news.mongabay.comadded August 2026
Mongabay Globalby Abhaya Raj Joshi15d ago
- In September 2006, a helicopter crash killed 24 people, including then forest minister and senior officials from Nepal’s government and WWF — a day after they handed over a conservation area to...
Mongabay Globalby Alexandra Popescu15d ago
- In Peru’s high Andes, water security is under threat as glaciers retreat and changing weather patterns threaten natural reservoirs.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta15d ago
A new atlas of biodiversity of the Galápagos Islands highlights the unique evolutionary and ecological diversity of life in the famed archipelago that helped Charles Darwin develop the theory of...
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb15d ago
The Arctic is dotted with millions of lakes that sit on persistently frozen soil called permafrost. These lakes are crucial for the region’s wildlife and local communities.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta15d ago
Botanists in Thailand have identified a new-to-science species of “fairy lantern” — plants that live almost entirely buried under leaf litter, emerging aboveground only occasionally to flower.
Mongabay Globalby Hans Nicholas Jong15d ago
- Fires are spreading across Bornean orangutan habitat in West Kalimantan, including Gunung Palung National Park and the Mendawak Biodiversity Corridor.
Mongabay Globalby Sharon Guynup15d ago
- Australian authorities disrupted an alleged wildlife trafficking ring in Sydney, seizing 36 reptiles and about AU$300,000 (more than $215,000) in cash and gold bullion.
Mongabay Globalby Mikedigirolamo16d ago
This week on the Newscast, we’re joined by Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, the founder of the Home Planet Fund, an independent, Indigenous-led nonprofit that provides funding for local and Indigenous...
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb16d ago
Cigarette butts account for roughly 12% of the litter found in rivers, lakes and beaches surveyed for a recent global review.
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu16d ago
- The U.S. state of California has returned 55 hectares (136 acres) of Northern California coastline, including Blues Beach and the village site of K’etim, to three Coastal Yuki tribes.
Mongabay Globalby Isabel Esterman16d ago
- A recent study documented 98 northern pygmy slow lorises living in the wild in Guangxi, China, roughly doubling the country’s known population of the endangered species.
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb16d ago
The Brazilian government has created four new sustainable development reserves in the Amazon as part of an effort to mitigate environmental damage from the controversial plan to fully pave the...
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb16d ago
In honor of World Rhino Day, on Sept. 22, here’s a snapshot of Mongabay’s reporting from the past year on the actions being taken to save rhinos from extinction: In 1983, the last wild northern...
Mongabay Globalby Alexandra Popescu16d ago
- Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum has presented a draft fiscal budget for 2027, outlining the national government’s plans for the coming year for everything from tax rates and health care to...
Mongabay Globalby Dilrukshi Handunnetti16d ago
- For internationally acclaimed photographer Federico Borella, documenting Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict goes beyond the gory story often depicted globally and instead offers an opportunity...
Mongabay Globalby Glenn Scherer16d ago
- A vast multi-nation mining project, named Vicuña, is being developed in the Andes to help satisfy the world’s rocketing demand for copper, largely stemming from society’s demand for renewables...
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao16d ago
Former United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres has been named the recipient of the inaugural Jane Goodall Earth Medal, which honors those who “unite science, courage and responsibility.”...
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao16d ago
A worsening convergence of drought driven by climate change, epidemic disease, and state neglect is creating a severe health emergency for the Indigenous Matsés people in the Peruvian Amazon.
Mongabay Globalby Isabel Esterman16d ago
- A new study in Bali found that coral reefs continue to decline at one of the island’s major tourism hubs, despite multiple efforts to rehabilitate them.
Mongabay Globalby Erik Hoffner17d ago
- The recent disaster that sent a wall of water and debris roaring down rivers of the Tibetan Plateau serves as a warning for future hydropower development on Nepal’s rivers, especially the...
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