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

The rate of tropical primary forest loss fell sharply in 2025, reversing the record highs of the year before. On paper, it ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...