When the sheep were removed, the páramo — high-altitude ecosystems in the Andes — started to heal. Without their waste, water ...

Unusually heavy monsoon rains that killed more than 300 people across Pakistan since late June were made 15% more intense by ...

Brazil launched a military operation in late 2024 to clear out illegal gold mining from one of the most heavily impacted ...

The phrase malezi mema in Comorian loosely translates to “parenting well.” A fishers’ group of the same name on the island of ...

About two dozen police officers, government officials and a data specialist sat side by side in a command center in northern ...

The greed of mining companies in their search for critical minerals in Brazil is threatening food production and the ...

Fish maw — the dried swim bladder of ray-finned fishes — is prized across East and Southeast Asia as a culinary delicacy and ...

A new study links widespread deficiency of vitamin B1, or thiamine, among  California Chinook salmon to their deaths. This ...

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

The Salween River, at around 3,300 kilometers, or 2,000 miles, is Asia’s longest free-flowing river, running from Tibet ...

The Walia ibex, an iconic wild goat species found only on the steep, ragged cliffs of the Simien Mountains in northern ...

Illegal invasions in the Karipuna Indigenous Territory in the northwest of the Brazilian Amazon have started to advance again ...