Peru plans to reinforce its mining sector this year with billions of dollars in investment across several ongoing projects, ...

Solar power is expanding rapidly across Africa, with some countries now generating a significant share of electricity from ...

Sea-level rise has accelerated across Africa in recent decades, thanks to global warming and, in particular, to the melting ...

Regenerating tropical forests pull carbon dioxide from the air, but a lack of nitrogen in the soil could slow this process, a ...

I am often asked what Mongabay’s legacy is, or what it might turn out to be. The question usually comes with an assumption ...

New data show Peru has the Amazon’s largest oil and gas footprint and most lease blocks in rainforest areas overlap ...

Mongabay recently launched the Australian Biodiversity Special Reporting Project, which will produce sustained, high-quality ...

One morning during the July monsoon in Bang, a village of 3,000 in North Cameroon, people woke up to heavy rains. The Mayo Tefi, a small river which runs through the village, swelled as the water ...

The road to the headquarters of the Loeha Raya Farmers’ Cooperative is inundated from the monsoon, and a baby cayman splashes ...

Indigenous rights activists have condemned the Indonesian government’s decision to grant 328,000 hectares (810,505 acres) of ...

In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the country, families of fishers take turns in guarding the entrances of oxbow lakes ...

Deep in the coastal woods of South Carolina, behind high fences, guard dogs, and security cameras, is a group of people who ...