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 ...

Five people were rescued after a pod of critically endangered Iberian orcas caused a sailboat to sink off Portugal’s Costa do ...

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

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

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

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

A South African court heard arguments Tuesday from coastal communities, NGOs and British oil and gas giant Shell on whether ...

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 ...