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

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

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

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

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

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