An oil spill has contaminated 933 kilometers (about 580 miles) of shoreline along the western Gulf of Mexico, impacting the Mexican states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Campeche and Tabasco in eastern ...
Where are the orcas at? Answering that question with pinpoint accuracy is crucial to protecting the famed “southern resident” ...
How many marine fish species do bottom trawls catch? Researchers now have a list, and it’s long, running to some 3,000 ...
Grasslands, wetlands and other nonforest ecosystems are being converted to agricultural land far faster than forests. However ...
Since 1970, more than a third of the world's wetlands have been lost, at a rate three times faster than forest loss.
A proposed dam in Kathmandu’s northeastern ridge promises to revive the sewage-choked sacred Bagmati River that runs past ...
Traditionally, for members of the Indigenous Macaquiño community in the southeastern Colombian Amazon, the Vaupés River is ...
Rhinoceroses, one of the largest groups of animals on the planet, are fighting a battle for survival because of a prized body ...
Recent Mongabay articles by Jeremy Hance, Vik Mohan and Nerissa Chao, and Rhett Butler have laid bare a painful reality in ...
The fog of war is pervasive, but one thing is clear as “Gulf War 3” escalates: governments around the world are counting the ...
An immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” will remain open, an appeals court ...
Félix Tshisekedi is banking on one of Africa’s most ambitious conservation and development plans to transform the future of ...