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Small-scale farmers across Southeast Asia are struggling to prepare for the European Union’s sweeping new deforestation regulation, which could potentially shut them out of lucrative European markets despite their significant contributions to regional agriculture. The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), now…
Comedian Toussaint Douglass has chosen an unlikely hill to defend: the humble pigeon. In a passionate plea for these widely maligned urban birds, Douglass argues that pigeons deserve recognition as “working-class heroes” rather than the scorn they typically receive from…
Nepal’s Indigenous peoples are mounting fierce legal and grassroots resistance against infrastructure development projects that threaten their ancestral territories and traditional ways of life. Throughout 2024 and into 2025, communities across the Himalayan nation have filed court cases and organized…
While many media outlets chase clicks and pageviews, environmental news organization Mongabay measures success differently—by the tangible impact its journalism creates on the ground. As 2025 comes to a close, the organization’s investigative reporting has sparked government action, empowered marginalized…
Scientists predict enhanced Northern Lights visibility throughout 2026 as solar activity peaks, while Malaysia approves $70 million robotic submarine search for missing Flight MH370. Plus: Nepal's highway project threatens indigenous communities and Brigitte Bardot's wildlife advocacy legacy.
In a remarkable conservation success story, researchers in Australia have brought Campbell’s keeled glass-snail back from the brink of extinction through an innovative breeding and reintroduction program. The tiny species, officially still listed as extinct on the IUCN Red List,…
While Sri Lanka mourns the loss of 650 people killed by Cyclone Ditwah’s devastating floods and landslides, with another 200 still missing, a largely overlooked environmental tragedy has unfolded across the island nation. Thousands of wild animals have also perished…
Conservation efforts typically respond to visible environmental damage—deforestation, declining fish populations, and shrinking protected areas. But what about the less obvious changes that haven’t yet reached crisis levels? A groundbreaking study led by William J. Sutherland of Cambridge University, published…
In the late 1970s, southern Burkina Faso faced a conservation crisis. Elephants had nearly vanished, wildlife populations were crashing, and subsistence hunting had turned into widespread eradication. When conservationist Clark Lungren proposed an unorthodox solution—allowing local communities to retain controlled…
The Trump administration's aggressive dismantling of environmental protections creates unprecedented climate setbacks, as London Eye architect Julia Barfield proposes a massive 14-mile tidal lagoon to power Britain's AI energy demands. Plus conservation victories in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and Burkina Faso.
