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The noise from dredges and large vessels may interfere with the Amazon river turtle’s communication. Image courtesy of Camila Ferrara/WCS Brasil.

Amazon waterway noise threatens unique social life of giant river turtles

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Mar 2026
Ariel toucans in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Image courtesy of Flávia Zagury.

Toucans reintroduced 50 years ago disperse seeds of endangered trees in Brazil

Shanna Hanbury 17 Mar 2026
The endangered Hildegarde’s tomb bat (Taphozous hildegardeae) in flight near its roost in the caves of Mount Suswa, Kenya, during a conservation monitoring survey. Image courtesy of Bat Conservation International.

At dusk in Kenya’s caves, scientists study the hidden lives of bats

Sharon Muzaki 17 Mar 2026
Indigenous protesters and self-proclaimed river defenders demonstrate against Brazilian dams. Image courtesy of Amazon Watch.

A decade after the death of Berta Cáceres, we can no longer tolerate threats to environmental activists (commentary)

Michael Sutton 17 Mar 2026
Reproductive health and oncology nurse Faith Nelima outside the dispensary at Lokichar Girls Secondary School. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Kenya’s renewed oil push faces a tainted legacy

Christopher Clark 17 Mar 2026
A healthy private agar plantation in Sujanagar, Moulvibazar.

Planters stranded amid degraded forests as Bangladesh agarwood scheme falters

Ashraful Haque 17 Mar 2026
Emperor penguins rely heavily on sea ice and are estimated to lose 98% of their colonies by 2100 if sea ice continues to decline.

Accidental discovery reveals new climate threat to emperor penguins

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Mar 2026
Frozen tuna are transferred from the Hung Hwa 202, a Taiwanese longliner, to the Hsiang Hao, a Panama-flagged reefer operating out of Tokyo, Japan, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and crew are investigating distant water fishing fleet practices in the Mid-Atlantic during September and October 2019. Photo credit: © Tommy Trenchard

The hidden cost of fisheries subsidies

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Mar 2026

Cambodia’s Supreme Court denies release of five imprisoned environmental activists

John Cannon 16 Mar 2026
Massaha forest. Image by ZB.

How a community defended its ancestral forest from logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Mar 2026

Climate-resilient housing models slow to gain ground in disaster-prone Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 16 Mar 2026
Duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia. Photo by Charles J. Sharp of Sharp Photography (sharpphotography.co.uk)

Are government subsidies undermining conservation efforts in Australia?

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Mar 2026

Mass pilot whale stranding in Indonesia raises questions about ocean health

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2026
Examining coffee plants in the fields of a CoopeTarrazú grower.

Costa Rica’s head start may mask tougher EUDR road ahead

Claudia Geib 13 Mar 2026
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Forest advocates accuse EU energy firm of Dutch biomass certification fraud

Justin Catanoso 13 Mar 2026

Oil patch appears after IRIS Dena sinking in Sri Lanka; origins still unverified

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 13 Mar 2026

Conservationists are burning out — and some are breaking

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Mar 2026
Seagrass meadows are also important foraging grounds for many marine species, including green turtles (Chelonia mydas). Image courtesy of Michele Roux/Ocean Image Bank.

Why saving seagrass meadows could help save the world’s coastlines

Sean Mowbray 12 Mar 2026
Sea turtles, another migratory species, need safe ocean passageways to move between feeding grounds and nesting beaches.

Outlook for migratory species worsens amid habitat loss & avian flu, report finds

Gloria Dickie 12 Mar 2026
Corals in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Reefs in Florida and elsewhere in the world face many threats including heat waves (which causes coral bleaching), diseases like stony coral tissue loss disease, invasive species, pollution, physical damage and more.

If Florida reefs aren’t protected, storms will increase flooding & costs: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 12 Mar 2026
A bioluminescent jellyfish

Marine biologist Edie Widder chases bioluminescence in new ‘Life Illuminated’ film

Edward Carver 12 Mar 2026
The eye of a jumbo flying squid (Dosidicus gigas), photographed off Calfornia, U.S. Image by joescience1 via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Modest controls put on freewheeling squid fleet at South Pacific fisheries meeting

Francesco De Augustinis 12 Mar 2026
A fisher holds up two stingrays from his catch.

Bangladesh sees rise in ray, shark fishing as traditional seafood species dwindle

Khadijatul Kobra 12 Mar 2026

‘We do not have time’: Interview with MEP Delara Burkhardt on the EUDR’s second delay

Ashoka Mukpo 11 Mar 2026
Visitors interact with belugas at Marineland of Canada, in 2001. At one point, the facility had nearly 60 belugas, the most of any such facility in the world, and ran a successful breeding operation before Canada enacted a law banning cetaceans in captivity in 2019. Image by rdoroshenko via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Belugas facing euthanasia at shuttered Canada theme park may find new homes in US

Spoorthy Raman 11 Mar 2026
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station.

Rush to put AI data centers in space poses poorly understood dangers

Sean Mowbray 11 Mar 2026
A meeting in the Cinta Larga territory in 2017. Image for representation purpose only. Image by Amazônia Real via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Brazil Supreme Court opens path to mining in Indigenous land for first time

Aimee Gabay 11 Mar 2026
Close-up shot of a bale of compressed plastic waste.

Plastic, from home and abroad, spills into Türkiye’s waters

Guia Baggi, Utku Kuran 11 Mar 2026
An Indochinese tiger. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

The Wild League aims to turn sports mascots into conservation champions

Liz Kimbrough 11 Mar 2026

How elephants experience time, and what this tells us about protecting them

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Mar 2026
What used to be a dirt road through the heart of the Ngezi Forest Nature Reserve has recently been widened to facilitate development. Image courtesy of Viola Clausnitzer.

Works on planned luxury resort on Pemba island go ahead despite concerns

Victoria Schneider 10 Mar 2026
IKEA allocates 16,000 hectares of forests for research to further improve responsible forest management. Together with European Forest Institute and Preferred by Nature, IKEA will start a research project that will explore, test and scale improved forestry practices, strengthening climate resilience and minimizing negative impacts on biodiversity.

From forest to flatpack, IKEA faces timber traceability test under EUDR

Annelise Giseburt 10 Mar 2026

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