Mountains of waste stretch as far as the eye can see, smoking in places, giving off an acrid stench that stings the eyes and ...

Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions ...

On Rábida Island in the Galápagos, where red-tinged beaches meet ancient lava formations, Mares’s leaf-toed gecko ...

The Vidattaltivu Nature Reserve, nestled along Sri Lanka’s northwestern coast in the Mannar district, is home to one of the ...

For the pastoralist Nuer people who migrate with the seasons between western Ethiopia’s Gambella region and Africa’s largest ...

More than a decade ago, a mysterious illness killed billions of sea stars, particularly along the North American Pacific ...

Firefighters and local authorities remained on high alert Friday after France’s largest wildfire in decades was contained in ...

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

While most tropical countries experienced record-high deforestation rates in 2024, Indonesia’s forest loss is slowing, ...

Singapore, the smallest country in Southeast Asia, lost most of its original forest cover in the early 1800s to agriculture.

Mao Man, a 65-year-old ethnic Cham fisher in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh,  says he isn’t sure how many times he’s had ...

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining employs more than 15 million people globally and generates a fifth of global gold ...