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Meet the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Six environmental activists from around the world will be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 20. Known as the “Green Nobel Prize,” the Goldman Prize honors activists from the six…

Six women have been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for 2026. This year’s winners secured major victories against fracking in Colombia, oil projects in the U.K., and mining in Papua New Guinea.

Their work proves that local action can drive global environmental justice.

Get to know them!

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

From a Surrey oil well to the supreme court: how an activist changed UK climate law Sarah Finch’s fight against drilling led to a landmark ruling on fossil fuel emissions – and a leading environmental prize

I am deeply honoured to have received the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize for Europe. This recognises my long fight as part of @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social over fossil fuel production – and our eventual landmark legal victory.

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Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines MAE HONG SON, Thailand — Saw Si Paw Rak Salween guns the wooden fishing boat’s engine and steers along the river that inspired his family name. He is ethnic Karen — his parents migrated from Myanmar’s...

Latest for @mongabay.com dives into the poisoning of the Salween River, Asia's longest free-flowing river. Unregulated mines in Myanmar have seen arsenic contamination reach dangerous levels on the Salween, leaving Indigenous Karen communities with no fish, no water and no solutions from governments

Join us next week for a workshop on deep sea mining

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Think Earth feels darker? You’re right – and NASA data proves it. - The Boston Globe Not only is the planet’s dimming bad for the economy, but it is also a threat to national security.

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:

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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 Says It Is ‘Not In My Interest’ To Debate Trump Amid Washington-Vatican Clash 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.

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.

Strait of Hormuz crisis should catalyze African biofertilizer production (commentary) In early mornings across rural Kenya, as the long rains approach, farmers are already at work. Fields are being cleared, seeds checked, and planting plans quietly rehearsed. But this year, alongside…

[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

In Tasmania, the mines have closed but the rivers remember The King River snakes through some of Tasmania’s most dramatic and diverse landscape, flowing past rainforest, button grass plains and the rugged peaks of the West Coast Range before emptying into a…

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.

The Looming Risk of Too Many Satellites and Debris in Space AI is spurring ever more data satellites in space. How humanity plans to deal with the clutter is still an open question.

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?

‘Rediscovered’ species in Papua spotlight importance of Indigenous knowledge It started with a set of photographs, taken of an animal captured in 2015 on the Bird’s Head Peninsula in Indonesian Papua, the western half of the island of New Guinea. The smallish animal with…

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.

Award for Mongabay x AP video

🏆 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...

Semafor graphic of China's wind industry dominance

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.

Pretty good thumper of a storm

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis) When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea e...

Enjoyed editing these reflections on the Solwara 1 expedition for @mongabay.com

Athough we know so much more about the deep sea now, nearly 20 years later, the discoveries have only just begun, as you say in the piece, @drandrewthaler.bsky.social

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis) When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea e...

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...

Critics push for more transparency at RFMOs that govern high seas fishing The organization responsible for managing the catch of more than half the world’s tuna holds a key section of its annual compliance meeting in secret. For three days, a committee of the Western and Ce...

Important idea for a book, David, and reform of the 17 regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) might deserve a shout:

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...

Robin

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 🐦‍⬛

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

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.

Don’t buy the hype

Wild ramps

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

ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI On the picket line in New York, union leaders said they expect "more concentrated conflicts" over AI in the news industry.

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...

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