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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

By the time New York Climate Week wrapped up in September this year, Robin Whytock had a point to make. Over the course of ...

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, ...

Thirty-five years ago, a Vietnamese hunter stumbled across the biggest cave on the planet — then promptly lost it. Hồ Khanh ...