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Banner image of the recently born onager foal in Saudi Arabia, courtesy of Prince Mohammed bin Salman Royal Reserve.

Asiatic wild asses return to Saudi Arabia after 100 years

Kristine Sabillo 17 Dec 2024
A loggerhead turtle hatchling on Al-Mansouri beach.

Amid haze of war, Lebanese activists helped turtle hatchlings journey to sea

Amélie David 25 Sep 2024

Six months after first Houthi ship sinking, attacks slick Red Sea with oil

Elizabeth Fitt 2 Sep 2024
Extreme heat in Mecca has led to deaths of over 1,300 pilgrims.

More than 1,300 Muslim pilgrims die in Mecca under 50C heat

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2024
An Iranian cheetah.

Final cheetah conservationists freed in Iran, but the big cat’s outlook remains grim

Kayleigh Long 13 May 2024
Trainee Ossam Bassam fishing at sea for the first time.

Lebanese youths take up rods and reels to learn sustainable fishing

Amélie David 27 Mar 2024
The olive harvest festival at the luxury Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar Resort in 2023 highlights the growing interest in local foods and agri-tourism opportunities.

Oman’s mountain oases offer ancient farming lessons for a warming future

Ruth Kamnitzer 18 Mar 2024
Doha Asous, known as Um Musa, collects her olives on her land located close to the settlement of Yizhar, Burin, West Bank, October 15, 2022. Asous family owns about 84 dunums but most of it is very difficut or impossible to access due to the proximity of the Israeli settlements. Surrounded by several Israeli settlements, Burin has been a frequent target of attacks by Israeli settlers. Image by Anne Paq.

Palestinian olive farmers hold tight to their roots amid surge in settler attacks

Marta Vidal 30 Nov 2023
Muslim communities represent a large percentage of the global population and are greatly impacted by climate change, and therefore deserve seats at important climate change negotiations like COP28. Image courtesy of Memona Hossain.

Muslim community must have a seat for global climate change discourse (commentary)

Memona Hossain 3 Nov 2023
Aerial view of the FSO Safer with the Yemen and Ndeavor moored alongside, preparing to transfer the oil. Image courtesy of Boskalis.

How the United Nations, kids and corporations saved the Red Sea from an oil disaster

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Oct 2023
A rescued falcon, likely a peregrine

Falcon trafficking soars in Middle East, fueled by conflict and poverty

Lyse Mauvais 10 Aug 2023
Serge in a greenhouse.

One seed at a time: Lebanese project promotes agroecology for farmer autonomy

Áine Donnellan 29 Jun 2023
A Micrelaps vaillanti

Scientists make ‘rare’ new identification of snake family: Micrelapidae

Mactilda Mbenywe 21 Apr 2023
Elias Saker inspects wheat. Image by Marta Vidal for Mongabay.

Lebanese research preserves heat-adapted seeds to feed a warming world

Marta Vidal 20 Sep 2022
Smoke from a factory in Turkey

Turkey’s authoritarian development ignores planetary boundaries

Clément Girardot 21 Jul 2022
Omar al-Sharif, Motoharu Nochi, and a team of volunteers after a “growth monitoring” activity at the Marka baby forest in April 2022.

In Jordan, the Middle East’s first Miyawaki-style ‘baby’ forests take root

Lyse Mauvais 1 Jun 2022
Harvesting oranges near Sicily, Italy.

Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change

John Cannon 28 Apr 2022
Farid Tarabay, the new forest guide, under the Lamartine Cedar, one of the oldest in the SBR. Image by Elizabeth Fitt for Mongabay.

From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story

Elizabeth Fitt 23 Mar 2022

Jordan scrambles to save rare Red Sea corals that can withstand climate change

Marta Vidal 14 Feb 2022

Wild cat trade: Why the cheetah is not safe just yet (commentary)

Patricia Tricorache and Tomas Maule 12 Jan 2022

Climate change agricultural impacts to heighten inequality: Study

Claire Asher 13 Dec 2021

Planned copper mine raises fears for biodiversity hotspot in Jordan

Marta Vidal 9 Nov 2021

Saving sea turtles in the ‘Anthropause’: Successes and challenges on the beach

Elizabeth Fitt 15 Sep 2021
Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

Conservation needs more women, says Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

Rhett A. Butler 30 Aug 2021

Israel-U.A.E. pipeline deal ‘invitation to disaster’ for globally important corals

Elizabeth Fitt 16 Jul 2021

Talks break down over crumbling Yemeni tanker threatening massive oil spill

Elizabeth Fitt 2 Jun 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa 70% of the population lives from agriculture — and specifically rainfall agriculture.

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

Saul Elbein 10 May 2021

World Bank’s IFC pumped $1.8b into factory farming operations since 2010

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Jul 2020

Dangerous levels of heat and humidity rising in frequency, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2020
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

UK military beef supplier buys from sanctioned Brazilian farmers, investigation shows

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2020

Iran upholds heavy sentences for conservationists convicted of spying

Kayleigh Long 21 Feb 2020

Iran sentences eight conservationists convicted of spying

Kayleigh Long 26 Nov 2019

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