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

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

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 ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the Peruvian Amazon, a series of curious encounters has left biologists scratching ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...