In recent years, the Norwegian Embassy in Brazil has shifted its funding strategy to channel more resources directly to ...

Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are urging South American presidents meeting in Bogota this week to turn promises ...

Heaters, pumps and computerized meters rigged to an everyday picnic icebox may seem like a high school science project. But ...

Over the last few years, the Venezuelan government has taken a surprising interest in the environment. President Nicolás ...

The whale shark — a shark, not a whale — is the largest fish in the world, roughly the length of a city bus. Whale sharks ...

The deep sea, the planet’s most expansive and least understood ecosystem, remains largely unexplored. Yet while the deep sea ...

Capturing carbon to ship or funnel it offshore for storage in depleted marine oil and gas wells is gaining momentum as a ...

In the cathedral of ice beneath Antarctica’s frozen sea, male leopard seals conduct their solitary concerts. Day after day, sometimes for 13 hours straight, these predators plunge into the frigid ...

Indonesia’s courts have ordered plantation companies to pay more than 21 trillion rupiah ($1.3 billion), an amount 28 times ...

The Philippine government has rolled out a sweeping forest land reform that officials say will attract investment while ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. To work in ...

Corvus meaning ‘raven’ in Latin and splendens meaning ‘shining’ or ‘brilliance’ — is a fitting name for the strikingly ...