Mongabay founder Rhett Butler reflects on building a global, nonprofit newsroom focused on local reporting, impact-driven ...

Under cover of night, a black-footed cat moves almost invisibly through the grasses of southern Namibia, hunting small ...

Emotions were running high when Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced the formal recognition of several ...

At the edges of continents, where water thins into mud and birds gather before long journeys, conservation has often been a ...

The focus of experts in global security tends to orbit familiar threats. War in Europe and the Middle East. Trade disruption ...

Good morning,” Walter Borbor, a social media-famous fisher, says to his followers in a 2022 Instagram video. “What we have here is a plantado.” He points to a large black floating device with a ...

Drought conditions have left over 2 million people facing hunger in parts of Kenya, with cattle-keeping communities in the northeast the hardest hit, according to the United Nations and others. In ...

More than 220 people were killed in two successive landslides on Jan. 28 and 29 in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The victims were artisanal miners known as “diggers.” The accident occurred at ...

In Sre Chhuk village, a quiet patch in northeast Cambodia where the Mekong’s smaller veins trace the edge of a fading ...

As Mongabay deepens its reporting across Africa’s biodiversity and climate challenges, award-winning senior science ...

On a March morning in the suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state’s capital in southern India, a group of fishers were ...

Sharks and rays in the Western Indian Ocean are facing an extinction crisis. Almost half of the region’s 270 known species ...