On Sept. 8, 2020, a brush field in southern Oregon, in the northwestern U.S., caught fire. Over the next week, “walls” of ...

Lake Chad is nearly 1,130 kilometers (700 miles) from the ocean, but Nwamaka Okeke-Ogbuafor fears it is a preview of what’s ...

Nigeria’s economic capital of Lagos is one of the world’s most plastic-polluted cities. Lagos state authorities last month ...

Carlos Mallo Molina grew up inspired by his engineer father who led port construction projects across Spain. But while ...

Suresh Raj, a 73-year-old gunsmith who lives inside a national park on the edge of the South Indian metropolis Bengaluru, has ...

The tide is rising. On the Teluk Air Tawar-Kuala Muda coast (TAT-KM) of Penang state in Peninsular Malaysia, fishers are ...

Wildlife conservationists have sounded the alarm that leopard poaching in Sri Lanka is being carried out more systematically ...

It was a cool, quiet morning in March 2025 when we visited the lush green Agro-Eco farm, and a dozen young people were ...

Indonesia’s 2025 fire season is spiraling into one of the worst in recent memory, with a sharp spike in hotspots and toxic haze already choking parts of Malaysia. Forest and peat fires, mostly caused ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The country best known for samba and soybeans has quietly become the world’s largest ...

Wetlands are disappearing at three times the rate of forests, alarming conservationists who highlight the ecosystems’ role in ...