More than 50 sloths were recently reported dead due to unsuitable conditions at Sloth World, a proposed so-called “slotharium” in Orlando, Florida. Learn more about the Sloth World scandal in this episode of Conservation Entangled, with Izzy Sasada. 👉️ mongabay.cc/Conservation...

I am hosting a media briefing on #hantavirus today at 15:00h CEST. You can join and watch via @who.int and my social media channels across X, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

DawnMedia group of Pakistan has been at forefront to keep highlighting and pushing policymakers towards adopting reforms to counter climate change impacts. Here my analysis contributed to our Breathe Pakistan special report. www.dawn.com/news/1997744...

Once #Saudi Arabia was the main ally and its #oil blockade was used by the US to counter #communist expansion that finally led dismemberment of the erstwhile #Soviet Union, now it has blocked the same #US from using its bases to complete "Operation #Freedom". How tables turn. How sands shift.

A recent study has revealed a significant decline in #snowmelt water flow into 12 important basins in the Hindu #Kush-Hamaliya region. #Indus is one of them which accounts for 39% snowmelt runoff water has seen almost 15% decline, #threatening around 300 million people.

The #sun #spews fire over Karachi. The #temperature has risen to more than 45 #degrees, restricting residents to their homes. There are #congested areas that have suffered massively. #Warming #ocean surfaces has broader #consequences just wait and see.

#Karachi, #Pakistan's biggest city with a population of more than 20 million, has been facing severe #el nino #effect, intense heat #sweeping across the city.

All three nations from #Global South appear to likely miss the #30x30 #target which set countries on a journey to declare 17% inshore and offshore areas #marine protected areas by 2030. #Pakistan, #Bangladesh and #India have made efforts and declared MPAs but they are poorly managed.

#Pakistan falls in the top ten food-insecure #nations, #climate change #impacts being the visible culprits affecting every sector including #agriculture.

Good morning fellows. Do you think #Iran will come close to some deal that will likely end this #Hurmoz impasse?

Here we go! #Iran closes the Strait of Hurmoz after a brief opening.

Miriam Horn’s Homesick for a World Unknown portrays a scientist defined by patience, close observation, and a disciplined effort to understand animals on their own terms, even as such an approach ran against prevailing scientific norms. news.mongabay.com/2026/04/geor...

Blocking an already blocked #Hurmoz!

So far in 2026, 80% of big tech's power procurement has been fossil gas (a bit more if you go by gen) Desperation, ideology and material, deepening relationships between big tech and fossil fuels gets you the exact situation we have been warning about for years.

Pope Leo XIV told reporters Monday morning that he was unafraid of the Trump administration, hours after President Trump lashed out at the pontiff in a social media post on Sunday night. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/3NWXUmM

The four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego on Friday. Their historic 10-day mission was the first to send humans around the moon in more than 50 years. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Five bird species missing for decades were found in 2025 thanks to citizen birders www.optimistdaily.com/2026/04/five...

The emotional price of conservation work news.mongabay.com/2026/03/the-...

The war in the Middle East was actually of Israel, but now the US seems to be the front state entangled in a web of issues. This was a truly miscalculated move.

This will truly flare up the situation. Israel is bent on pushing the world in the fire.

The first Pakistani oil ship has passed #StraitofHormuz after paying in Yaun. Iran tactfully plays the #Hurmoz card, knowing it is a critical trade route. The #US seems troubled after allies refuse to assist in securing #Hormuz. This is how expensive it could be to invade a bordering nation.

#Iran claims #Israeli prime minister has been killed and his videos circulating on social media are #AI generated. This is a huge claim or just tactics to confuse. #Iran-US-Israel conflict.

But there are still hundreds of sites still not 'bombed' by the US and Israel. Period.

One of the issues with any populist leader is an evident scenario still getting blurred by the leader's irrational personal ego.

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AU oil is all but gone. Google says AU has 16 years of LNG, 1,200 years of coal, & Earth has 47-65 years of oil at current export rates. #StopFossilFuel corporates now. #CoalNo #1200Years #GasNo #OilNo #CleanEnergyYes #SaveEarth #ClimateAction #Biodiversity #Sustainability #CommonSense #AusPol 💚 🌏 🌱

Let's see who runs out of resources first: #Iran or the #US and #Israel. Spending more than $800 million to oil war #machinery per day is a betrayal towards the US #taxpaying #citizens. Iraq and Afghanistan invasions were 'zero positive outcome wars'. Nor will be the Iran war as well.

The Strait of Hormuz carries 20% of the world’s oil. Trump shut it down with a war no one voted for. Now YOU pay more for gas, groceries, flights, and everything in between. #TrumpsGasProblem #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

#Iran's warning to Mine the #Strait of #Hormuz is, indeed, a clear indication of an economic war on the front. If it does happen, this would have #devastating effects on the #ecology. It is a refuge for unique #species and a #transitional route. It should be seen beyond a strategic trade route.

Environmental impacts of the #Iran-Israel war are visible now. The Met office in #Pakistan has predicted rains in western parts of the country and has cautioned rain clouds may carry #pollutants caused as a result of attacks on Iran's #oil sites thus worsening #air quality. #environment #climate

Singapore has lost most of its primary forest since the 19th century, and roughly a third of terrestrial vertebrate species have disappeared locally. But there are new efforts to rewild the city state. news.mongabay.com/2026/03/can-...

Archived camera-trap images have revealed a potential new stronghold for endangered Asian tapirs in Thailand’s Khlong Seang–Khao Sok Forest Complex. A study using camera-trap “bycatch” data suggests the forest could hold far more tapirs than previously thought, though researchers urge caution.

Pakistan faces the severe and first direct economic impact of the #Iran-Israel war as the government decided to hike the #petrol price by Rs55 taking the per-liter rate up to Rs321.17. This will leave the people in dire straits given the already weak economic conditions facing the country.

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. Texas is about to overtake California in battery storage | Electrek Find out more: electrek.co/2026/02/23/texa... #ClimateAction

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social] A global study using Indigenous and local knowledge across three continents finds bird communities shifting toward smaller species over the past 80 years — suggesting widespread loss of larger birds.

This is how the West is earning peace through its own ways. Period.

This is scary!

Pakistan strikes Kabul hours after Afghanistan attack on border troops

Brazil plans to blast the Lourenção Rocks on the Tocantins River, but fishers say many affected communities aren’t officially recognized. Scientists warn the “underwater Galápagos” could be devastated as shipping expansion prioritizes exports over traditional livelihoods.

Recommended read: The @financialtimes.com took a closer look at a “strange new force blighting the [Arctic] landscape”: rivers turning rust-orange due to global warming.

Recommended listen: A Straits Times podcast discussed whether import-dependent Singapore can afford to shelve its goal to produce 30% of its food locally by 2030.

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The 2014–2017 Global Coral Bleaching Event was the most severe on record, affecting more than half of the world’s reefs, and a new global bleaching event that began in 2023 suggests that large-scale damage is continuing as oceans warm. news.mongabay.com/2026/02/cora...

The Amazon generates 20 billion of dollars’ worth of rainfall each year, study finds. news.mongabay.com/2026/02/the-...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Being honest about our A.I. use, in my experience, strengthens trust between doctors and patients and will hopefully lead to better care,” the physician Adam Rodman writes.

The death of Heather Preen: how an eight-year-old lost her life amid the UK sewage crisis