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 ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. At the U.N.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Burning fossil fuels and forests releases the well-known greenhouse gases that drive anthropogenic climate change. That ...

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