California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level.

Hurricane Melissa, an intense Category 5 storm, brought violent winds and heavy rainfall to Jamaica after making landfall ...

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 ...

More people are getting sick due to sand and dust storms that are now more intense and frequent, contributor Sean Mowbray ...

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

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 ...

The Great Wall of China, Petra of Jordan, Ellora Caves of India, the traditional Ottoman Houses in Turkey — none of these ...

More than half of Cambodia and Laos’ tree cover loss in 2024 was recorded inside protected areas, Mongabay’s Gerald Flynn reports. The findings were a result of Mongabay’s analysis of satellite data ...