When scientist Loyiso Dunga began mapping the Great African Seaforest in 2016, he decided to go snorkeling. The South African ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the ...

At a September 2021 public hearing in Manaus, Philip Fearnside read from a prepared statement laying out his case against ...

Researchers have   a population of an extremely rare plant species, last recorded in Sri Lanka in 1855, growing in a lowland forest fragment along the Sitawaka Ganga River. Documenting the finding in ...

Since she was old enough to understand it, Uma Talavan has known she belongs to the Indigenous Siraya people.  She knew ...

Like many coastal communities across East Africa, the residents of Shamiani have grown accustomed to watching the sea yield ...

Mario never set out to become a lionfish hunter. An engineer by training and founder of the local dive center Tela Divers, he ...

Even as rescuers worked through mud and debris Friday in areas devastated by a catastrophic flash flood along the Himalayan ...

The endangered eastern quoll, one of Australia’s species of quoll, is a nocturnal carnivorous marsupial that is small in ...

At around 1 a.m. on April 29, 2026, in a courtroom in Maranhão’s Bom Jardim district, Judge Philipe Silveira da Cunha ...

Under our Syilx Okanagan law, everything is sacred to us. We believe that Mother Earth is alive, all of kʷuləncutn, the ...

In Ndrele, a commercial center in Ituri with nearly 40,000 inhabitants, there is virtually no access to safe drinking water.