Over the last few years, the Venezuelan government has taken a surprising interest in the environment. President Nicolás ...

The whale shark — a shark, not a whale — is the largest fish in the world, roughly the length of a city bus. Whale sharks ...

The deep sea, the planet’s most expansive and least understood ecosystem, remains largely unexplored. Yet while the deep sea ...

Capturing carbon to ship or funnel it offshore for storage in depleted marine oil and gas wells is gaining momentum as a ...

In the cathedral of ice beneath Antarctica’s frozen sea, male leopard seals conduct their solitary concerts. Day after day, sometimes for 13 hours straight, these predators plunge into the frigid ...

Indonesia’s courts have ordered plantation companies to pay more than 21 trillion rupiah ($1.3 billion), an amount 28 times ...

The Philippine government has rolled out a sweeping forest land reform that officials say will attract investment while ...

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

Corvus meaning ‘raven’ in Latin and splendens meaning ‘shining’ or ‘brilliance’ — is a fitting name for the strikingly ...

In Colombia, the construction of illegal roads continues to damage protected areas. In Chiribiquete National Park, 525 ...

Despite years of research into their complex behavior and intelligence, orangutans remain critically endangered on the ...

Spain is deploying 500 more soldiers to help battle wildfires that have ravaged parched woodlands during a prolonged heat ...