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

A U.K. judge has found that the Australian multinational mining company BHP is liable for a 2015 dam collapse in southeastern ...

In 2024, the state of Querétaro in north-central Mexico suffered its worst drought in a century, impacting crops and ...

After years of pushing the world to limit Earth’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, climate leaders are starting to acknowledge ...

In undercover raids carried out in late September, Mexican authorities discovered 2,339 wild-caught turtles crammed into bins in five locations in Jalisco and Baja California states. Along with the ...

In a meeting room in a head office in London, a handful of early-career conservationists from around the world sat in a ...

In 2019, researcher Kit Prendergast was surveying the insects visiting an incredibly rare plant in the Bremer Ranges of ...

Communities living around a remote, mountainous forest in southeastern Bangladesh, close to Myanmar, have reported cross-border incidents of elephant poaching for years but there was no confirmed ...

Global reindeer populations could fall by more than half by 2100 due to the impacts of climate change, including the ...

Since September 2025, dozens of Indigenous leaders and organizations, land rights activists and nonprofits in Ecuador have ...

As governments debate how to mobilize trillions of dollars in climate finance, Indonesia is using the COP30 climate summit in Brazil to aggressively promote its carbon market — a system that experts ...

We all know that “ignorance of the law is no excuse,” but in daily life, ignorance of the consequences of one’s actions is, ...