Writing Published work 2026 Migratory bird species increasingly at risk, report finds, but there is still hope – Mongabay To save Europe’s raptors, conservationists say, look to West Africa – Mongabay West Africa’s plan to save its vultures struggles to take flight – Mongabay World must look to the past to prepare for likely unprecedented El Niño – Mongabay Increasingly rare: Jaguarundi moves up a notch on the endangered species list – Mongabay Meme-face Pallas’s cat traverses a complex conservation landscape – Mongabay Belief-based use increasing threat to yellow-billed kite, an important African scavenger – Mongabay Australia’s seagrass meadows under pressure as climate change turns up the heat – Mongabay Telling one guiña from another: It’s all about the angle – Mongabay On the brink of extinction, the Javan green magpie gets a conservation lifeline – Mongabay Hope for vultures in Nigeria as some belief-based users adopt plant alternatives – Mongabay Rodent-killing baits threaten small wild cats and other wildlife – Mongabay Demand for vultures in West Africa threatens Central African populations – Mongabay Genetic study reveals extinction risk for unique mangrove-adapted pampas cat – Mongabay The European wildcat hovers between recovery and local extinction – Mongabay Deforestation and warming could push Amazon to tipping point by 2040s: Study – Mongabay Inside the fight to save the little-known Galápagos petrel – Mongabay Offshore wind’s clean energy potential remains largely untapped, say experts – Mongabay A Forgotten 1949 Recording Turns Out To Be The Oldest-Known Recording of a Whale Song – Discover Magazine Linking habitats strengthens wildlife microbiomes, helps fight disease: Study – Mongabay Loss of prey could drive Atlantic Forest jaguars to extinction – Mongabay Poop pills and gut microbes: Wildlife microbiome studies aid conservation – Mongabay Songbird trade threatens lesser-known ‘master birds’ with secondary extinctions: Study – Mongabay Rush to put AI data centers in space poses poorly understood dangers – Mongabay Big cats get the press, but small wildcats are being poached and trafficked in silence – Mongabay How Reliable Is the Science on Microplastics in the Human Body? Some Experts Urge Caution – Discover Magazine Africa’s vulture safe zones face tough test across vast landscapes – Mongabay Insects are moving pharmaceutical pollutants from rivers to land; risks unknown – Mongabay Wildlife attacks and strange animal behavior — fake images spark conservation concerns – Mongabay IUCN launches group to conserve at-risk microbes vital to life on Earth – Mongabay 2025 Year-end ‘good news’ as flat-headed cats reappear in Thailand after 29-year absence – Mongabay For fossil fuel-dependent islands, ocean thermal energy offers a lifeline – Mongabay Asian golden cat range expands, but declines continue amid rising threats – Mongabay IUCN downgrades guiña threat status, prompting conservation warning – Mongabay Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health – Mongabay How Big Was the Tyrannosaurus rex? They May Have Been Larger Than Fossil Evidence Suggests – Discover Magazine Commercial space race comes with multiple planetary health risks – Mongabay In rare triumph, camera traps snap endangered wildcats in Pakistan – Mongabay Fossilized Dinosaur Teeth Are a Time Capsule to Our Atmospheric Past – Discover Magazine Open burning of plastic is an escalating public health threat, say experts – Mongabay Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions – Mongabay Forest corridors protect Colombia’s critically endangered brown spider monkey – Mongabay As ocean acidification ramps up, experts call for speedy ocean protection – Mongabay Marine artificial upwelling, problematic climate solution slow to advance – Mongabay Cape vulture conservation offers hope, but challenges remain – Mongabay As renewable diesel surges, sustainability claims are deeply questioned – Mongabay Solutions needed as climate change & land use fuel global crop pest menace – Mongabay Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change – Mongabay Conserving vultures in Southern Africa may provide substantial economic gain: Report – Mongabay Betting on future forest carbon storage endangers Paris Agreement targets – Mongabay Ground-level ozone pollution poses growing threat to planetary health – Mongabay Africa’s last tropical glaciers are melting away along with local livelihoods – Mongabay With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health – Mongabay Aiding natural pollination can boost cacao yields & climate resilience – Mongabay Vicuña poop creates biodiversity hotspots as glaciers retreat rapidly – Mongabay Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats – Mongabay Lures that attract seed-dispersing bats could aid tropical reforestation – Mongabay 2024 Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys were found in only two places on Earth. Now it’s one – Mongabay Electrochemical removal of ocean CO2 offers potential — and concerns – Mongabay Next-gen geothermal offers circular promise, but needs care and caution – Mongabay Direct air capture climate solution faces harsh criticism, steep challenges – Mongabay Brazil natural landscape degradation drives toxic metal buildup in bats – Mongabay Land use change impacting seven planetary boundaries, solutions urgent, say scientists – Mongabay Vulture poisonings in the Serengeti alarm conservationists – Mongabay Atmospheric methane removal: A promising but challenging climate solution – Mongabay Calls for caution as enhanced rock weathering shows carbon capture promise – Mongabay As 25 Earth vital signs worsen, scientists warn of ‘irreversible climate disaster’ – Mongabay As tidal power rides a wave of clean energy optimism, pitfalls persist – Mongabay Inaugural Planetary Health Check finds ocean acidification on the brink – Mongabay Ancient Egyptians had poor posture at work, too – Discover Magazine Aluminum and steel vital to energy transition, but need circular solutions – Mongabay Aluminum and steel take environment and health toll, even as demand grows – Mongabay Are sharks ingesting bales of cocaine and other pollutants? – Discover Magazine Some of the earliest known jokes were written down 4,000 years ago – Discover Magazine Hooded vultures in Ghana and South Africa on the brink, study says – Mongabay Cloud brightening over oceans may stave off climate change, but with risk – Mongabay Most complete dinosaur fossil found in UK was 125 million years old – Discover Magazine Geoengineering gains momentum, but governance is lacking, critics say – Mongabay Seagrass and Plastic Are Not Friends – Hakai Magazine Action plan to save West African vultures targets threat from belief-based use – Mongabay Mysterious, at risk, understudied flat-headed cat lacks conservation focus – Mongabay Saving Asia’s fishing cat means protecting threatened wetland habitat – Mongabay Circular solutions vital to curb enviro harm from cement and concrete – Mongabay Salt Played a Pivotal Role in Ancient Human History – Discover Magazine A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain – Mongabay Ancient People Wore Jewelry for its Protective Power, and Other Mystical Purposes – Discover Magazine Climate change brews trouble for tea industry, but circular solutions await – Mongabay Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows – Mongabay Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather – Mongabay One-Eyed-Looking Mammoth Fossils May Have Inspired Origins of the Cyclops – Mongabay Endangered vulture species nesting in Ghana is rare good news about raptors – Mongabay Lessons from Finland’s attempt to transition to a circular economy – Mongabay Study: Tiny tortoise may play large role in South Africa’s Karoo landscape – Mongabay 2023 Did a dust plume kill the dinosaurs? – Discover Magazine Incentivizing conservation shows success against wildlife hunting in Cameroon – Mongabay Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say – Mongabay Beyond Climate: Fossil fuels rapidly eroding Earth’s ‘safe operating space’ – Mongabay Beyond Climate: Oil, gas and coal are destabilizing all 9 planetary boundaries – Mongabay Crime analysis sheds light on tiger poaching in Malaysia – Mongabay Study: Wild meat trade from Africa into Belgium a health and conservation risk – Mongabay Off Mexico’s coast, world’s largest limpet is slipping into extinction – Mongabay Rolling car tires into the global circular economy – Mongabay Study: Tall trees and shade boost bat diversity on Africa’s cocoa farms – Mongabay EVs offer climate hope, but total auto supply chain revamp is vital (Part two) – Mongabay Internal combustion vs. EVs: Learning from the past to boost sustainability (Part one) – Mongabay Study reveals turtles’ millennia-old food affair with North African seagrass – Mongabay A dinosaur lovers dream: Travel back to the times of Deinocheirus – Discover Magazine The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot? – Mongabay Small wildcats pose big challenges, but coexistence is very much possible – Mongabay Aviation’s climate conundrum: More than sustainable fuels needed (Part two) – Mongabay Sustainable aviation fuels: Potential lagging behind reality (Part one) – Mongabay Do We Know If Dinosaurs Were Smart Enough to Hunt In Packs? – Discover Magazine Drones improve counts of rare Cao-vit gibbon, identify conservation priorities – Mongabay ‘Tree islands’ boost diversity in oil palm plantations, study finds – Mongabay Protected areas store a year’s worth of CO₂ emissions, study reveals – Mongabay Study: Snares claim another local extinction as Cambodia loses its leopards – Mongabay Unearthing the most well-preserved dinosaur embryos – Discover Magazine Crud-to-crude: The global potential of biofuels made from human waste – Mongabay Snares don’t discriminate: A problem for wild cats, both big and small – Mongabay Study shows Javan leopard habitat shrinking, but real picture may be worse – Mongabay What are Neglected Tropical Diseases? – Discover Magazine Small cats face big threats: Reasons to save these elusive endangered species – Mongabay Conservationists unite to tackle Latin America’s dog threat to wild cats – Mongabay What We Know About the Hard-Headed Pachycephalosaurus – Discover Magazine Jatropha: The biofuel that bombed seeks a path to redemption – Mongabay National corridor project aims to save Chile’s endangered huemul deer– Mongabay Vulture carrion potential boon and threat for endangered Iberian lynx: Studies– Mongabay Orca Killer Whale Moms Pay a Steep Price to Feed Their Adult Sons– Discover Magazine In Calakmul, water troughs offer possible solution to human-wildlife conflict – Mongabay A liquid biofuels primer: Carbon-cutting hopes vs. real-world impacts – Mongabay Brazil tackles illegal miners, but finds their mercury legacy harder to erase – Mongabay Peeling back the sediment layers – Hakai Magazine Deforestation could pose disease threat to Amazon’s white-lipped peccaries – Mongabay What the builders of Stonehenge liked to eat – Discover Magazine How effective is Alcoholics Anonymous? – Discover Magazine Restore linked habitat to protect tropical amphibians from disease: Study – Mongabay Forest loss may push tree-dependent marbled cats into threatened category – Mongabay Plastic works its way up the food chain to hit fishing cats, study shows – Mongabay EU demand for frogs’ legs raises risks of local extinctions, experts warn – Mongabay Archaeological Treasures Hidden Beneath the Colosseum – Discover Magazine Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities – Mongabay Debunking 3 common climate change myths – Discover Magazine 2022 Tobacco: Vaping and smoking drive environmental harm from farm to fingertip – Mongabay Global study reveals widespread salt marsh decline – Mongabay What to do when the recovery of one species puts another at risk? – Hakai Magazine To save threatened Amazon primates in Brazil, turn them into the main attraction – Mongabay How much trash is in our oceans? – Discover Magazine Plastic impacts a grossly underestimated ‘one-two punch’ for seabirds: Study – Mongabay Severe malaria cases in rescued orangutans raises concerns for wild populations – Mongabay Wild cats threatened by ‘underrecognized’ risk of spillover disease – Mongabay Community study sheds light on wild cat killings in Brazil’s central Amazon – Mongabay Patagonian Shipwreck Could Be 150-Year-Old Rhode Island Whaler – Discover Magazine Did This Giant Sea Lizard Rule the Oceans 66 Million Years Ago? – Discover Magazine These 7 New Dinosaur Species Were Unearthed In 2022 – Discover Magazine Orcas Have Social Trends Like Us, And This One Could Get Dangerous For Boats – Discover Magazine Female Monkeys Live Longer If They Have a Social Life – Discover Magazine In Vietnam, farmers show a willingness to work with the elephant in the room – Mongabay 6 Animals With Unusual Evolutionary Traits – Discover Magazine These 4 Animals Depend on Leadership to Survive – Discover Magazine Zero-deforestation commitments ‘fundamentally limited’ in tackling deforestation, study argues – Mongabay These 5 Modern Inventions Actually Have Ancient Roots – Discover Magazine Education can change local perception of bats, help conserve species, study says – Mongabay Larger, 65-foot-long Megalodon Might Have Fed on Whales – Discover Magazine 7 World-Famous Explorers and Their Scientific Discoveries – Discover Magazine How does climate change affect biodiversity? – Discover Magazine From South America to Southeast Asia, Tour Boats Threaten Wildlife – Discover Magazine Consumed: Cocaine – Mongabay Defining the Line Between Missing and Extinct Species – Discover Magazine Delectable but destructive: Tracing chocolate’s environmental life cycle – Mongabay Study assesses wildlife exposure to rat poison on oil palm plantations – Mongabay Bats in Germany are riddled with pesticides and toxic pollutants – New Scientist Facial recognition – Now for seals – Hakai Magazine To win island-wide conservation, Indonesia’s Talaud bear cuscus needs to win hearts – Mongabay Legal and illegal cannabis: A cause for growing