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

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

A U.K. judge has found that the Australian multinational mining company BHP is liable for a 2015 dam collapse in southeastern ...

Global reindeer populations could fall by more than half by 2100 due to the impacts of climate change, including the ...

Two infant siamang gibbons cling to each other. Barely 6 months old, their lanky limbs entwine their tiny bodies as they ...

Communities living near mining operations in the southern Philippines’ Caraga region are feeling the toll of the global ...

In 2019, researcher Kit Prendergast was surveying the insects visiting an incredibly rare plant in the Bremer Ranges of ...

For Cleodie Rickard, the policy and campaigns manager at Global Justice Now, the term “critical” minerals, commonly used to ...

Since September 2025, dozens of Indigenous leaders and organizations, land rights activists and nonprofits in Ecuador have ...

Chileans will go to the polls on Nov. 16 to vote for a new president, 23 Senate seats, and all 155 seats in the lower Chamber ...

Twenty brilliantly colored red-browed amazons took flight over a reserve holding one of the few remaining intact swaths of ...

In 2024, the state of Querétaro in north-central Mexico suffered its worst drought in a century, impacting crops and communities. Seventeen of the state’s 18 municipalities were affected, putting ...