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Zuzana Burivalova. Photo credit: Tobias Corts

Researcher who listens to forests wins 2026 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Oct 2026

Indonesia says it no longer needs forests for rice. What happens to projects underway?

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Oct 2026
Paraguay Chaco, cattle in Karanda'y palm tree savanna (Bajo Chaco), Alto Paraguay Province. Image by Peer V. via Wikimedia Commons.

Paraguay meets UN deadline for improving governance in Chaco Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 9 Oct 2026
Willan Gualinga rapping

In Ecuador, Indigenous youth turn to rap music to defend the Amazon

Isabel Alarcón 9 Oct 2026

Lawmakers in Suriname call for investigation, stricter oversight amid new mining activity

Maxwell Radwin 9 Oct 2026
Mushrooms growing in a forest.

How much nature is left? Interview with Nature Data Lab’s Karl Burkart

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Oct 2026

Ethiopian highlands yield a new species of egg-eating snake

Naina Rao 9 Oct 2026

Deadly wildfires leave Borneo wildlife scrambling for fresh water

Basten Gokkon 9 Oct 2026
The Polish side of the Bialowieża Forest is home to 900 Bison, brought back from the brink of extinction.

Can WarWilding defend Poland’s borders and save Europe’s last ancient forest?

Marta Kasztelan 7 Oct 2026

In Australia’s Wet Tropics, restoration misses the forest for the tree cover

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2026
A Dayak Ngaju tribe man tries to extinguish fire on burning peatland in Mantangai, Central Kalimantan.

The Indonesians facing El Nino’s fires have lessons to teach us (commentary)

Akane Nishimura 6 Oct 2026

‘There could be local extinction’: The fight to protect Indonesia’s orangutans as El Niño fuels fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2026
The Kutuk River in Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska.

Permafrost, wetland, wildfire and freshwater emissions could amplify climate change by up to 30%, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 2 Oct 2026

Women shoulder the burden of expanding wildfires in rural India

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2026
A low tide on hermit crab amid mangrove roots.

Mangroves keep waves at bay. A new study helps scientists predict how

Isabel Gil 1 Oct 2026
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Despite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the Mekong

Gerald Flynn 29 Sep 2026
A Landscape Alliance staffer kneels beside a coppicing stump of a wild loquat tree

Scientists clone Southern Africa’s wild fruit trees as forests disappear

Ryan Truscott 25 Sep 2026
Orange-winged amazon (Amazona amazonica).

Brazil’s tropical forest fund races to raise $2.7 billion before deadline

Carla Ruas 24 Sep 2026
A Ghana cuckooshrike in Côte d’Ivoire.

‘Lost’ bird reappears in West Africa’s forests after more than a decade

John Cannon 24 Sep 2026
Thismia daemona in its natural habitat. Image by Sahut Chantanaorrapint (CC BY 4.0).

A ‘devil-like’ flower from Thailand is new to science — and critically endangered

Naina Rao 23 Sep 2026
An adult orangutan drinking from a peat river in the Tanjung Puting National Park area, Central Kalimantan.

As fires spread in Indonesia, Bornean orangutans run out of forest to flee

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Sep 2026
Illegal miners at work in the Atewa Forest Reserve, Ghana. Image courtesy of A Rocha Ghana.

Illegal mines threaten biodiversity and drinking water in Ghana’s Atewa Forest

Mabel Adorkor Annang 21 Sep 2026
Swami Gowda stands with his herd of sheep and cattle

India’s tiger success brings a new challenge: Living alongside the big cats

Arathi Menon 17 Sep 2026

Indigenous leader Raoni receives palliative care in Brazil after cancer diagnosis

Associated Press 15 Sep 2026
A Shompen man at 35km in Great Nicobar Island in 1997. The Shompen are the original forest dwellers of the island. Images courtesy of Mandish Chandi.

‘They should choose their own destinies’: Manish Chandi on India’s isolated tribes

Latoya Abulu 15 Sep 2026
Cocoa thumbnail

Did you know cocoa pulp tastes like lychee?!

The Rainforester 14 Sep 2026

How burnt coconut helped discover new to science endemic species in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 12 Sep 2026
Gold nugget

The push for a sustainable artisanal mining in the Peruvian Amazon

Felipe Esparza 12 Sep 2026
A pygmy marmoset.

Indigenous knowledge x tech in the search for a tiny Amazon monkey

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Sep 2026
Sugi trees at Nikkō Tōshō-gū.

Japan wants to plant no-pollen trees to solve its hay fever crisis

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2026
Lila Devi uses a traditional sickle to demonstrate how locals craft a jhapa.

Sickles, sarees and smoke: Women on the frontlines of Uttarakhand forest fires

Swati Thapa 8 Sep 2026
Chimpanzees at Mikeno Lodge in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image by Joseph King via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indigenous peoples near Congo parks propose diverse solutions for the future of conservation

Blaise Kasereka Makuta, Latoya Abulu 8 Sep 2026

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