A rare sighting of a baby dugong off Alor in East Nusa Tenggara has sparked renewed attention to the importance of protecting ...

More than eight hundred years ago, Maimonides wrote that the highest form of giving is to make charity itself unnecessary.

Guava farmer Haralal Halder, in his 45 years of farming profession in coastal Bangladesh, had never experienced a ...

Illegal cattle ranching has torn through Nicaragua’s rainforests in recent years, supplying a growing international market ...

On the morning of March 26, 2013, approximately 60,000 liters (16,000 gallons) of an oil byproduct used to produce asphalt ...

A South African court has nullified the environmental authorization for state-owned electricity utility Eskom’s proposed ...

Intact forests struggle to escape climate degradation, exposing new impacts coming from increasingly warming temperatures.

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New research has found that deep-sea mining in international waters could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and ...

On June 17, marine biologist Enrico Gennari and a group of students set out into the water in South Africa’s Mossel Bay. They ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. “I knew I ...

The last known photo of the slender-billed curlew, a grayish-brown migratory waterbird, was taken in February 1995 at Merja ...