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For Honduran coffee growers, EUDR compliance means changing old habits

Sandra Weiss 29 May 2026
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

The Amazon’s path from crisis to durability

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2026

‘World’s deepest banner protest’ launched at the bottom of the sea

Liz Kimbrough 28 May 2026
A glass octopus, a nearly transparent species whose only visible features are its optic nerve, eyeballs and digestive tract.

As economic case for deep-sea mining weakens, industry should halt urgency to begin operation (commentary)

Andy Whitmore 28 May 2026
Environmental police operation against illegal deforestation in Espigão do Oeste, Rondônia in the Brazilian Amazon. Image courtesy of Fernando Augusto/Ibama.

Brazil Congress passes bill to bar use of Amazon deforestation satellite tool

Shanna Hanbury 28 May 2026
A cornfield flooded with salts in the eastern United States. Crops didn’t survive in the low-elevation sections of the field, which abuts a tidal wetland. Image courtesy of Jarrod Miller/Delmarva Saltwater Intrusion.

Risk of saltwater intrusion into coastal groundwater spans the globe: Study

Edward Carver 28 May 2026
Bumblebees tracked during the experiment. Image courtesy of Kimmo Kaakinen.

Household mosquito repellents may stop bumblebees from finding their way home

Shanna Hanbury 28 May 2026

Has Ecuador started fracking? New oil project causes confusion and concern

Maxwell Radwin 28 May 2026

How much suffering do invasive species cause? Researchers are measuring that

Daniel Shailer 28 May 2026

A Nigerian teen is turning agricultural waste into biodegradable sanitary pads

Aimable Twahirwa 28 May 2026
The common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) is one of 63 species that can be recognized by TropiCam-AI.

Most wildlife AI focuses on the ground. This model looks up in the trees

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 May 2026

New species of ghost pipefish named after Sesame Street character found in Australia

Naina Rao 28 May 2026

European Commission linked leather to deforestation, then ignored it

Elisângela Mendonça, Emmanuelle Picaud 28 May 2026
Forest cleared for oil palm plantations in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Loopholes undermine palm oil industry’s antideforestation pledges

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 May 2026
The remnants of Upper Guinean Tropical Rainforest within Sierra Leone are home to a multitude of species, many of them threatened, such as the white-necked rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A ‘symphony’ of wildlife suggests carbon financing is working in Sierra Leone

Claudia Geib 27 May 2026
Deep-sea starfish in American Samoa

US prepares to auction leases for seabed mining blocks in federal waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 May 2026

Brazil to invest $75 million in highway through Amazon and unveils environmental protection plan

Associated Press 27 May 2026

Nepal’s infrastructure risks wildlife habitats beyond protected areas, study warns

Deepak Adhikari 27 May 2026
The nonprofit ASD Monde is providing handwashing kits to schools in Nyiragongo territory, North Kivu province, in the eastern DRC. Image courtesy of ASD Monde.

Ebola outbreak draws attention to longstanding virus spillover risks in western Uganda

Sharon Muzaki, Malavika Vyawahare 27 May 2026
A platypus swimming

Reintroduced platypus population ‘tracking well’ in Australia’s oldest national park

Megan Strauss 27 May 2026
Banner image of Myanmar teak courtesy of EIA.

Luxury yacht maker Sunseeker pleads guilty to violating a US environmental law

Naina Rao 27 May 2026
Yap conducts canopy bridge education. Image by Wong Hui Yi/Langur Project Penang.

Building bridges for human-wildlife coexistence: Interview with Yap Jo Leen

Philip Jacobson, Isabelle Leong 27 May 2026
Black-flanked Rock Wallaby (Petrogale lateralis) in Cape Range National Park, Western Australia, Australia. The Australian Government has classed this wallaby as endangered under the EPBC Act. Image by Dsyzdek (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Australia is failing to meet its environment targets, argues ecologist

Mike DiGirolamo 26 May 2026

Tracking Lucero: Scientists follow a rare Eastern Pacific leatherback sea turtle

Bobby Bascomb 26 May 2026

Peru’s Quellaveco mine tied to water scarcity, contamination, investigation finds

Maxwell Radwin 26 May 2026

Kenyan agency responds to protests rejecting proposed nuclear power plant near Lake Victoria

Lynet Otieno 26 May 2026

Parts of Europe swelter in record May heat as deaths at amateur sports events spur warnings

Associated Press 26 May 2026
Illegal sand and gold mining

Indonesia seizes mercury shipment bound for illegal mines in the Philippines

Anggita Raissa 26 May 2026
Still image from the film A Salmon Nation, courtesy of Patagonia Films.

Iceland must protect wild salmon and reject new aquaculture legislation (commentary)

Yvon Chouinard 26 May 2026
The composition of Queensland’s rainforests would change without cassowaries dispersing seeds, and some plants may become greatly restricted or even threatened with extinction. Image by the Gondwana Rainforest Trust.

Amid efforts to save Australia’s southern cassowaries, their numbers remain unknown

Cooper Williams 26 May 2026
A rhododendron tree with the snow-capped Himalayan mountains in the background.

Nepal’s rhododendron tourism sparks unchecked liquor trade concerns

Mukesh Pokhrel 26 May 2026
A leopard cat in India’s West Bengal state. India’s population of leopard cats is not contiguous, with individuals in the western part of the country isolated from the rest of the leopard cat’s range. Image by Soumyajit Nandy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Asia’s overlooked leopard cat

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 May 2026

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