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From prison psychologist to wildlife whisperer: Interview with Susan Eirich

Liz Kimbrough 18 Sep 2024

Fishing in a fog: Ship noise hampers orcas’ hunting success

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Sep 2024

Billions in public funds ‘wasted’ on carbon capture projects, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 13 Sep 2024
Puma. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Highways prevent pumas from reclaiming their eastern U.S. range: Study

Bobby Bascomb 5 Sep 2024
Drone image of the erodible bluff (bottom) being stabilized by tiers of logs pinned to the ground, back-filled with soil, and planted among erosion-slowing rocks to keep the rising waters at bay, for a 'living shorelines' project on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

How coastal communities are adapting to sea level rise with ‘living shorelines’

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Aug 2024
Plastic containers piled up.

Biden-Harris Administration must strengthen position on plastic reduction treaty (commentary)

Tim Grabiel 27 Aug 2024
Silhouette of a plane.

Will we be ready? Geoengineering policy lags far behind pace of climate change

Charles Pekow 26 Aug 2024

Federal court requires stronger protections for endangered Rice’s whale

Bobby Bascomb 23 Aug 2024
Cattle raising in recently destroyed forestland in the municipality Aripuanã, in Mato Grosso state.

Biden Administration mistakenly seeks delay of EU’s new deforestation regulation (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 13 Aug 2024
The ocean

Cloud brightening over oceans may stave off climate change, but with risk

Sean Mowbray 12 Aug 2024

EPA releases a strategy to protect endangered species from insecticides

Bobby Bascomb 1 Aug 2024

Critically endangered North Atlantic right whale spotted near Ireland

Bobby Bascomb 31 Jul 2024

How an international effort is keeping North America free of a deadly amphibian disease

Mike DiGirolamo 30 Jul 2024
Shelly Boyd, a Sinixt woman, co-leads the annual salmon ceremony at Kettle Falls and keeps tradition alive by singing songs that have been sung there for millennia.

A tribe once declared ‘extinct’ helps reintroduce salmon to the Columbia River

Anna Dulisse 30 Jul 2024

Andrea Vidaurre: Leading the clean transportation revolution

Romi Castagnino 30 Jul 2024

As New England forests are razed for solar power, experts urge smarter siting

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Jul 2024

Rare earth elements may be found in coal mines, study finds.

Bobby Bascomb 20 Jul 2024
BC wildfire service crew and partners conduct a prescribed burn in southeastern British Columbia in April 2024.

As the world burns, can we learn to live with wildfire health risks?

Ruth Kamnitzer 2 Jul 2024
Red diamond rattlesnakes, native to southwest California in the U.S. and Baja California in Mexico, are important predators in their ecosystems.

Studying snakes without rattling them? There’s now tech for that

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 Jun 2024
Coral reefs seen along the coast in an aerial photo.

New approach to restore coral reefs on mass scale kicks off in Hawai‘i

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jun 2024
The Florida corridor would preserve myriad landscapes and ecosystems. Image by Ethan Coyle/Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation.

To conserve large landscapes like the Florida Wildlife Corridor, payments for ecosystem services could be key (commentary)

Joshua Daskin and Jen Guyton 19 Jun 2024
He‘eia fishpond.

Restoring Indigenous aquaculture heals both ecosystems and communities in Hawai‘i

Keona Blanks 5 Jun 2024
In 2021, a resident of the small Ecuadorian town of Simiátug found a male frog putatively belonging to the long-lost species Atelopus guanujo.

A tale of two frogs: The tough uphill battle for rediscovered species

Katarina Zimmer 4 Jun 2024

Indigenous Alaskans drive research in a melting arctic

Gabe Allen 4 Jun 2024
Two male specimen of the Devils Hole Pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) photographed in the Devil's Hole, Nevada. Photo courtesy of Olin Feuerbacher/ USFWS (CC BY 2.0)

A tiny desert fish hits a 25 year population high in one of Earth’s harshest environments

Liz Kimbrough 30 May 2024
Tropical forest in Panama. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Cutting forests for solar energy ‘misses the plot’ on climate action (commentary)

Judith D. Schwartz 24 May 2024

Otter-preneurs: Female sea otters lead the way in tool use for survival

Liz Kimbrough 24 May 2024

UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants

Justin Catanoso 6 May 2024

Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2024
Salt tolerant plants are part of a 'living shorelines' project on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

U.S. East Coast adopts ‘living shorelines’ approach to keep rising seas at bay

Erik Hoffner 24 Apr 2024
A sign marks a boundary of the Tohono O'odham Reservation.

Tribes turn to the U.N. as major wind project plans to cut through their lands in the U.S.

Taylar Dawn Stagner 24 Apr 2024
A recovering scleractinian coral reef on Hancock Seamount in the Northwestern Hawaiian Ridge, just inside U.S. waters. Research shows that seafloor ecosystems can undergo some recovery from the effects of bottom fishing if they are protected for 30 to 40 years afterwards. Image courtesy of A. Baco-Taylor and E. B. Roark, National Science Foundation, with Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory pilots T. Kerby and M. Cremer.

No protection from bottom trawling for seamount chain in northern Pacific

Edward Carver 22 Apr 2024

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