After major ant seizures worldwide, conservationists urge CITES protections to curb the largely unregulated global trade in ...

Marine heat waves have become longer and more frequent along the U.S. West Coast, as elsewhere in the world. But heating ...

Great white shark populations in South Africa are disappearing, driven largely by human activities that are likely ...

The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an environmental catastrophe of ...

A canceled World Bank–funded tourism project in Tanzania continues to affect communities near Ruaha National Park, with ...

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

Myanmar is a country of extremes. From tropical forests, mangroves and wetlands to frost-bitten alpine mountain slopes and ...

On a busy weekday, the coastal strip of Bountiya in Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s second-biggest city, is eerily quiet. This was ...

Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...

There are around 60,000 known tree species in the world, and they can do amazing things: store carbon, provide people with ...

In the rolling hills of Iñapari, a remote town in the Peruvian Amazon on the tri-border with Bolivia and Brazil, cattle ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For most of ...