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

South African state electricity company Eskom is reevaluating two sites to host the country’s third nuclear power plant, ...

Conservation officials have announced the death the first Javan rhino ever translocated as part of Indonesia’s conservation ...

A global system dubbed the “internet of animals,” which tracks wildlife via satellite, is one step closer to becoming a ...

The mood was equal parts celebratory and somber among the 300-odd Chagossians who came together at a community center in ...

A recent study provides the first detailed map of Cambodia’s coastal seafloor habitats and finds that simple, low-cost ...

A major global forestry certification body is under scrutiny for endorsing one of Indonesia’s largest recent deforesters, ...

News about the poaching and smuggling of threatened species often centers on products like tiger bone, rhino horn or pangolin ...

The terras caídas phenomenon also threatens riverside communities in the Brazilian Amazon, with several incidents in recent ...

Indonesia’s environmental challenges can feel overwhelming when taken as a whole. A country said to contain more than 17,000 ...

In Liberia, a country where small-scale fishers number in the tens of thousands, fishers go missing at sea every year. Some, ...

Flooding worsened by climate change is forcing a community in South Sudan to work constantly to keep water from encroaching ...