Historically, most United Nations agreements have been reached by consensus. But based on recent events, this no longer seems ...

Sara Olsvig is a veteran advocate for Indigenous rights at international meetings, maneuvering with some success even at ...

Flooding from torrential rain in northeastern China has killed at least 60 people since July 29, according to Xia Linmao, the deputy mayor of Beijing, China’s capital city.  The region hit hardest was ...

Two Indigenous groups in Panama are collaborating with researchers in a long-term reforestation project that promises them ...

Wildlife trafficking for the illegal pet trade in Nepal has made a significant shift online, according to recent research ...

Six months ago, the M23 rebel group seized Goma, one of the largest cities in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the time since, local activists and satellite images compiled by Mongabay ...

A new report by the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the U.S. National Drought Mitigation Center has ...

Camera traps installed high in the rainforest canopy in Malaysian Borneo have filmed a bounty of threatened primates, ...

Ethiopia has launched a national campaign to plant 700 million trees in one day. The ambitious goal, announced Thursday, is ...

Fifteen teams have advanced to the semifinal round of XPRIZE’s $5 million Autonomous Wildfire Response Track, moving one step closer to proving that autonomous systems can detect and extinguish ...

Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon who have only recently come into contact with the outside world say they want ...

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