How many marine fish species do bottom trawls catch? Researchers now have a list, and it’s long, running to some 3,000 ...

In Nautla, a municipality on the coast of the Mexican state of Veracruz, soft folds of sand await sea turtles as their annual ...

Where are the orcas at? Answering that question with pinpoint accuracy is crucial to protecting the famed “southern resident” ...

A proposed dam in Kathmandu’s northeastern ridge promises to revive the sewage-choked sacred Bagmati River that runs past ...

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.

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 ...

An immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” will remain open, an appeals court ...

The fog of war is pervasive, but one thing is clear as “Gulf War 3” escalates: governments around the world are counting the ...

Félix Tshisekedi is banking on one of Africa’s most ambitious conservation and development plans to transform the future of ...