Environment

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Environment

ENVIRONMENT 23/07/2026 21:28

In Michoacán, Mexico, drying soil threatens water supplies and avocados, says study

MEXICO CITY — In the heart of Mexico’s southwestern state of Michoacán, Juan Madrigal spends his free time organizing to protect the city of…

ENVIRONMENT 23/07/2026 19:28

Sea salt in Lombok Island, Indonesia is contaminated with microplastics: study

Sea salt sold in markets across Lombok Island, Indonesia, is contaminated with microplastics, according to a recent study. Microplastics are…

ENVIRONMENT 23/07/2026 17:54

Wildfire spreads near popular French tourist town as thousands are evacuated

PARIS (AP) — About 20,000 people were evacuated from towns and vacation resorts along the French Atlantic coast Thursday as the latest in a …

ENVIRONMENT 23/07/2026 16:59

How saline drinking water raises preeclampsia risks in coastal Bangladesh (commentary)

Hypertensive or high blood pressure disorders are among the leading causes of maternal deaths in low-income countries. A pregnancy complicat…

ENVIRONMENT 23/07/2026 15:48

Ten years of Mongabay Latam

  When Mongabay Latam began publishing in 2016, the decision felt like a logical next step. Mongabay Indonesia, launched four years earlier,…

ENVIRONMENT 23/07/2026 13:17

For Brazil’s Xokleng people, saving a sacred tree means saving their culture

IBIRAMA-LA KLÃNÕ INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — Zág, pronounced “zã,” is the Xokleng word for the Brazilian pine. This tree species, Araucar…

ENVIRONMENT 23/07/2026 05:13

New bird species identified on remote Indonesian island

A songbird species previously thought to occur across two Indonesian islands has turned out to be two distinct species, according to a recen…

ENVIRONMENT 22/07/2026 21:59

Third year of wildfires threaten isolated Indigenous group in Bolivia

Wildfires have burned thousands of hectares of forest and savanna in the Chacobo-Pacahuara Indigenous territory in the Beni department of no…

ENVIRONMENT 22/07/2026 18:38

As Australia expands seismic testing, experts warn of profound effects on sealife

It was spring, 20 years ago now, but he remembers it clearly. On the deck of the Geco Resolution, wind tearing spray from the waves, Robert …

ENVIRONMENT 22/07/2026 18:29

Why a New England city is building tunnels to protect an imperiled salamander

NEW HAMPSHIRE, U.S. — It’s a mild March night in Keene, New Hampshire, and the salamander brigade is out in full force. A constellation of f…

ENVIRONMENT 22/07/2026 16:31

Smithsonian ornithologist John Rappole reconsidered why birds migrate

For much of the year, migratory songbirds were treated as temporary visitors to the tropics. They arrived from the north, spent the winter, …

ENVIRONMENT 22/07/2026 14:12

An Indigenous take on Colombia’s new gov’t: Interview with a Putumayo Indigenous leader

In just a few weeks, Colombia will have a new leader. Right-wing candidate Abelardo de la Espriella won Colombia’s runoff election on June 1…

ENVIRONMENT 22/07/2026 12:07

How to stitch a massive wildlife corridor through the Rocky Mountains

BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada — On a sunny Thursday in May, Kent Kebe had to scrape yet another bighorn sheep carcass off Highway 93/95 running t…

ENVIRONMENT 22/07/2026 07:20

Vietnam’s coffee boom fueled by decades of deforestation, report finds

Decades of unchecked deforestation for coffee production has devastated Vietnam’s Central Highland forests, according to a new investigation…

ENVIRONMENT 22/07/2026 07:11

In southern India, beekeeping helps Indigenous women earn more

A beekeeping initiative is enabling women in India’s Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot that runs parallel to India’s west coast, to stre…

ENVIRONMENT 22/07/2026 02:00

A Tunisian phosphate plant that sickens children so US, Europe can get fertilizer

Dalila grew up in the Tunisian coastal city of Gabès and is accustomed to the heavy, acrid smell from the state-owned phosphate processing p…

ENVIRONMENT 21/07/2026 23:06

Oil has harmed the nature and people of the Niger Delta; human rights may save it

On this week’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, I speak with travel writer Noo Saro-Wiwa. She has documented the violence and natural destr…

ENVIRONMENT 21/07/2026 20:06

Health fears linger in a Brazilian neighborhood built over oil waste

SÃO SEBASTIÃO, Brazil — In front of the house where she has lived for decades, Cosma da Silva points to nearby homes in her Itatinga neighbo…

ENVIRONMENT 21/07/2026 16:39

Amazon tree rings reveal more intense drought and rainfall in the rainforest

Tree rings from the Amazon show that the world’s largest rainforest has developed wetter wet seasons and drier dry seasons over the past fou…

ENVIRONMENT 21/07/2026 14:54

‘We couldn’t breathe’: DRC villagers revive protest against Perenco over pollution

“I had diarrhea and dizziness. Food no longer tasted the same. … I wasn’t the only one who noticed it — it was the same for everyone in the …

ENVIRONMENT 21/07/2026 13:11

Extreme heat is eroding health, productivity and incomes of Dhaka’s informal workers

DHAKA — On June 28, as the afternoon sun beat down on Bangladesh capital Dhaka’s sprawling Tejgaon neighborhood, Samiha Begum gathered her t…

ENVIRONMENT 21/07/2026 13:02

Report reveals Cambodia’s appetite for tigers, rhinos and other endangered wildlife

Tiger bone wines in exquisite bottles. Tiger cubs sold alive as pets or served as a culinary delicacy alongside pangolin and cobra meat at e…

ENVIRONMENT 21/07/2026 11:39

Pangolin DNA study links local wild meat markets to global trafficking networks

Pangolin scales and other body parts trafficked internationally appear to come from the same areas that supply the animals for local wild me…

ENVIRONMENT 21/07/2026 11:10

What happened to the vessels Panama busted in 2025 for fishing in its flagship MPA?

On Jan. 22, 2025, Panama’s government announced it had caught 16 vessels fishing illegally inside the country’s flagship marine protected ar…