The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

A Mongabay investigation that revealed an illegal cattle boom amid a record-high number of killings of Indigenous Guajajara ...

In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to ...

A cloud of condensation rises as Shangari Sekar, the assistant laboratory manager for Mandai Wildlife Group, carefully lifts ...

With the Islamic month of Ramadan now over, a familiar sight has returned to the streets of daytime Jakarta: street vendors ...

One unusual characteristic of Latin American nations is their proclivity to adopt new constitutions that reflect periodic ...

Studying insect-eating bats isn’t easy: they’re tiny, fly at night, and navigate using ultrasonic frequencies far above human ...

This is part three of a series on the operation to evict illegal gold miners from the Munduruku Indigenous Territory. Read ...

Ram Raj Dhakal, 22, jolts awake to an alert on his phone. A wild elephant has strayed into a village near Thakurdwara, on the ...

Most of what’s known about the deep-sea painted swellshark, was learned when researchers found specimens in the fish markets ...

As REDD projects around the world face setbacks, restoration projects in the Amazon are flourishing as a means of reviving ...