Tension swirls around the Laguna de los Micos in northern Honduras, is a critical marine ecosystem surrounded by mangroves ...

He never raised his voice in anger. When talks grew tense—whether across a union bargaining table or a forest-policy ...

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

At about 4,800 meters, or nearly 15,800 feet, above sea level, Cerro Rico towers over the city of Potosí, in Bolivia’s ...

More than eight hundred years ago, Maimonides wrote that the highest form of giving is to make charity itself unnecessary.

Riding in a helicopter, Fabiano Melo, with the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, searched for the elusive northern ...

When songbirds migrate through the Americas, they often cut through sections of the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico to save ...

Roarke Brown, a charter boat captain since 1972 in this picturesque fishing village, remembers being able to tread out onto the Kachemak Bay mud flats at low tide to fill a 5-gallon bucket with clams ...

A rare sighting of a baby dugong off Alor in East Nusa Tenggara has sparked renewed attention to the importance of protecting ...

Fifty African gray parrots have been released back into the wild in the Democratic Republic of Congo following their rescue ...

Climate activists worldwide are facing increased persecution and criminalization by governments, with some of the most severe ...

On June 17, marine biologist Enrico Gennari and a group of students set out into the water in South Africa’s Mossel Bay. They ...