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Banner image: Corals and fish within the Bitaug MPA. Image © Dean Apistar/WCS Philippines.

Community efforts yield new marine protected area in the Philippines

Kristine Sabillo 20 Aug 2025

Indigenous groups demand action from South American leaders at Amazon summit

Associated Press 19 Aug 2025
Sea fans in a coral reef in San Pedro, Belize. Image by Fabrice Dudenhofer / Ocean Image Bank.

Belize project seeks out heat-resilient corals to protect its reefs

Marco Lopez 19 Aug 2025
Venezuela Oil License

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

Maxwell Radwin 19 Aug 2025
A whale shark near Ningaloo Reef off western Australia.

Whale shark hotspot discovered along the Great Barrier Reef

Edward Carver 19 Aug 2025
A sperm whale.

Ocean-based carbon storage ramps up, bringing investment and concern

Sean Mowbray 19 Aug 2025

How Indonesian companies dodge fines for forest & peatland fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Aug 2025
An Indigenous village in the Mount Mantalingahan area

Philippines’ new forest policy wins business backing but alarms green groups

Keith Anthony Fabro 19 Aug 2025
Banner image of a reindeer calf in 2009 at a Gabna Sámi village in Sweden, by Silje Bergum Kinsten/norden.org via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.5 DK).

Deadly Nordic heat wave made 10 times worse by climate change: Study

Kristine Sabillo 19 Aug 2025
Satellite images comparing Dharali in June 2024 and on Aug. 7, 2025, after the flash flood. Image courtesy of National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad.

Increased construction in the Himalayas risks more deadly flash floods

Mongabay.com 18 Aug 2025
2017's Jones Fire in Oregon, U.S.

Old forests, new fires, and a scientific standoff over active management

John Cannon 18 Aug 2025
View of central Kampala.

From counting trees to enhancing climate resiliency, Kampala focuses on its forests

Victoria Schneider 15 Aug 2025
Cattle in Switzerland.

Will we still eat beef in 50 years?

John Cannon 15 Aug 2025

As climate change burdens grow, community mental health alarm bells ring

Petro Kotzé 14 Aug 2025
A barberfish (Johnrandallia nigrirostris) swimming through Pocillopora corals in Panama's Coiba National Park.

Microbiomes may be corals’ secret weapon against climate change: Study

Marlowe Starling 14 Aug 2025

Seed-dispersing animals are in decline, impacting forests and the climate: Study

Kristine Sabillo 14 Aug 2025
A crew of firefighters fights the Vees Fire near Ten Sleep, Wyoming, in July 2025.

Fixing forests or fueling fires? Scientists split over active management

John Cannon 13 Aug 2025
Yellowfin tuna, one of the seven major commercial tuna species, attempt to outswim a seine net in the Seychelles. Fishing is the second largest industry on this small Pacific Island, and like many other Pacific Islands, it faces major revenue losses as tuna shift their migration patterns into the high seas due to climate change.

How will fisheries change in a hotter world? Experts share

Claudia Geib 13 Aug 2025
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

People on nature’s frontlines aren’t waiting for miracles, says author Alan Weisman

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2025
Indigenous participants at the Free Land Camp on April 10, where they discuss rights, territorial protection, and their role in COP30. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

Indigenous alliance unveils Brazil’s first Native-led emissions strategy

Aimee Gabay 9 Aug 2025

Sri Lanka plans restoring revoked protection for an important mangrove patch in the island’s North

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Aug 2025
Supertree grove is part of the Gardens by the Bay (GBTB) urban park in Singapore, covering 105 hectares (260 acres). Image by Tien Tran (tientran0019) via Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).

How urban greening is helping Singapore bounce back from widespread forest loss

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2025
A Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) ship.

World’s first industry-wide climate mandate could be launched with shipping vote

Edward Carver 7 Aug 2025
Banner image of motorists riding through a flooded road caused by heavy monsoon rain in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 10, 2025. Image by AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary.

Deadly monsoon rains in Pakistan made worse by climate change: Study

Kristine Sabillo 7 Aug 2025
Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).

Anchovy-rich diet linked to vitamin deficiency and deaths among salmon, study

Bobby Bascomb 6 Aug 2025
Kicker Rock in the Galápagos, Ecuador. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In ‘Hope Dies Last,’ author Alan Weisman chronicles the people fighting for the planet

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Aug 2025
A humpback whale fluke.

Krill fishery in Antarctica shut down after record catch triggers unprecedented early closure

Associated Press 5 Aug 2025

Power poop saves the day (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 5 Aug 2025
Banner image of smoggy air in Dakar, Senegal, by Issiaga via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Study links long-term exposure to air pollution with increased dementia risk

Kristine Sabillo 5 Aug 2025
Park guide Luana Wanessa Assunção points at the remarkable Painel do Pilão, which could be the first-ever solar calendar of the Americas. Image by Peter Speetjens.

Soy crops squeeze Amazon park with 11,000-year-old rock paintings in Brazil

Peter Speetjens 4 Aug 2025
The critically endangered lemur leaf frog (Agalychnis lemur), found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Requiem for the nearly lost

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Aug 2025
AnIndian pitta (Pitta brachyura)

Can rainwater-fed ponds revive Bangladesh’s hilly streams?

Sadiqur Rahman 1 Aug 2025

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