An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the ...

Drought, irregular rainfall, deforestation, and the legacy of unsustainable human activities have left vast areas across the arid and semiarid regions of sub-Saharan Africa degraded, causing major ...

Indonesia’s marine ministry has approved one of Java’s largest coal plants to use vast amounts of seawater for cooling, ...

A few years ago, Maria Suryanti Jun had idea little idea of what an environmental defender was. Nor did she have any ...

From the air, the forests in Putumayo, Colombia’s southwestern Amazonian department, look scarred. Light brown lines snake ...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria’s assault on the Caribbean island of Dominica in 2017, researchers made a heartbreaking ...

A last-minute proposal to revise the European Union’s sweeping antideforestation law has conservationists worried about yet ...

The energy landscape is a shifting terrain, full of twists and turns, according to statistics in the latest report by the ...

Before pivoting her focus to the Arctic, Alysa McCall worked extensively in the grassland ecosystem. There, the interventions ...

For more than 10 years, a funding model has quietly done what many others have struggled to do: Funnel nature and climate ...

Political will is among the most important factors in preventing tropical deforestation, according to a group of experts ...

In an era where the stakes for biodiversity, climate, and sustainable development are rising across the African continent, ...