Drought, irregular rainfall, deforestation, and the legacy of unsustainable human activities have left vast areas across the ...

When BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2011, it led to the largest oil spill in U.S. history, ...

This year’s United Nations climate conference in November is in Belem, Brazil, a city facing high poverty and infrastructure ...

Despite being the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal — more than elephants, rhinos and tigers combined — pangolins remain ...

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

A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in ...

Indonesian civil society groups are challenging a controversial law they say enables forced evictions, weakens environmental ...

Indonesia’s marine ministry has approved one of Java’s largest coal plants to use vast amounts of seawater for cooling, ...

A few years ago, Maria Suryanti Jun had idea little idea of what an environmental defender was. Nor did she have any ...

Political will is among the most important factors in preventing tropical deforestation, according to a group of experts ...

I was making a joke and in my head I said, ‘I smell a threadsnake,'” Justin Springer, Caribbean program officer for the NGO ...

Honduras is currently facing a total of $19.4 billion in lawsuits from corporations, an amount equivalent to roughly 53% of ...