Conservationist Ying Pemika Choovanichchanon holds a small basket in her hands, careful not to disturb the leathery brown ...

The eastern Baltic cod has shrunk dramatically in size in recent decades due to rapid evolution — changes at the genetic ...

As Africa’s environment ministers meet this week in Nairobi, Kenya, for the 20th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), the Global Environment Facility (GEF)is touting its decades ...

Heavy rainfall in Colombia and Venezuela caused deadly landslides and widespread flooding in June. A new analysis now points ...

Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill ...

The Indonesian government is revising a regulation that reopened the export of dredged sea sand, after the country’s Supreme ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In a nation where speaking up can lead to prison, a group of young ...

The Andean nations are unitary republics by history and constitution. Consequently, the push to devolve power to lower ...

In the early hours of July 17, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies approved a bill to ease environmental licensing, which NGOs ...

In early springtime in the Mojave Desert, Joshua trees provide one of the few foods available to many of the wildlife species ...

When the government of Sri Lanka published the  National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve ...

When Tiwonge Mzumara-Gawa was a child, her mother sent her to market with a basket woven from grasses. “But now we don’t do ...