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What’s at stake for the environment in Honduras’ presidential election?

Maxwell Radwin 26 Nov 2025

Deep-diving manta rays use the ocean’s midnight zone to build mental maps, study suggests

Liz Kimbrough 26 Nov 2025
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In Mexico, world’s smallest turtle faces big threats from trafficking, habitat loss

Sandra Weiss 18 Nov 2025

Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence

Liz Kimbrough 13 Nov 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Chile’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 13 Nov 2025
Tree Aid’s efforts as part of the Great Green Wall has resulted in planting nearly 28 million trees in the region so far.

New directory helps donors navigate the complex world of global reforestation

Liz Kimbrough 12 Nov 2025
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How a ‘green gold rush’ in the Amazon led to dubious carbon deals on Indigenous lands

Gloria Pallares 11 Nov 2025

The price of gold: In Venezuela, mining threatens Indigenous Pemón

Catherine Ellis 11 Nov 2025

Nuns, scientists & microchips: An alliance to save Mexico’s achoque salamanders

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2025
A deforested area in Barrerias, in Bahia state.

Deforestation for soy continues in Brazilian Cerrado despite EUDR looming

Constance Malleret 17 Oct 2025

State-NGO collaboration expands protection for Patagonia’s biodiversity hotspot

Mark Hillsdon 16 Oct 2025

Losing Nemo: In the Red Sea, clownfish vanish as anemones bleach

Liz Kimbrough 14 Oct 2025

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study

Mark Hillsdon 14 Oct 2025

In Panama, poison dart frog move brings hope amid amphibians’ fight with fungus

Sam Meadows 8 Oct 2025

Consider the scorpions

Liz Kimbrough 30 Sep 2025
A Baird's tapir.

Animals that spread seeds are critical for climate solutions

Liz Kimbrough 19 Sep 2025

In Guatemala, young Kaqchikel Maya protect their sacred forest with open mapping

Monica Pelliccia 18 Sep 2025
Newly hatched Socorro doves at Chester Zoo. Image courtesy of Chester Zoo.

Newly hatched Socorro dove chicks bring hope to species extinct in the wild

Liz Kimbrough 29 Aug 2025

Data debunks spike in Sri Lanka’s elephant killings, points at media hype

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Aug 2025

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest still losing ‘large amounts’ of mature forest, despite legal protection

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2025

Social media post sparks rediscovery of endemic Sri Lanka rainforest plant

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Aug 2025
restored area aerial image

Local forest governance helps jaguars and forests flourish in Guatemala

Monica Pelliccia 25 Aug 2025
Venezuela Oil License

Venezuela tries an environmental rebrand, but critics aren’t buying it

Maxwell Radwin 19 Aug 2025

As fast-spreading mussel sweeps across Asia, Sri Lanka faces new invasive threat

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Aug 2025
Jaguars still roam the Chaco, but they require large tracts of contiguous forest to survive and reproduce. As forest is destroyed, fewer of these intact landscapes exist. Photo by Eduardo Merille via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Fences, tech and trust help save jaguars in Panama’s Darién

Marlowe Starling 12 Aug 2025

How a gecko species defied extinction on a Galápagos island

Liz Kimbrough 8 Aug 2025

Global maps reveal where mycorrhizal fungi thrive — and where they’re unprotected

Liz Kimbrough 4 Aug 2025
An Indigenous group in a boat in the Ucayali River.

Recently contacted Indigenous in Peru want REDD+ and conservationists to stay away

Kimberley Brown 31 Jul 2025
The Barbados threadsnake, a species lost to science for 20 years, was found during an ecological survey on Barbados by the Barbados Ministry of the Environment and National Beautification and Re:wild in March 2025. Image courtesy of Connor Blades

World’s smallest snake spotted by scientists in Barbados after 20-year absence

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jul 2025

Suspicions surround international legal trade in Galápagos iguanas

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jul 2025
brown spider monkey Colombia

Forest corridors protect Colombia’s critically endangered brown spider monkey

Sean Mowbray 2 Jul 2025
researcher glacier

Communities and ecosystems in Venezuela learn to adapt to life after glaciers

María Fernanda Rodríguez and Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 30 Jun 2025

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