The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the U.S., providing key habitat for a huge variety of aquatic life, and it is ...

Biologist Erik Cordes has spent much of his career studying cold-water reefs — coral systems typically found in chilly, dark ...

Few countries are the focal point of as many expectations, tensions and contradictions as the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Environmental organizations in southwest Australia have criticized the Australian government’s decision to grant the U.S.

In March, the Ghanaian parliament approved what could become the West African nation’s first lithium mine. Atlantic Lithium’s ...

Wastewater pollution levels are higher inside many marine protected areas than in nearby unprotected areas, according to a ...

Tropical primary forest loss fell sharply in 2025, dropping 36% from the record highs of the previous year, according to new ...

Flash floods are a common occurrence in Bangladesh’s northeastern haor (shallow wetland ecosystem) region. These large bowl-shaped topographic depressions remain inundated for around seven months ...

Indonesian authorities are pursuing a criminal investigation into two senior public health managers over the most recent ...

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

Angola has declared its highest mountain, Mount Moco, part of a new conservation area to protect its threatened Afromontane forests. The Serra do Moco Conservation Area, which includes a complex of ...

In Nkhundye, a farming community in Zambia’s Eastern province, cattle dung from a communal kraal, a traditional livestock ...