Solar power is expanding rapidly across Africa, with some countries now generating a significant share of electricity from ...

Sea-level rise has accelerated across Africa in recent decades, thanks to global warming and, in particular, to the melting ...

I am often asked what Mongabay’s legacy is, or what it might turn out to be. The question usually comes with an assumption ...

New data show Peru has the Amazon’s largest oil and gas footprint and most lease blocks in rainforest areas overlap ...

Regenerating tropical forests pull carbon dioxide from the air, but a lack of nitrogen in the soil could slow this process, a ...

Brazil recently passed a law to recognize açaí, a berry endemic to the Amazon, as a national fruit, citing concerns about ...

Mongabay recently launched the Australian Biodiversity Special Reporting Project, which will produce sustained, high-quality ...

One morning during the July monsoon in Bang, a village of 3,000 in North Cameroon, people woke up to heavy rains. The Mayo Tefi, a small river which runs through the village, swelled as the water ...

The road to the headquarters of the Loeha Raya Farmers’ Cooperative is inundated from the monsoon, and a baby cayman splashes ...

In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the country, families of fishers take turns in guarding the entrances of oxbow lakes ...

Indigenous rights activists have condemned the Indonesian government’s decision to grant 328,000 hectares (810,505 acres) of ...

Deep in the coastal woods of South Carolina, behind high fences, guard dogs, and security cameras, is a group of people who ...