In the village forests of Uttarakhand, in the Himalayan region of northern India, a tree can be charred at its base while ...

Mongabay found that 39 communities in Bolivia are suffering from mercury poisoning and that 125 more face a similar risk.

Indigenous territories in Ecuador’s Amazon maintain forest conditions as well as formal protected areas, while ...

Mongabay reviewed nearly three decades of scientific research on the impact of heavy metals and traveled to several Amazonian ...

Deep within Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, one of the most important peat swamp forests left on Earth is being cleared, ...

Carbon credit financing is helping to drive Africa’s clean cooking transition by making cleaner stoves affordable for ...

Every year, twice a year, millions of birds belonging to hundreds of species fly between breeding grounds in Europe and Asia ...

High above the lush forests of protected areas in the Congo Basin in eastern Congo, the calls of endemic birds and monkeys ...

Since China banned the import of plastic waste in 2018, plastic pollution has been having a growing impact on the people and ecosystems of Latin America. As the region imports an increasing amount of ...

In the narrow alleys of Bangkok’s Chatuchak Market, the world’s wildlife is for sale. Ensnared in jungles, fished out of ...

Scientists recently described a new species of a tiny brown frog found in the Amazonian floodplain forests of Ecuador and northwestern Brazil. It looks nearly identical to related species but its slow ...

Guided by its national philosophy of Gross National Happiness, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan aims to achieve food ...