A wildfire in California’s Joshua Tree National Park burned through some 29 hectares (72 acres) of land during the recent ...

Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed ...

Mangroves in the Philippine city of Tacloban, the area hit hardest by one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, have ...

Efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change have focused largely on the protection of tropical forests like the Amazon ...

There is a certain delay in nature — so says a metaphor that refers to the natural time of environments in responding to ...

Indigenous women leaders don’t only sustain life in their territories; they are also active defenders of water, seeds, ...

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

It’s a cool morning in the montane rainforest of western Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park. Sunbeams stream down from the canopy, glowing in the mist. Birdsong pierces the still air. Jacques Habimana, a ...

When Denuwarage Kusumalatha (54) saw flood water reach her doorstep in the wee hours of Nov. 29, it was already too late. A ...

Flooded homes and submerged roads are now reshaping life in coastal and island communities in the Philippines, showing how a ...

Dec. 4 is International Cheetah Day. It was established in 2010 by the Cheetah Conservation Fund to raise awareness about the ...

Violence has escalated in the small Brazilian town of Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade as illegal gold mining on the nearby ...