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

The first time Virgilio Viana saw the Amazon up close, he was a 16-year-old with a backpack, two school friends and very ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Indigenous women of childbearing age from Nicaragua’s Waspam municipality have been exposed to toxic levels of mercury, ...

At the COP30 climate summit currently underway in Belém, Brazil, adapting to climate change impacts is a major focus of ...

Congo Basin countries have announced the launch of a payments for environmental services, or PES, initiative at the COP30 ...