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Environmentalists empowering women and citizen science win 2024 Heinz Awards

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2024

First-ever global atlas shines light on large mammal migrations

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2024

Famous ‘spy’ beluga whale found dead in Norway

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2024

Patents can serve as early-warning system for wildlife trade trends

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2024

Luxury hunting firm linked to decades of poaching in Tanzania, whistleblowers say

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2024

Indonesian cabinet reshuffle promotes champions of destructive projects

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2024

Recently hatched baby skate offers hope for endangered Tasman species

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2024
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Streak of falling deforestation snapped at 15 months in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 9 Aug 2024

Japanese ship hunts massive fin whale, country’s first in 50 years

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2024

Investigation uncovers damages of cobalt mining in the DRC villages

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2024
Commercial coal shipping in Vietnam.

Vietnam sentences yet another energy expert over renewables research

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2024

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested in Greenland

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2024

Activists in Cameroon repeatedly questioned by authorities following Mongabay story

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2024
A little bronze-cuckoo (Chrysococcyx minutillus). Image by Graham Winterflood via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

‘Masters of deception’ cuckoos evolving into new species

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2024

Electric vehicles are not so green

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2024

The nine processes that keep Earth stable

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2024
Illegal logging routes sprawl out of the Stung Meteuk dam construction site, leading into Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodian hydropower dam may be linked to illegal logging

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2024
A jaguar

An Indigenous-led biodiversity credit scheme in the Colombian Amazon

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2024
Image of houses inundated during Bangladesh 2020 floods.

Over 2 million people cut off by extreme rain in Bangladesh

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2024
Extreme heat in Mecca has led to deaths of over 1,300 pilgrims.

More than 1,300 Muslim pilgrims die in Mecca under 50C heat

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2024

Death and displacement as fatal storms hit Sri Lanka

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2024
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Despite drought, Amazon deforestation alerts hit five-year low

Mongabay.com 10 May 2024

How environmental crimes are covered up in the Amazon?

Mongabay.com 22 Apr 2024
Deforestation in the Amazon in 2022. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Deforestation alerts in the Brazilian Amazon fall to a 5-year low

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2024
Planet satellite image of the Macucuaú River, Roraima in February 2023 (left) and February 2024 (right). Courtesy of Planet.

Fires surge in the Amazon, but deforestation continues to fall

Mongabay.com 17 Mar 2024
Mongabay's founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler flying a drone in the Amazon rainforest in July 2023.

World Economic Forum features Mongabay’s work

Mongabay.com 24 Dec 2023
Paiche in Bolivia. Courtesy of SERNAP.

Our most read stories of 2023

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2023

Deforestation falls for 8th straight month in the Amazon rainforest, but rises in the cerrado

Mongabay.com 8 Dec 2023
Rainbow over rainforest and plantations in Jambi on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Photo credit Rhett A. Butler

Brazil proposes $250 billion “Tropical Forests Forever” fund for rainforests

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2023

Investigation shows ‘shadow companies’ linked to Indonesia palm oil giant First Resources

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2023
An African elephant calf in kruger National Park, South Africa.

Mongabay discusses the launch of Africa news bureau with director David Akana

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2023
A cheetah in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Mongabay launches Africa news bureau

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2023

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