By Team Mongabay-India In 2025 Mongabay-India reported about several new-to-science species. It takes several months or even years for researchers to confirm the new species description through morphological, DNA, taxonomic, environmental, phylogenetic assessments, and more. However, the stories we published this year about new species are small reminders that we have so much more to
By Rick Cleveland NEW ORLEANS – Notes and quotes from the Sugar Bowl: The biggest news of Sugar Bowl Media Day Tuesday was splendid news for Ole Miss football fans. All American running back Kewan Lacy pronounced himself “ready to go” for Thursday’s Sugar Bowl match with Georgia, and his coach, Pete Golding, confirmed Lacy’s
By Mie Hoejris Dahl 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 world’s known species, Latin America is one of the world’s most biodiverse
By Nathaniel Kyere Bekoe Social media has been abuzz with news of a man popularly known as Ebo Noah, who claims to have built an ark to save humanity ahead of an impending flood on Dec. 25, 2025. His video has garnered millions of views locally and globally. The Ebo Noah Fuss A Ghanaian social media user claims that he
By Richard Pomfret Despite an unsettled global backdrop, Central Asia’s economic performance in 2025 was solid, if uneven. The IMF’s October 2025 Regional Outlook projected real GDP growth in Central Asia and the Caucasus at 5.6 per cent, slightly higher than in 2024. Growth was strongest in the two poorest countries, Tajikistan (7.5 per cent) and Kyrgyzstan
