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

It’s not easy to find a sloth in the middle of the forest. They spend most of their time in the tree canopy and are masters ...

A U.K. judge has found that the Australian multinational mining company BHP is liable for a 2015 dam collapse in southeastern ...

In 2024, the state of Querétaro in north-central Mexico suffered its worst drought in a century, impacting crops and communities. Seventeen of the state’s 18 municipalities were affected, putting ...

In 2019, researcher Kit Prendergast was surveying the insects visiting an incredibly rare plant in the Bremer Ranges of ...

Global reindeer populations could fall by more than half by 2100 due to the impacts of climate change, including the ...

For Cleodie Rickard, the policy and campaigns manager at Global Justice Now, the term “critical” minerals, commonly used to ...

Since September 2025, dozens of Indigenous leaders and organizations, land rights activists and nonprofits in Ecuador have ...

Planting trees is something most people can get behind, and tens of thousands of reforestation projects now operate worldwide ...

We all know that “ignorance of the law is no excuse,” but in daily life, ignorance of the consequences of one’s actions is, ...

In Quebec’s Gaspésie region, Indigenous river guardians say they are in a race against climate change to protect the Atlantic ...

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