Every Nov. 29 is International Jaguar Day, created to raise awareness about threats the jaguar (Panthera onca) faces, ...

A palm oil company is rapidly clearing rainforest inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve that’s home to orangutans and sun bears, ...

Look, giraffes are walking in front of me. We have hundreds of them in our conservancy. There are zebras, too, see! And ...

Delegates at last month’s U.N. climate change summit, or COP30, adopted a new mechanism to coordinate action on a just energy ...

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On the banks of the Pastaza River, in Peru’s northern Datem del Marañón province, Kietre Gonzales remembers just how close ...

Months after a container ship went down off the coast of India, toxic pollution still contaminates the water and plastic ...

From the beginning of life on Earth, microbes, small but influential single-celled organisms, have shaped the environment ...

Home to Asian elephants, gibbons and critically endangered black-shanked douc langurs, the forests of Cambodia’s Keo Seima ...

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