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

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

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 ...

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

The small, bell-shaped flowers that dangle like gems in dazzling hues of yellow, maroon, purple, brown and white give jewelflowers their name. Yet these plants, from the genera Streptanthus and ...

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

When a toucan plucks fruit from a tree in the Amazon Rainforest, it’s doing more than just finding lunch. Moving to a new ...

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

A landmark opinion from the United Nations International Court of Justice has ruled that rising sea levels caused by climate ...

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

Most coral reefs in the Caribbean could stop growing, and even start eroding, by 2040 if global warming continues unchecked, ...