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Grey-necked rockfowl (Picathartes oreas) in Cameroon. Image © Niall Perrins via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/331794149 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Rare bird finding strengthens case to protect Congo rainforest across borders

Ryan Truscott 26 Oct 2026
A male great hornbill approaches the nest in which its mate stays with the eggs or chicks.

Bangladesh’s hornbills face hunting risk during breeding season

Sifayet Ullah 26 Oct 2026
Lin Kuang-li stands among his Ch’ing-hsin oolong tea plants in Longyanlin village

Taiwan’s tea growers let nature take back control as climate pressures mount

Aylin Ho 26 Oct 2026
Lobe coral (Porites lobata).

Corals keep a record of pollution, pointing to a new monitoring method: Study

Edward Carver 26 Oct 2026

A millennium of evidence reveals colonial roots of Australia’s wildfire vulnerability

Naina Rao 26 Oct 2026
“Cooking gas cylinder…”: An artist draws cooking gas cylinders on a roadside fence near a gas retail outlet in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, where the use of LPG for cooking has risen in the last decade. Image by Ini Ekott for Mongabay.

5 million Nigerians gain clean cooking access annually, but it’s not enough, experts say

Ini Ekott 26 Oct 2026

International Gibbon Day: Stories of threats and survival  

Mongabay 24 Oct 2026

Sri Lanka mourns iconic tusker amid renewed calls to address human-elephant conflict

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Oct 2026
A collage featuring a Polish soldier and Białowieża Forest.

Restoring a 12,000-year-old forest to help defend Poland’s border

Marta Kasztelan, Sandy Watt, Andy Ball 24 Oct 2026
Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)

World Kangaroo Day: How climate change impacts Australia’s macropods

Cooper Williams 24 Oct 2026

Mozambique safari operator wins conservation award at COP17

David Akana 23 Oct 2026
Arzu Begum stands by the door of her house in the poor Mirpur area of Dhaka in July, 2022.

Bangladesh’s climate migrants are arriving in cities unprepared to protect them

Usraat Fahmidah 23 Oct 2026
Federal environmental civil servants mobilize to reelect Lula, warning the public about environmental risks if the Bolsonaro clan returns to power. Image courtesy of Ascema Nacional.

Environmental officials fear new wave of harassment if Flavio Bolsonaro wins in Brazil

Karla Mendes 23 Oct 2026

Critics call for halt to road construction in Mexico’s Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 23 Oct 2026
The Arazaire community is split in two, bisected by the Inambari River. On the river's left bank, where residents once had agricultural plots, forest, and ceremonial lagoons, the landscape is now dominated by mercury-laden ponds and deforestation.

Amazon communities lose water as mining and deforestation reshape rivers

Vanessa Romo 23 Oct 2026
Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 1988-2026, according to INPE.

What if Flávio Bolsonaro wins? High stakes for the environment in Brazil’s 2026 elections (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 23 Oct 2026

Nearly all the world’s coral reefs are at risk of collapse within 50 years, IUCN warns

David Brown 23 Oct 2026

COP17: Open letter urges governments to keep extractives out of protected areas

David Akana 23 Oct 2026

Taiwan shuts schools and grounds flights as Typhoon Champi brushes by

Associated Press 23 Oct 2026

Death of iconic elephant in Sri Lanka pushes authorities to fast-track protection efforts

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 23 Oct 2026
A man rides a bicycle through thick haze caused by wildfires in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Oct. 23, 2026.

Indonesians allege social media posts on wildfires and haze are being censored

Winda Charmila 23 Oct 2026
Women from the Missão Tiriyó village in the Tumucumaque Park Indigenous Territory. Image courtesy of the Iepé Institute archive.

Two Indigenous Brazilians denied their language interpreter at election voting booth

Shanna Hanbury 23 Oct 2026

Two decades after crash, Nepal still searching for new generation of conservation visionaries

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2026
Leandrea Taylor Reeves. Image courtesy of Eillin Delapaz/Our Children’s Trust.

Ahead of landmark climate trial in Canada, Indigenous youth eye impacts in the North

Elizabeth Rusch 23 Oct 2026

World Snow Leopard Day: Community action and new science foster coexistence with humans

Naina Rao 23 Oct 2026

Googly-eyed buoys and kites help keep seabirds out of fishing nets, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 23 Oct 2026

Mass sloth deaths prompt US bill calling for import ban

Bobby Bascomb 23 Oct 2026

Scorched sanctuaries: The race to save Borneo’s orangutans from fires

Garry Lotulung 22 Oct 2026

Another mining-linked pollution incident raises alarm over Zambia’s Kafue River

Chisapi Kumbutso 22 Oct 2026
Sánchez Mercado on a field trip. His research evaluates the dynamics of morichales, as well as their potential as carbon sinks that can be easily replicated in the tropical belt. Image courtesy of Miguel Angel Sánchez-Mercado.

Water, carbon & the ‘tree of life’: Interview with Venezuela’s guardian of morichales

Diego Ávila Muskus 22 Oct 2026

Facing pushback on data centers, tech giants are promising hosts more money and fewer secrets

Associated Press 22 Oct 2026

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon and Cerrado savanna at lowest rate ever recorded

Shanna Hanbury 22 Oct 2026

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