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An Indus river dolphin (Platanista minor). This species is found in a small area of the Indus River, near the city of Sukkur in the central province of Sindh, Pakistan. Image courtesy of WWF Pakistan.

Indus River dolphins’ survival is our responsibility (commentary)

Sabir Hussain 13 Feb 2024
Workers at a mangrove nursery in Dam, a coastal town in Pakistan's Balochistan province. Image by Ayaz Khan for Mongabay.

Pakistan bucks global trend with 30-year mangrove expansion

Ayaz Khan 5 Feb 2024
Unregulated gold mining on a river in, Nowshera, Pakistan. Image courtesy of Sabir Hussain.

Illegal gold mining threatens Indus River water and biodiversity in Pakistan (commentary)

Sabir Hussain 9 Jan 2024

Blue jeans: An iconic fashion item that’s costing the planet dearly

Jenny Gonzales 17 Nov 2022

COP27: Climate Loss & Damage talks now on agenda, but U.S. resistance feared

Rachel Donald 8 Nov 2022

Return of the king? Pakistan moves to bring gharials from Nepal to its rivers

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Jul 2022

Kaavan, a Sri Lankan elephant living in captivity in a Pakistani zoo to be set free

Malaka Rodrigo 31 Jul 2020
Rose-ringed parakeets seized from the parrot trade in Senegal. Photo courtesy of Davide de Guz/World Parrot Trust

Deadly parrot virus found in native birds from Asia and Africa

Erin I. Garcia de Jesus 5 Dec 2018

Range countries to lead new estimate of global snow leopard population as downgraded threat status remains controversial

Mike Gaworecki 26 Mar 2018

Snow leopards no longer ‘endangered,’ but still in decline and in need of urgent conservation measures

Mike Gaworecki 26 Sep 2017

Is the snow leopard actually 3 distinct subspecies?

Mike Gaworecki 30 May 2017

Understanding the ghost of the mountain

Julia John 10 Aug 2016

7 conservationists win the ‘Green Oscars’

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Apr 2016

Two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have reliable access to fresh water

Mike Gaworecki 15 Feb 2016
Air pollution from outdoor cooking fires like this contribute to millions of global deaths, according to the study. Photo by Engineering for Change / Flickr.

Air pollution causes millions of preventable deaths in East Asia, say scientists

Ramin Skibba 17 Nov 2015

Old fishermen document declining range of the Indus River dolphin

Rex Sanders 3 Dec 2014

India, not China, has the world’s worst urban air pollution

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2014

A sketch of the yeti: saving the Himalayan brown bear

Sandhya Sekar 1 May 2014

Saudi Prince kills two percent of global population of endangered bird

Shreya Dasgupta 1 May 2014

Europe approves vet drug that killed off almost all of Asia’s vultures

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 25 Mar 2014

Pakistan to launch palm oil industry with Malaysia’s help

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2014

Richest countries spent $74 billion on fossil fuel subsidies in 2011, eclipsing climate finance by seven times

Jeremy Hance 13 Nov 2013

An avalanche of decline: snow leopard populations are plummeting

Erica Santana 3 Jan 2013

Conservation success: markhor population climbing

Darren Lloyd 24 Jul 2012

Animal picture of the day: rare image of Asiatic cheetah and cubs

Jeremy Hance 3 Jul 2012

Pictures of the day: activists highlight personal impacts of climate change worldwide

Jeremy Hance 7 May 2012

Small town rises up against deforestation in Pakistan

Jeremy Hance 2 Jan 2012

Chemotherapy tree facing extinction

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2011

Climate change already worsening weird, deadly, and expensive weather

Jeremy Hance 2 Nov 2011

India plans to aid dwindling Ganges River dolphin

Jeremy Hance 8 Mar 2011

Climate change linked to 21,000 deaths in nine months

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2010

Record number of nations hit all time temperature highs

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2010

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