nations develop circular economy plans, Finland’s top expert shares how they lead the way

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Nov 2024

Parties gutting EUDR received donations from companies tied to illegal deforestation: Report

Aimee Gabay 15 Nov 2024

Brazil to adopt full beef traceability by 2032 amid China, EU pressure

Shanna Hanbury 15 Nov 2024

EU delays and weakens anti-deforestation law, adding ‘no-risk’ loophole

Shanna Hanbury 14 Nov 2024
Banner image of deforestation in Malaysia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

WWF gives banks a tool to see if they’re financing environmental crime

Kristine Sabillo 14 Nov 2024
A reindeer strolls through a bog in northern Sweden. Image by Alexandre Buisse via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Will the new EU environment leader change Sweden’s conservation direction? (commentary)

Daniel Bengtsson 7 Nov 2024
A farmer extracts cacao beans from the pods in Colombia.

Is the delay of Europe’s deforestation regulation a cause for regret, or an opportunity? (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 5 Nov 2024
Banner image of Indonesian rainforest by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Mining drove 1.4m hectares of forest loss in last 2 decades: Report

Kristine Sabillo 5 Nov 2024

At least 94 dead as worst storm in decades hits Spain’s Valencia region

Shanna Hanbury 30 Oct 2024

Brazil minister rejects EU deforestation law despite postponement plans

Shanna Hanbury 29 Oct 2024

The Azores creates largest marine protected area network in the North Atlantic

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Oct 2024

Trial begins in U.K. for victims of Minas Gerais dam disaster

Maxwell Radwin 28 Oct 2024
Chevron oil field in Indonesia. Banner image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

NGO takes on BlackRock over ‘sustainable’ funds that prop up oil majors

Kristine Sabillo 25 Oct 2024
A European blackbird.

New study upends common belief that birds escape winter to save energy

Abhishyant Kidangoor 21 Oct 2024
A deforestated site in Edenton, North Carolina.

Delay of EU Deforestation Regulation may ‘be excuse to gut law,’ activists fear

Justin Catanoso 17 Oct 2024
Fire on the banks of the drought-stricken Xingu River in the Capoto-Jarina Indigenous Territory on September 12th, 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace.

With Europe’s move to delay tropical forest protections, everything burns (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 10 Oct 2024

In the dark of the night, sponges help possum shrimp ‘smell’ their way home

Liz Kimbrough 10 Oct 2024
An orca in Skjervøy, Norway.

Norway poised to sail past opposition with deep-sea mining licensing plans

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Oct 2024

EU considers postponing anti-deforestation law as pressure from agribusiness mounts

Maxwell Radwin 3 Oct 2024

NGOs say EU Commission must act on Greece oil activity in whale habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Oct 2024

Why the EU must stand firm on its plan to help protect the world’s forests (commentary)

Sam Lawson 19 Sep 2024
Eurasian lynx, courtesy of Parc Zoologique de Paris.

Sweden’s ‘nature friendly’ reputation is being shot to pieces (commentary)

Misha Istratov 4 Sep 2024

Famous ‘spy’ beluga whale found dead in Norway

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2024
Eurasian brown bear courtesy of Magnus Lundgren/Swedensbigfive.org.

Sweden greenlights hunt of nearly 500 bears, a fifth of total population

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Aug 2024

Tree bark removes atmospheric methane, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 16 Aug 2024
Cattle raising in recently destroyed forestland in the municipality Aripuanã, in Mato Grosso state.

Biden Administration mistakenly seeks delay of EU’s new deforestation regulation (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 13 Aug 2024

China is latest country to oppose EU regulation to track deforestation

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Aug 2024

Shark ‘Fitbit’ captures rare footage of collision with boat

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Aug 2024

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