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

Communities living near mining operations in the southern Philippines’ Caraga region are feeling the toll of the global ...

Soaring cacao prices over the last three years are fueling deforestation and conflict in Grand Gedeh county of Liberia, in ...

Twenty brilliantly colored red-browed amazons took flight over a reserve holding one of the few remaining intact swaths of ...

We all know that “ignorance of the law is no excuse,” but in daily life, ignorance of the consequences of one’s actions is, ...

Chileans will go to the polls on Nov. 16 to vote for a new president, 23 Senate seats, and all 155 seats in the lower Chamber ...

Since September 2025, dozens of Indigenous leaders and organizations, land rights activists and nonprofits in Ecuador have ...

Japanese researchers have described a new species of sea anemone that appears to share a mutually beneficial relationship with hermit crabs. The pale pink sea anemones, now named Paracalliactis ...

The World Energy Outlook 2025, released Nov. 12 by the International Energy Agency (IEA), portrays an African continent where ...

Around half of Zanzibar’s population of 2 million people live unconnected from the electricity grid. But one program is ...

In 2024, Mongabay investigative reporter Fernanda Wenzel traveled to one of the most dangerous spots in the Brazilian Amazon ...

In this series, Letters to the Future, the 2025 cohort of Mongabay’s Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellows share their ...