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Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions ...

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The Vidattaltivu Nature Reserve, nestled along Sri Lanka’s northwestern coast in the Mannar district, is home to one of the ...

While most tropical countries experienced record-high deforestation rates in 2024, Indonesia’s forest loss is slowing, ...

More than a decade ago, a mysterious illness killed billions of sea stars, particularly along the North American Pacific ...

For the pastoralist Nuer people who migrate with the seasons between western Ethiopia’s Gambella region and Africa’s largest ...

The lion, with its majestic mane and the loudest growl of all the big cats, is today a vulnerable species with decreasing ...

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

When the sheep were removed, the páramo — high-altitude ecosystems in the Andes — started to heal. Without their waste, water ...

The command-and-control approach to reducing or eliminating environmental wrongdoing depends on both carrots and sticks. The ...

Mao Man, a 65-year-old ethnic Cham fisher in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh,  says he isn’t sure how many times he’s had ...