The continued failure to halt the BR-319 highway cutting through the Brazilian Amazon is an example of the systemic problem ...

Indigenous territories are widely recognized as vital for conserving the environment and biodiversity, but far less is known ...

Every year in the Gulf of Panama, between December and April, trade winds from the north push warm surface water away from ...

Rhett A. Butler, Mongabay founder and CEO, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders List, which honors 50 ...

The island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe has taken a significant step in marine conservation, announcing that it will ...

More than 100,000 people marched through Cuenca, a city in southern Ecuador, on Sept. 16, demanding that federal authorities ...

It’s early August 2025. Deep in the rainforests of Upolu, on the island of Samoa, Moeumu “Moe” Uili and I have paused our ...

Five people were rescued after a pod of critically endangered Iberian orcas rammed into a sailboat several times, causing it ...

When Laurie was a kid, she had recurrent nightmares that featured her getting eaten by a shark. Decades later, Laurie goes to ...

A new study reports that the Niassa Special Reserve, a 4-million-hectare (10-million-acre) wilderness in northern Mozambique, ...

The last rays of daylight filter through the trees as Andres “Tata” López, 56, the local Maya mayor, greets his neighbors ...

A new regional conservation area has been created in Loreto, the largest region in Peru’s Amazon. The Medio Putumayo Algodón ...