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Banner image of a humpback whale breaching in Iceland, by Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Study delves into increase in humpback whale sightings in UK and Ireland

Kristine Sabillo 4 Apr 2025

UK delays to environment law have led to massive deforestation, report says

Maxwell Radwin 31 Mar 2025
Why are the British flooding parts of their coast? Once farmland protected by flood defenses, Steart Marshes in southwest England now thrives as a restored salt marsh. As the defences weakened, the land became increasingly vulnerable to flooding. Instead of rebuilding defenses, conservationists, the government and local communities made a bold choice to let the sea reclaim the landscape. Just over 10 years ago the sea wall was breached, allowing the sea to take over the land, transforming the area into a vital wetland habitat. Salt marshes, which have declined by 85% in the U.K. since the 19th century, play a crucial role in coastal ecosystems. They provide shelter for wetland wildlife, act as natural flood defenses by absorbing storm surges, stabilize coastlines against erosion, and store carbon to help combat climate change. Managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Steart Marshes now provides a model for future restoration projects, proving that working with nature can protect communities while rebuilding lost habitats.

Why are the British flooding parts of their coast?

Leo Plunkett, Sandy Watt 19 Mar 2025
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau province.

Political appointments in Indonesian climate program spark outcry over accountability

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Mar 2025
Banner image of a bumblebee in the U.K. by Flappy Pigeon via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

2024 was worst year for British bumblebees: Report

Kristine Sabillo 12 Mar 2025
Banner image of a greater mouse-eared bat, courtesy of Daniel Whitby/BatCRU.

Researchers find two individuals of UK’s ‘loneliest bat’ species

Kristine Sabillo 13 Feb 2025
Juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Chile.

Mass salmon deaths hit Scottish farms as government investigates

Francesco De Augustinis 12 Feb 2025
INQUIRE, a dataset and evaluation tool, gauges how AI models perform when asked to extract extra information from wildlife photos captured by citizen scientists. The three images (above), showing hermit frogs caught in plastic trash, were clicked by citizen scientists and were used to train the dataset. Images by mferrla (left), anacarohdez (middle) and lexthelearner (right)/iNaturalist.

AI can already identify species in photos. Can it extract even more data?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 5 Feb 2025
Banner image of St. Bernard's Church in Ireland following Storm Éowyn, by Riversting via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Explosive ‘bomb cyclone’ pummels Europe, hitting UK hardest

Kristine Sabillo 28 Jan 2025
Todd Smith dreamt of being an airline pilot since he was five years old. He left the aviation industry in 2020, and is now working to reform it. Image by Helena Dolby. Courtesy of Todd Smith.

Pilot-turned-climate activist Todd Smith finds other ways to fly

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2025

Record seizure highlights scale of wild bird egg theft in UK

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jan 2025
Banner image of a Eurasian Lynx by Böhringer Friedrich via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5).

1 lynx dead, 3 quarantined after suspected illegal release in Scotland

Kristine Sabillo 16 Jan 2025
Banner image of Myanmar teak courtesy of EIA.

Yacht maker Sunseeker fined in landmark Myanmar ‘blood timber’ case

Kristine Sabillo 4 Dec 2024
Banner image of high river waters in Cardiff, Wales, by Sionk via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India, U.K. deal with storms that are ‘symptom of our changing climate’

Kristine Sabillo 28 Nov 2024
Salmon farms in Loch Ainort.

Scottish salmon farms seek growth despite mounting fish deaths and environmental concerns

Francesco De Augustinis 20 Nov 2024
Banner image of deforestation in Malaysia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

WWF gives banks a tool to see if they’re financing environmental crime

Kristine Sabillo 14 Nov 2024
Todd Smith dreamt of being an airline pilot since he was five years old. He left the aviation industry in 2020, and is now working to reform it. Image by Helena Dolby. Courtesy of Todd Smith.

Grounded: A pilot who quit flying to help tackle climate change works to change aviation, for good

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 12 Nov 2024
Waves off Scotland’s coast.

As tidal power rides a wave of clean energy optimism, pitfalls persist

Sean Mowbray 14 Oct 2024
ASH Achuar by Leticia Valverdes Adult, Female, Male, Man, Person, Tribe, Woman Alliance Amazon Headwaters-Achuar by Leticia Valverdes-EarthShot Prize.ASH Achuar by Leticia Valverdes

Earthshot Prize announces 15 finalists solving urgent environmental challenges

Bobby Bascomb 25 Sep 2024

Tree bark removes atmospheric methane, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 16 Aug 2024
A trawler docked in a harbour in Scotland.

Bottom trawling in U.K.’s marine reserves, legally, is apparently a thing

Logan Rance 31 May 2024

‘Right to roam’ movement fights to give the commons back to the public

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 21 May 2024
Cattle ranch next to a recently deforested area in Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia, Brazil. Photo courtesy of Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance).

Traceability is no silver bullet for reducing deforestation (commentary)

Erasmus zu Ermgassen 12 Apr 2024
Russia's vast boreal forest is owned by the state and extensively logged. Image courtesy of Earthsight.

Biden’s new sanctions on Russia should include timber exports (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet, Tara Ganesh 26 Feb 2024
A coffee cup with beans. Photo by Lotus Head/Wikimedia Commons

U.S. and U.K. lawmakers must wake up to the coffee problem (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 21 Dec 2023
A waste processing management facility

Chemical recycling of plastic not so fantastic, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Nov 2023
A puffin with a beakful of sand eels. Dogger Bank has a unique biodiverse ecosystem rich in sand eels that supports North Sea food webs, including seabird populations. Image by Steve Higgins via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

How to ‘flip’ a paper park: Success in the North Sea carries lessons

Edward Carver 11 Jul 2023

What can the U.K. do to fight its dependence on soy?

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jun 2023
Puzzle of a natural history museum diorama. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

What does the decline of natural history museums mean for biodiversity conservation? (commentary)

Rajith Dissanayake 28 Jun 2023
A little owl (Athene noctua).

Air pollution sensors found to store crucial biodiversity data

Abhishyant Kidangoor 23 Jun 2023

Even in recycling, microplastics remain a persistent polluter, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 May 2023
Eurasian lynx mother and cub.

Could biodiversity be a key to better forest carbon storage in Europe?

Mark Hillsdon 13 Apr 2023

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