Biologist Erik Cordes has spent much of his career studying cold-water reefs — coral systems typically found in chilly, dark ...

In Nkhundye, a farming community in Zambia’s Eastern province, cattle dung from a communal kraal, a traditional livestock ...

In March, the Ghanaian parliament approved what could become the West African nation’s first lithium mine. Atlantic Lithium’s ...

Tropical primary forest loss fell sharply in 2025, dropping 36% from the record highs of the previous year, according to new ...

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

Flash floods are a common occurrence in Bangladesh’s northeastern haor (shallow wetland ecosystem) region. These large bowl-shaped topographic depressions remain inundated for around seven months ...

Angola has declared its highest mountain, Mount Moco, part of a new conservation area to protect its threatened Afromontane forests. The Serra do Moco Conservation Area, which includes a complex of ...

Indonesian authorities are pursuing a criminal investigation into two senior public health managers over the most recent ...

Several recent articles at Mongabay regarding mental health in the conservation sector provide a much-needed overview of an ...

The idea that the Earth can be “searched” like a database has circulated for several years in academic and technical circles.

In 2022, at the U.N. Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, Canada, 196 nations pledged to conserve 30% of land and inland ...

Winds sweep across the world’s oceans every day, and harnessing that largely unused resource has the potential to provide ...