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

A Kenyan environmentalist hugged a palm tree for 72 straight hours in Nyeri county to draw attention to the rapid loss of the ...

Sri Lanka’s misty hill country, a hub for nature-based tourism, is currently grappling with the aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah.

Researchers have described a new-to-science species of carnivorous plant that’s known from only three locations on the ...

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

On the island of Sherbro in Sierra Leone, as in much of the country, there’s limited access to vital services needed to make ...

Authorities in Cape Town, South Africa, have released an updated baboon action plan aimed at reducing conflict between people ...

Colombia is the world’s third-largest coffee producer and the main producer of Arabica coffee, which is known worldwide for ...

For much of the late 20th century, environmental writing oscillated between alarm and reassurance. One strand emphasized ...

Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s ...

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

Cyclone Ditwah, which claimed around 650 lives and left at least 200 people missing, cast a heavy pall of gloom over Sri ...