environmental concern – Mongabay Rehabilitation research returns orphaned cheetahs to the wild – Mongabay Study warns of risk from feline viruses to wild cats on the palm oil frontier – Mongabay ‘It’s just a bird’: Online platforms selling lesser-known Indonesian species – Mongabay The surprising scale of the seagrass sanitation service – Hakai Magazine Saving the near-extinct estuarine pipefish means protecting estuary health – Mongabay Brazil Tree Cam Captures Possible Self-Medicating Behavior in Mammals – Discover Magazine Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns – Mongabay Is it time to change tack in the ‘war on rats’? – Discover Magazine All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine – Mongabay Seagrass joins other marine life in accumulating sunscreen compounds – Mongabay Online trade in rare silvery pigeon is cause for concern, researchers say – Mongabay Getting away with it in ancient Rome – Fakes, frauds, and forgeries – Ancient History Magazine (Print only) If managed properly, whale and dolphin carcasses can benefit coastal ecosystems – Discover Magazine Interspecies fight club offers hope for Noble crayfish- Discover Magazine Caffeine: Emerging contaminant of global rivers and coastal waters – Mongabay A brief history of the ancient cat – Ancient History Magazine (Print only) The small cats nobody knows: Wild felines face intensifying planetary risks – Mongabay Invasive plants are threatening Rome’s ancient monuments – Discover Magazine How to deal with the global human sewage problem? | Mongabay Explains – Mongabay Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem – Mongabay The thick of it: Delving into the neglected global impacts of human waste – Mongabay Older Rome’s forgotten triumphator – Publius Ventidius – Ancient History Magazine (Print only) Beards and back again – The growth of facial hair in Ancient Rome – Ancient History Magazine (Print only) Power meets familial politics: Divorce in Ancient Rome – Ancient History Magazine (Print only) Trumping Colombia’s peace: U.S. drug war threatens fragile accord, forests – Mongabay A tale of two policies: climate change, Trump, and the U.S. military – Mongabay IUCN, UN, global NGOs, likely to see major budget cuts under Trump – Mongabay Indonesians plant trees to nurse seagrass back to health in Wakatobi – Mongabay Unfair trade: US beef has a climate problem – Mongabay Island-hopping toxic toad threatens iconic Komodo Dragon – Mongabay All that glitters is covered in sewage: Gold & silver found in Swiss sewage – The Culture Trip A clouded future: Asia’s enigmatic clouded leopard threatened by palm oil – Mongabay Saving the Serranía de San Lucas, a vital link in the ‘jaguar corridor’ – Mongabay ‘Invasive snake’ is really a new species and should be protected – New Scientist Put down your pitchforks, Switzerland’s hellhound lookalike is just an ordinary beast – Earth Touch News The plan to reintroduce a big cat that might never have existed – New Scientist Great apes and greater challenges: Trafficking in Cameroon – Mongabay The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered – Mongabay Out of sight, out of mind: Asia’s elusive Fishing Cat in trouble – Mongabay Losing all the glaciers in Switzerland is not that far away – The Local CH The “Crypt-keeper wasp” – BioWeb A toxic threat to the jaguars of the Pantanal – Earth Touch News New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride – New Scientist Yaqui catfish faces extinction in the US by 2018 – Earth Touch News Study gauges use of tea as buffer crop to curb mountain gorilla raids – Mongabay Bolivia’s domestic parrot trade supplied by birds seen as “crop pests” – Mongabay The Maned wolf: saving South America’s unfortunately-named canid – Mongabay Industry wields too much influence over U.S. pesticide regulation, says study – Mongabay Galapagos “gold rush” feeds global hunger for shark fins, sea cucumbers – Mongabay Oil roads to ecological ruin: Ecuador’s bushmeat and wildlife trade – Mongabay Tracking the tiny: Harmonic direction finders aid study of small amphibians – Mongabay Saving the Barbary macaque: An interview with Dr. Sian Waters – Mongabay Feline unseen: The African Golden Cat – Mongabay 13 ‘keystone’ corporations hold sway over sustainability of global fisheries – Mongabay Antibiotics revolution? iChip promises resistance-free antibiotics – Mongabay Moratoria beat certification to reduce deforestation for soy, palm oil, cattle – Mongabay Scientists find surprising climate change refuge for reef-building corals: beneath mangroves – Mongabay New study finds the brilliant-thighed poison frog can learn its way home – Mongabay Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Like Loading...
