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

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. Early on ...

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

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

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 ...

For many Brazilians, the country’s Indigenous peoples are considered the main protectors of nature. This is one of the key ...

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 ...

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