Brazil votes to allow most projects & farms to skip environmental licensing
Tue 11:10am By
Brazil’s lawmakers have voted, by an overwhelming majority, to weaken the nation’s environmental…Artificial incubation gives Colombia’s threatened Andean condor a new lifeline
Tue 7:23am By
In an isolated backroom of a nature reserve near Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, Wayra, a recently…Peru’s Río Abiseo park yields new marsupial, hinting at more undiscovered species
Tue 7:06am By
In 2018, Brazilian biologist Silvia Pavan traveled to Río Abiseo National Park, in Peru’s San…In Ecuador’s Yasuní, cameras reveal the wild neighbors visitors rarely see
Tue 5:28am By
Ecuador’s northern Amazon is home to some of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, including…New ventures set out to tackle the plastic choking Bangladesh’s ECAs
Tue 4:17am By
The amount of single-use plastic that gets recycled as a measure to manage plastic pollution is…International Jaguar Day: A year of wins for the big cat
Tue 1:29am By
Every Nov. 29 is International Jaguar Day, created to raise awareness about threats the jaguar…Critical minerals dropped from final text at COP30
Mon 11:34pm By
Delegates at last month’s U.N. climate change summit, or COP30, adopted a new mechanism to…Indigenous Dayak sound alarm as palm oil firm razes orangutan habitat in Borneo
Mon 11:01pm By
KAPUAS HULU, Indonesia — A palm oil company is rapidly clearing rainforest inside a UNESCO…Lost at sea, found in Latin America: the journeys of discarded plastic bottles
Mon 8:34pm By
Sandwiched between the frigid swells of the Pacific and the warm pulses of Latin American cities lie…Healthy oceans are a human right (commentary)
Mon 5:43pm By
Months after a container ship went down off the coast of India, toxic pollution still contaminates…SE Asia forest carbon projects sidelining social, biodiversity benefits, study finds
Mon 12:18pm By
Home to Asian elephants, gibbons and critically endangered black-shanked douc langurs, the forests…Octopuses use their arms to sense and respond to microbiomes on the seafloor
Mon 8:01am By
From the beginning of life on Earth, microbes, small but influential single-celled organisms, have…Indigenous knowledge and science join forces to save the choro mussel in Chile
Mon 7:18am By
Huellelhue means “place for swimming” in Mapudungun. It’s also the name of one of the rivers…In Kenya, Maasai private landowners come together to protect wildlife corridors
Mon 7:16am By
“Look, giraffes are walking in front of me. We have hundreds of them in our conservancy. There are…The valuable peatlands of Peru’s Pastaza River Fan: one of the world’s largest carbon reservoirs
Mon 5:24am By
On the banks of the Pastaza River, in Peru’s northern Datem del Marañón province, Kietre…Small grants can empower the next generation of conservationists
Mon 5:14am By
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis,…Amazon’s stingless bee propolis shows potent healing power, studies show
Mon 2:30am By
Açaí’s deep purple pulp is widely considered a “superfood” for its antioxidants, vitamins…Endangered knowledge and endangered plants: Threats to Indigenous medicinal traditions in Borneo
Nov 30, 2025, 7:42 pm By
In Borneo’s dense rainforest, some communities of Punan people still find their medicine among the…Changing weather patterns threaten time-tested houses in Nepal village
Nov 29, 2025, 9:59 am By
MUSTANG, Nepal — Sudip Thakali now plans to change the roof of his family house from mud to…The long life of a Galápagos tortoise
Nov 29, 2025, 9:59 am By
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