The Maya Golden Landscape in southern Belize is a patchwork of protected areas, agricultural lands and small communities, ...

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

Leopards — solitary, enigmatic, nocturnal predators with golden fur splashed with dark rosette spots — have the widest range ...

While much has been written about bitcoin, many people still find it a hard topic to comprehend, even as promoters like U.S.

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I have spent much of my life studying predatory fishes in East Africa’s coastal waters, but never have I been more concerned ...

The Moken, a nomadic seafaring people in Thailand, have for generations lived most of their days at sea, moving from one ...

Latin American cartels once were masters of the drug trade, but spikes in prices led them into controlling a new venture.

Thousands of people used to cross the Darién Gap every day. Emerging from the rainforest, they would stop in small towns ...

One of Switzerland’s glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country’s glaciers. Holes are emerging inside — a bit like Swiss cheese — seemingly caused by ...

At the world’s first global congress of Indigenous peoples and local communities from forest basins, representatives began ...

United Nations rights officials have raised the alarm over alleged human rights abuses and environmental destruction linked ...