Skiing & ice sports seasons are starting later & ending sooner from #climatechange "Beyond being bad for our winter sports industry, it’s dark news for all of us, and I mean that literally" @climatechris.bsky.social writes in the Globe Loss of snow & ice darkens the planet, bringing more heating:

As spring migration ramps up, some tall buildings turn their lights off at night to save #birds from deadly impacts with glass, but not enough At a time of declining songbird numbers, we need better policy than voluntary measures to protect all those winged beauties from this fate:

Pope Leo XIV told reporters Saturday some of his recent remarks have been interpreted as shots at Trump, when they are actually broader calls for peace.

It seems like a Prime Minister who continues to get his corruption trial delayed for years because his government is engaged in wars has a personal incentive to keep wars going as long as possible.

[COMMENTARY] Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz expose Africa’s reliance on imported fertilizer. Susan Chomba argues this crisis should catalyze local biofertilizer production to secure the continent’s food future. Read the full article! 👇️ *The views expressed are those of the author.

The Catholic bishops have just made crystal clear the reason that the pope is right and JD Vance is wrong: A just war can't be a war of choice, which this one clearly is. This is a crucial theological, political, and moral argument, and the clarity here is needed and powerful

After 100 years of copper mining, parts of Tasmania’s King River are "biologically dead." As the demand for minerals for EVs and AI surges, these rivers serve as a stark warning: the cost of mining lasts centuries. @slovgren.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

Even top pop mag Time is on this story now After discussing the likelihood of a Kessler event of cataclysmic collisions wiping out low-Earth orbiting capacity for many years, writer quotes #SpaceX “A million [Starlink] satellites is a lot. We will do what's necessary to be safe." Will it, really?

Two marsupials thought to be extinct for millennia have been rediscovered in Indonesian Papua. Researchers documented the pygmy long-fingered possum and the "Tous" glider. The find was made possible through deep collaboration with Indigenous elders. @john-cannon.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

🏆 We won 'best video' last night in Bogota from the World Association of News Publishers 🏆 A collab of our @mongabay.com video team & AP @apnews.com, it tells the story of how women protect Mexico City’s ancient floating farms & boost local food 💪 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqpD...

All those red lines in the graph? #China 's 2025 wind farm installs by manufacturer #Egypt is a big beneficiary of this growth, as one of the countries most vulnerable to natural gas price spikes from the #Iran war, @timmcdonnell.bsky.social reports at @semafor.com, www.semafor.com/article/04/1...

It will be extremely funny if Vance manages to get himself excommunicated before his book on becoming a Catholic releases.

The only thing inevitable in the deep sea is discovery. Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining. news.mongabay.com/2026/04/deep...

Remarkable tropical katydid, newly described 🧪 If you loved the lichen version shared below, how about hot pink? 🩷 @mongabay.com reports this species changes to a pastel pink & then to green, mimicking how many tree leaves develop in Panama, more details here: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Remarkable tropical katydid, newly described 🧪 If you loved the lichen version shared below, how about hot pink? 🩷 @mongabay.com reports this species changes to a pastel pink & then to green, mimicking how many tree leaves develop in Panama, more details here: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Tasty on toast? In the 1800s, robins were hunted, sold in markets & eaten as a popular food across the US Viewed as a delicacy, they were frequently prepared in meat pies or served on toast 🍞 This continued until their protection via the Migratory #Birds Treaty Act which lawmakers just weakened 🐦‍⬛

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Ramp-ing up into spring 🌱 Established a patch of these native beauties in our forest and they have multiplied and spread Ramp leaves make great scrambled eggs and pesto, taste like a cross btw garlic & onions, nom nom nom

Hello, journalists hitback against AI has started... And with good reason. Anyone sensible who wants the facts will choose a human writer over unreliable AI slop everytime... www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prop...

Brazilian version of This American Life did an hourlong show about our shark meat investigation, featuring my colleague @bykarlamendes.bsky.social

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Brazil’s Amazon hydropower plants are becoming vulnerable to climate change, and Belo Monte may be the clearest warning sign yet. Built after years of debate, the mega-dam is facing a problem its planners could not solve with engineering: less water. @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/03/fall...

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

My chat w/ top writer Scott Weidensaul about his hopeful “Return of the Oystercatcher: Saving #Birds to Save the Planet,” new via @wwnorton.com "People are turning the dial in the right direction for birds. And for us." #Birding fans know his iconic prior books well, but his message here is wide:

My chat w/ top writer Scott Weidensaul about his hopeful “Return of the Oystercatcher: Saving #Birds to Save the Planet,” new via @wwnorton.com "People are turning the dial in the right direction for birds. And for us." #Birding fans know his iconic prior books well, but his message here is wide:

Interesting! The #ArtemisII team will use discontinued #Nikon DSLR cameras for its most important mission today “The camera doing the most important photographic work aboard is a piece of hardware that, on Earth, you can no longer buy.”

