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

Communities in Lesotho have filed a complaint with the African Development Bank over a controversial initiative that ...

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

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.

As negotiations at this year’s United Nations climate summit, or COP30, near the finish line in Belém, Brazil, the gap in ...

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

A surprisingly simple and creative innovation could help restoration projects in the tropics, according to a recent study.

At COP30 in Belém, the first climate summit held in the Amazon, something rare has happened. For years, the risks and ...

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

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

A large forest in eastern Bolivia is on the verge of being sold to an international agriculture company, raising concerns ...