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Once a major river city, Belém turned its back on the water, leaving 40% of its urban area vulnerable to floods.

In a new short video, Mongabay visits the Dimonika Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO site in southwestern Republic of Congo. The ...

In April 2025, the town of Gloster, Mississippi, population 858, won a significant battle against the giant global wood ...

Earlier in 2025, political and administrative leaders in Senegal gathered to plant trees in a forest in the country’s ...

Mexico recently adopted national regulations protecting several threatened shark species in the Atlantic from being caught or ...

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In a monastery beside a 16th-century basilica in Pátzcuaro, Mexico, Dominican nuns move between rows of aquarium tanks, ...

This series, Voices from the Land, brings together opinion pieces led and written by Indigenous peoples from around the world. Through these commentaries, we share our lived realities and reflections ...