Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though ...

Indonesia has reclaimed more than 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres, about the size of Switzerland) of land nationwide ...

A new study finds Greenland sharks retain functional vision for over 100 years, challenging the belief that the world’s ...

After years of uneven progress, deforestation in Indonesia is poised to accelerate, owing to widespread logging, expanding ...

Since July 2024, three Andean condor chicks have hatched at an artificial incubation program located near Bogotá, Colombia’s ...

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

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

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

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

A massive Amazonian fish yields the unique and once overlooked leather prized by luxury brands and Texas cowboys.

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

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