On the island of Sherbro in Sierra Leone, as in much of the country, there’s limited access to vital services needed to make ...

For much of the late 20th century, environmental writing oscillated between alarm and reassurance. One strand emphasized ...

Colombia is the world’s third-largest coffee producer and the main producer of Arabica coffee, which is known worldwide for ...

Cyclone Ditwah, which claimed around 650 lives and left at least 200 people missing, cast a heavy pall of gloom over Sri ...

When it comes to capturing carbon, trees have always been our go-to. But a sinister switch is underway. A study published in the journal Nature reveals that moist tropical forests in Australia are now ...

Here on the southern coast of Indonesia’s Lombok Island, dozens of residents have been told to dismantle their food stalls and leave the shoreline to make way for the Mandalika tourism development ...

A Mongabay investigation that revealed Brazilian state-run institutions bulk-buying shark meat for public schools, hospitals ...

Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s ...

In a small stretch of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil lives a bright-orange species of frog that’s new to science, ...

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

At 75, Hasta Bahadur Sathighare Magar says he still remembers the time when the slopes above his village in the rural ...

When a young boy went missing near his mother’s rice field in Indonesian Borneo, the entire village searched for him. After ...