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. At the U.N.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The crow-sized, slate-blue-backed peregrine falcon, with its bright yellow feet, soars across the skies from Greenland’s ...

As Zambia looks to profit from the growing global demand for copper and other transition minerals — essential for the world’s ...