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Conservation philanthropy often favors urgency: campaigns, deadlines, the language of crisis. A smaller group of donors has worked differently, treating environmental protection as a problem of capacity and continuity. They funded people more than projects, institutions more than moments. Their…
Environmental advocates notched key wins at local and state levels this year despite Trump rollbacks As 2025 draws to a close, environmental advocates across the US find themselves weighing a year marked by both setbacks and successes. Despite major environmental…
The challenges and strains have been almost too much to take. But in 2025, words of depth and courage have been an antidote to numbness I once saw a young glassblower in Istanbul, still new to his craft, shatter a…
MEXICO CITY — Throughout 2025, Latin America remained a battleground between efforts to conserve some of the world’s most valuable ecosystems and mounting pressure from organized crime and legal extractive industries pushing into new frontiers. Home to about 40% of…
The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed Death and taxes are supposed to be the things we…
The Valley Fire torched Lucky Peak in the fall of 2024. Bird researchers there are channeling their grief into study of how avians respond to climate-driven blazes. By William von Herff BOISE, Idaho—Ping.
The Trump administration is moving to narrow which wetlands qualify for federal protection. But New Jersey’s stricter legal framework shows how states can fight back. By Rambo Talabong When the Trump administration moved to curtail wetland protections in November, environmental…
On Feb. 17, 2016, the gears ground into life at the massive Belo Monte hydroelectric plant, on the “Large Curve” of the Xingu River, or Volta Grande do Xingu, in the Brazilian Amazon. By April that year, the 11.2-gigawatt plant…
Amid accelerating biodiversity loss and shrinking ecological spaces, it’s easy to lose hope. But every year, there are stories of optimism: of species that are making a comeback after being nearly wiped out. Here are five such species whose recovery Mongabay…
From moules marinière to scallop, bacon and garlic butter rolls, here’s how to cast your culinary net wider and embrace more sustainable species For a nation surrounded by water, Britain’s seafood tastes are remarkably parochial – we mostly eat cod,…