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Rare dugong calf sighting in Alor spotlights seagrass & marine mammal conservation

Basten Gokkon 21 Oct 2025
Starling Murmuration. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Trust-based philanthropy: Lessons from MacKenzie Scott and Laurene Powell Jobs (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Oct 2025

Negro River study finds genetic damage in fish after oil spill

Tiago da Mota e Silva 20 Oct 2025

South African sharks threatened by fisheries, weak enforcement

Victoria Schneider 20 Oct 2025
A manta ray in the Indian Ocean.

Mining the deep-sea could further threaten endangered sharks and rays

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Oct 2025
Farmers gather at Bhimruli guava market for selling their produces.

Guava yields in South Asia shrink due to unpredictable heat & rainfall

Sadiqur Rahman 20 Oct 2025
A slender-billed curlew illustration by Elizabeth Gould & Edward Lear via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

The slender-billed curlew, a migratory waterbird, is officially extinct: IUCN

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Oct 2025
Willie Shubert in Madagascar with lemurs at a rehabilitation center. Note: visitors are not permitted to touch lemurs, but lemurs do as they please. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Measuring success in trees, not clicks

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Oct 2025
An Eskom power station in South Africa's Mpumalanga province. Image courtesy of Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp (CCBY-ND4.0).

South Africa court halts natural gas power plant project, cites climate commitments

Victoria Schneider 20 Oct 2025

Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching

Maxwell Radwin 20 Oct 2025
Researcher measures fire behavior during the 2023 dry season in the Tapajós National Forest (PA). Image courtesy of Marizilda Cruppe/Rede Amazônia Sustentável.

Heat surges put preserved Amazon areas at high risk, study says

Giovana Girardi/Agência Pública 20 Oct 2025
Flowing from Myanmar into Thailand, the Kok River carries toxic runoff from rare earth mines into Chiang Mai province. Image supplied by Brian Eyler.

More Thai rivers and downstream communities at risk from Myanmar’s rare earth mines

Mongabay 20 Oct 2025
The new-to-science Marmosa chachapoya species. Photo courtesy of Silvia Pavan.

Scientists describe new-to-science mouse opossum from Peruvian Andes

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2025

Nations delay vote on shipping decarbonization rules after fierce US resistance

Edward Carver 17 Oct 2025

Banking alliance aimed at limiting fossil fuel investments collapses

Bobby Bascomb 17 Oct 2025

US blocks a global fee on shipping emissions as international meeting ends without new regulations

Associated Press 17 Oct 2025

A closer look at Peru’s Amazon reveals new mining trends, deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 17 Oct 2025
A deforested area in Barrerias, in Bahia state.

Deforestation for soy continues in Brazilian Cerrado despite EUDR looming

Constance Malleret 17 Oct 2025
A young female leopard photographed at night in Niokolo Koba National Park, Senegal. Panthera/Senegal DPN

West Africa’s leopards now officially endangered after 50% population crash

Elodie Toto 17 Oct 2025
Community people in Jhumlabang gathered in a community meeting in July. Image courtesy of Jhumlabang Village Foundation (JVF).

In Nepal’s hills, a fight brews over the country’s biggest iron deposit

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 17 Oct 2025
Bambang Hero Saharjo and Basuki Wasis, two environmental experts from IPB University, after the first hearing of their lawsuit against their testimony at the Cibinong District Court,

Indonesia court clears wildfire scientists in case brought by palm oil company

Rendy Tisna 17 Oct 2025
A green turtle. Image by Bernard DUPONT via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Green turtle rebounds, moving from ‘endangered’ to ‘least concern’

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Oct 2025

Nepal seeks World Bank loan to fight air pollution despite hefty taxes to do so

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Oct 2025
Tony James. From the Stabroek News Facebook page.

Chief Kokoi, defender of the Rupununi, died on October 12th

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2025
Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang

Indonesia retiree rewilds world’s largest volcano lake as church demands plantation closures

Sri Wahyuni 17 Oct 2025

New cluster of Tapanuli orangutans discovered in Sumatra peat swamp

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Oct 2025

Vast freshwater reserves found beneath Atlantic seafloor

Bobby Bascomb 16 Oct 2025

As wolves roam California, livestock losses remain low, yet ranchers’ fears grow

Spoorthy Raman 16 Oct 2025

A week after floods, swathes of central Mexico reel from devastation

Associated Press 16 Oct 2025

Indonesia falls short in bid to increase its share of southern bluefin tuna catch

Edward Carver 16 Oct 2025
Illustration by Sara Arredondo – Baudó Agencia Pública.

Indigenous monitoring project helps protect isolated peoples in Colombia’s Amazon

Pilar Puentes 16 Oct 2025

State-NGO collaboration expands protection for Patagonia’s biodiversity hotspot

Mark Hillsdon 16 Oct 2025

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