In the mountains of central Veracruz, scientific work is rarely abstract. It means walking narrow paths through cloud forest, ...

Environmental and territorial defenders in Guatemala face a critical moment as violence targeting them increases across the ...

Camera traps installed in the world’s largest tiger reserve, in China, have captured footage of an Amur tigress and her five ...

In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a ...

Extinction is rarely a moment. It is a process that unfolds offstage, marked by missed sightings, thinning records, and the ...

A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore ...

On a small airplane, José Manuyama, a professor, frowns and shakes his head with anguish while  thousands of feet below, five ...

In 2019, Bangladesh set a target to end the use of traditional bricks and switch to concrete blocks in all government construction works by June 2025. Aimed at preventing the loss of farmland and the ...

Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained ...

The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the ...

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

The work of conservation in small island states is rarely abstract. It is shaped by land that is limited, institutions that ...