Myanmar is a country of extremes. From tropical forests, mangroves and wetlands to frost-bitten alpine mountain slopes and ...

On a busy weekday, the coastal strip of Bountiya in Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s second-biggest city, is eerily quiet. This was ...

Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...

A massive Amazonian fish yields the unique and once overlooked leather prized by luxury brands and Texas cowboys.

There are around 60,000 known tree species in the world, and they can do amazing things: store carbon, provide people with ...

In the rolling hills of Iñapari, a remote town in the Peruvian Amazon on the tri-border with Bolivia and Brazil, cattle ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For most of ...

A decade after tour guide Basil P. Das stumbled upon a small black-and-beige snake while working on his coffee farm in ...

Conservation often presents itself as a technical enterprise: how much land to protect, which species to prioritize, what ...

It was 27 December 2004. I was sitting at my computer in my office in Jakarta, Indonesia, my mind busy with plans for the New ...

Rare twin mountain gorillas born in DR Congo’s Virunga National Park are raising hopes for the survival of the endangered ...

Oman minerals treaty met resistance at UNEA-7, highlighting divisions over binding global standards for mining impacts.