"Oil companies ExxonMobil, Empire Petroleum and their subsidiaries engaged in accounting fraud that could cost the state nearly $200 million, a lawsuit filed in New Mexico District Court alleges." Great article that really lays out the way this fraud has been allowed for so long.

Interesting! The #ArtemisII team will use discontinued #Nikon DSLR cameras for its most important mission today “The camera doing the most important photographic work aboard is a piece of hardware that, on Earth, you can no longer buy.”

For decades, the dhole - a social wild dog once widespread across Asia - was a ghost in the forests of Vietnam. The species had declined, and categorized as possibly locally extinct. That changed in ‘23 when a camera trap captured a photograph of a mature adult dhole. My latest for @mongabay.com:

Annual #mangrove forest #photography awards now open for entries:

Another example of refusing to collect data whose results you don’t like: Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

April 3, now recognized as Jane Goodall Day, is a day of action to carry forward the habits and responsibilities she encouraged, rather than simply commemorate her A long-time @mongabay.com advisory board member, we got to know this legend & bask in her glow, and carry her message of hope forward:

Somehow these articles never mention the colossal damage China's government is inflicting on these South China Sea reefs www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Exciting news in Canadian media: widely beloved editor Alison Uncles is leading a new nonprofit outlet focused on solutions journalism! Be Giant went live today:

Scientists have discovered that Congo Basin lakes release carbon far older than previously thought. This "ancient" release challenges our understanding of peatland carbon dynamics and highlights the urgent need for more research into these ecosystems. @john-cannon.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

A good listen via a great podcast about outdoor adventure & our place in the natural world Click play for an interesting conversation about #conservation w/ @mongabay.com CEO @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social for the Adventure Podcast's 'far reaches' series Listen here: shows.acast.com/the-adventur...

22nd Anniversary. I never imagined such a thing.

"People really don’t like data centers. Especially when powered by fossil fuels." Bi-partisan opposition to something like I've never seen before. It's the people vs the oligarchs. Refreshing. We will need a lot more of this.

Saw this total songwriting/guitar legend again recently, James McMurtry 🎸 Closed the show his usual way, but w/ a twist: “Tip your server, be nice to the doorman & be careful getting home If you don't, at least be nice to the nice officer *But if it's an ICE officer blow that whistle real loud!*

“Art is the only reason for civilization to exist.” - Cixin Liu, To Hold Up the Sky @liu-cixin.bsky.social #art

[Nonprofit news impact] After a @mongabay.com investigation exposed a loophole in regs on hunting of Maltese falcons & other #birds, authorities reacted Egypt’s Ministry of Environment banned hunting in two key regions, the New Valley & Lake Nasser, key areas for migratory & resident birds 🦅

Last #trailcam capture of winter, two weeks ago These porcupines live under the house size boulder in the background, that a glacier left here during the ice age Not as exciting as the *romp of otters* I just shared here but they are also important people of the woods…

A recent issue of Natural History magazine has a feature on tropical katydids Incredible creatures! Hard to decide which were the most amazing, but these lichen katydids are *next level*

A study of 38,000 people across 75 countries found that feeling connected to nature consistently predicts higher well-being, hope and resilience – regardless of wealth or national culture. theconversation.com/a-connection...

Here's an interesting shift in South Asia agriculture with #agroecology angles vs swidden ag: saving steep soils by trellising crops like cucumber & bitter gourd The aerial pictures are super cool, with slopes covered in lush green vine blankets:

Mongabay x Bellingcat collab, No. 1 news.mongabay.com/2026/03/face... @mongabay.com @bellingcat.com

These beauties are expanding in my corner of the Northeast Sandhill cranes had traditionally summered here near the VT/MA border but the population faltered during the hunting era This group has doubled in recent years, attracting #birding enthusiasts as the #birds enjoy sheep pastures & wetlands:

Sources say activist & Goldman Prize winner Diane Wilson has been arrested for attempting to deliver demands to a Dow Chemicals facility in Seadrift, TX She's been on a 25 day hunger strike outside the facility, protesting its move to remove rules on how much plastic it can discharge into waterways

"Her career did not produce a single defining theory or moment. Instead, it accumulated into a long record of observation and intervention. The continuity of her presence in the field allowed her to trace changes that were otherwise difficult to capture." news.mongabay.com/2026/03/biru...

Forest Service just published a new definition of "ski area" because it's getting harder for ski resorts due to "significant fluctuations in seasonal snow conditions" and "inconsistent" snow i.e. problems due to #climatechange, but they can't actually say that, anymore...