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Impacts of US government shutdown on the EPA

Associated Press 3 Oct 2025
A giant dust storm approaches the metro area of Phoenix, Arizona, Aug. 25, 2025.

Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health

Sean Mowbray 3 Oct 2025
Deforestation for gold mining in Suriname.

In the Guyana Shield, the fight against deforestation is not ambitious enough

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Oct 2025
A herd of wildebeests.

Scientists rethink Serengeti migration numbers with satellite, AI tools

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Oct 2025
A young Taita falcon in South Africa. Image courtesy of Anthony van Zyl.

Mozambique reserve found to host rare Taita falcon’s largest refuge

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2025
The Philippine eagle is being pushed to the brink of extinction due to deforestation and unsustainable hunting.

Study warns up to a quarter of Philippine vertebrates risk extinction

Keith Anthony Fabro 2 Oct 2025
Cultivated meat taco produced by Ivy Farm. Photo courtesy of Ivy Farm

Protein for a crowded planet: An interview with the Good Food Institute’s Nigel Sizer

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Oct 2025
A fisher mends his net at Yettinahalla.

Turning a stream into a river: Inside India’s Yettinaholé diversion project

Shradha Triveni 2 Oct 2025
A Bali starling sings with its beak wide open

Indigenous-led protections spark Bali starling’s recovery in the wild

Heather Physioc 2 Oct 2025

Swiss glaciers shrank 3% this year, the fourth-biggest retreat on record

Associated Press 2 Oct 2025
A participant plants local green plants in a park as part of Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative, which aims to plant 7.5 billion trees by the end of the year, at Jifara Ber site, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday, July 31, 2025.

There’s far less land available for reforestation than we think, study finds

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2025
Miners pan for gold at a gold mine in El Callao, Bolivar state, Venezuela, Friday, April 28, 2023. Miners pan for hours in ponds where standing water fosters mosquitos that transmit diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever. Photo by: AP Photo/Matias Delacroix.

Amid Venezuela’s illegal gold heist are armed groups, gangs & elites, report says

Aimee Gabay 2 Oct 2025
The Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops) is native to Europe, Asia and Africa. Image courtesy of Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).

Biodiversity is our most sophisticated information network and must be protected (commentary)

Razan Al Mubarak 2 Oct 2025
Courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute

How to carry Jane Goodall’s light forward

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Oct 2025
Rainbow over Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

Just as Raja Ampat fetches UNESCO Biosphere Reserve title, nickel mining looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Oct 2025
Prochlorococcus marinus, a globally significant marine cyanobacterium. Image by Luke Thompson from Chisholm Lab and Nikki Watson from Whitehead, MIT, 2007, via Flickr (Public domain).

New conservation panel to focus on microorganisms crucial for human and planet health

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Oct 2025
Jane with Uruhara pant-hooting, 1996. Photo by Michael Neugebauer

Jane Goodall (1934–2025): primatologist, conservationist, and messenger of hope

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2025
After a chinchorro fishing haul, some fish considered worthless are left behind and end up rotting on the sand.

Illegal fishing threatens unique marine ecosystem in Peru

Ramiro Escobar 1 Oct 2025
Jane Goodall in 2024. Courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute.

Jane Goodall, primatologist who taught the world to hope, has died at 91

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2025
Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) in a tree.

Urban appetite for lemur meat piles pressure on iconic primates

Mino Rakotovao 1 Oct 2025
Tromsø Arctic Reindeer and Sami Experience in Krokelvdalen, Norway. Image by Nicolas Lafargue via Unsplash.

Climate change puts pressure on reindeer populations, both wild & domestic herds

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Oct 2025
When art turns into a sustainable treasure

When art turns into a sustainable treasure

Julia Lima, Fellipe Abreu, Sibélia Zanon 1 Oct 2025
A young Rostain takes a break along a river in French Guiana, where he started his archaeological career in the late 1980s.

Indigenous myths reveal Amazon’s past truths: Interview with Stéphen Rostain

Peter Speetjens 1 Oct 2025
Camera trap images of the jaguar before and after the crossing. Image courtesy of Silveira et al., 2025 (CC BY 4.0).

Jaguar in Brazil swims 2.3 km in longest recorded distance for the species

Shanna Hanbury 1 Oct 2025
DJ Edwin Carrasco, known in the artistic world as Tayta Bird, recording sounds of a rainforest.

DJs inspired by nature

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2025
The Santa Marta Five. Image courtesy of Lisbeth Ayala.

Antimining activists cleared of ‘farce’ murder charges in El Salvador

Shanna Hanbury 1 Oct 2025
The Mae Moh power plant in northern Thailand's Lampang province is a significant contributor to air pollution and has sickened residents across Mae Moh district. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Anguish for residents as Thailand’s most polluting coal plant gets new lease of life

Gerald Flynn 1 Oct 2025
Tiger on a rock.

Amid challenges, Nepal plans its latest tiger & rhino counts

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Oct 2025
Datu Cornelio Melayao points to a patch of greenery tribal members reforested decades ago.

Philippine tribes revive reforestation to defy coal mining expansion

Bong S. Sarmiento 30 Sep 2025
Ghanaian Minister Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah (left) and the former EU Ambassador to Ghana Irchad Razaaly (right) at a Ghana-EU FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement event in August 2025. Image courtesy of the Ghana Forestry Commission.

Ghana begins sustainable wood exports to EU under new license

Shanna Hanbury 30 Sep 2025

The world’s oceans face triple planetary crisis: Report

Bobby Bascomb 30 Sep 2025
A trash picker looks for recyclable plastics at a waste dump in Bali. Image by Jonas Gratzer for Mongabay.

Can courts combat plastic pollution? Lessons from Indonesia (commentary)

Syahriza Alkohir Anggoro 30 Sep 2025

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