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Grassroots efforts sprout up to protect Central America’s Trifinio watershed

Maxwell Radwin 16 Dec 2024
Second edition YOFAFA Conference in Yaounde. Image by Leocadia Bongben.

Young people in Africa call for a fair increase in funding for climate adaptation

Leocadia Bongben 16 Dec 2024
Amazon Rainforest

Brazil paper and pulp industry invests in blockchain to comply with EUDR

Karla Mendes 16 Dec 2024

High-flying concessions: Clandestine airstrips, coca crops invade Ucayali’s forests

Mongabay Latam 16 Dec 2024
Hylomys macarong, a smooth hedgehog

Greater Mekong serves up 234 new species in a year, from fanged hedgehog to diva viper

Carolyn Cowan 16 Dec 2024
Timber illegally extracted from the Amazon by Ricardo Stoppe's group was sold to the USA and Europe.

Illegal timber from Amazon carbon credit projects reached Europe, U.S.

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Dec 2024

Study looks for success factors in African projects that heal land and help people

Ruth Kamnitzer 13 Dec 2024
The illegal trade is still one of the greatest threats to hawksbills, according to the April 2020 Global Tortoiseshell Report.

Illegal cockfighting threatens endangered sea turtles across Central America

Tina Deines 13 Dec 2024
A Climeworks employee stands next to the company’s Mammoth facility in Iceland.

Direct air capture climate solution faces harsh criticism, steep challenges

Sean Mowbray 13 Dec 2024

Monarch butterflies proposed for U.S. federal protection

Bobby Bascomb 13 Dec 2024

Recycling gold can tackle illegal mining in the Amazon, but is no silver bullet

Sarah Brown 13 Dec 2024

Climate change fuels African floods that hit harder in vulnerable regions

Fanta Mabo 13 Dec 2024
red shanked douc

Vietnam’s mammals need conservation within and outside their range: Study

Carolyn Cowan 13 Dec 2024

Foreign investor lawsuits impede Honduras human rights & environment protections

Sarah Brown 12 Dec 2024

Water returns to Amazon rivers amid historic drought

Shanna Hanbury 12 Dec 2024
Banner image of four storms over the Western Pacific Ocean in November 2024, by NASA Earth Observatory via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Philippines’ ‘extraordinary’ typhoon season was climate-fueled: Scientists

Kristine Sabillo 12 Dec 2024

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Annelise Giseburt 12 Dec 2024

Peru’s modern history of migration and settlement

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Dec 2024

Communities warn of threat to ecosystems from Brazil bridge project

Lobato Felizola 12 Dec 2024

Kenya embraces electric buses to combat air pollution

Stephanie Wangari 12 Dec 2024
A snow leopard photographed in Nepal. Imagine by Sanjog Rai/WWF Nepal

In 2024, Nepal’s elusive snow leopards pounce into spotlight

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Dec 2024
Banner image of a Palau nautilus, courtesy of the Ocean Exploration Trust.

Research vessel E/V Nautilus spots multiple nautiluses for the first time

Kristine Sabillo 12 Dec 2024
A pale spear-nosed bat covered in pollen.

Brazil natural landscape degradation drives toxic metal buildup in bats

Sean Mowbray 11 Dec 2024

UN sets guidelines for conservation groups to safeguard human rights

Bobby Bascomb 11 Dec 2024

Regifting and thrifting for sustainable holiday gift ideas

Bobby Bascomb 11 Dec 2024

Andes glacier melt threatens Amazon’s rivers & intensifies droughts

Amanda Magnani 11 Dec 2024
Chhoeung Chheng attending the Siem Reap Water Festival in November 2024. Image courtesy of Facebook.

Environmental journalist in Cambodia shot and killed by suspected logger

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 11 Dec 2024

Time for a ‘moral reckoning’ of aquaculture’s environmental impacts

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 10 Dec 2024
Crew members from Southeast Asia work to unload fish on purse seiners in the Western Pacific Ocean in 2023.

First-of-its-kind crew welfare measure adopted at Pacific fisheries summit

Edward Carver 10 Dec 2024

Spain adopts paid ‘climate leave’ policy following deadly floods

Shanna Hanbury 10 Dec 2024

Deadlocked plastic treaty talks will lead to renewed negotiations in 2025

Charles Pekow 10 Dec 2024

‘We have incredible & applicable solutions’: Interview with Peter Houlihan of XPRIZE

Abhishyant Kidangoor 10 Dec 2024

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