When the sheep were removed, the páramo — high-altitude ecosystems in the Andes — started to heal. Without their waste, water ...

Unusually heavy monsoon rains that killed more than 300 people across Pakistan since late June were made 15% more intense by ...

Brazil launched a military operation in late 2024 to clear out illegal gold mining from one of the most heavily impacted ...

The greed of mining companies in their search for critical minerals in Brazil is threatening food production and the ...

A new study links widespread deficiency of vitamin B1, or thiamine, among  California Chinook salmon to their deaths. This ...

The phrase malezi mema in Comorian loosely translates to “parenting well.” A fishers’ group of the same name on the island of ...

About two dozen police officers, government officials and a data specialist sat side by side in a command center in northern ...

Four Barbary lion cubs were born recently in a Czech zoo, a vital contribution for a small surviving population of the rare lion that is extinct in the wild. The three females and one male were seen ...

Fish maw — the dried swim bladder of ray-finned fishes — is prized across East and Southeast Asia as a culinary delicacy and ...

The Salween River, at around 3,300 kilometers, or 2,000 miles, is Asia’s longest free-flowing river, running from Tibet ...

A recent study published by Imazon, the Amazon Institute of People and the Environment, demonstrates how difficult it is to punish land grabbing in the Brazilian rainforest. The researchers analyzed ...

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