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

The first time Virgilio Viana saw the Amazon up close, he was a 16-year-old with a backpack, two school friends and very ...

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

As negotiations at this year’s United Nations climate summit, or COP30, near the finish line in Belém, Brazil, the gap in ...

Communities in Lesotho have filed a complaint with the African Development Bank over a controversial initiative that ...

Christopher C. Grinter has spent much of his life surrounded by insects, though not in the way most people imagine. As Senior ...

In Peripa, an Indigenous Tsáchila village in Ecuador, there are still traditional healers, but medicinal plants are ...

Sea otters living along the coastline of Canada’s British Columbia province carry residues of “forever chemicals” in their ...

A large forest in eastern Bolivia is on the verge of being sold to an international agriculture company, raising concerns ...

Burning fossil fuels and forests releases the well-known greenhouse gases that drive anthropogenic climate change. That ...

A surprisingly simple and creative innovation could help restoration projects in the tropics, according to a recent study.

The Norwegian government has granted permission for the construction and operation of the Nussir copper mine in Hammerfest, a ...