The death of a well-known wild animal is an odd kind of news. It is intimate, because so many people feel they have met the ...

A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore ...

Environmental and territorial defenders in Guatemala face a critical moment as violence targeting them increases across the ...

Camera traps installed in the world’s largest tiger reserve, in China, have captured footage of an Amur tigress and her five ...

In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a ...

In 2019, Bangladesh set a target to end the use of traditional bricks and switch to concrete blocks in all government construction works by June 2025. Aimed at preventing the loss of farmland and the ...

Extinction is rarely a moment. It is a process that unfolds offstage, marked by missed sightings, thinning records, and the ...

Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained ...

On a small airplane, José Manuyama, a professor, frowns and shakes his head with anguish while  thousands of feet below, five ...

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

Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some ...

Universities like to present themselves as durable institutions. They outlast governments, ride out recessions, and take ...