Environment

There are many important conservation and environmental stories Mongabay isn’t able to cover.Here’s a digest of some of the significant developments from the week.If...

A new study has found that abandoned pasturelands in the Brazilian Cerrado do not regain their former biodiversity even after as much as 25...

  A recent study shows that Bornean bantengs in recently logged forests in Malaysia’s Sabah state have become less active during the daytime in...

Below are summaries of the most read stories by our Spanish language service, Mongabay Latam, from the week of April 9 – 15. The...

Researchers have revealed a new species of exploding ant, which they discovered living in the rainforest canopy of Brunei on the island of Borneo.Named...

Robin Van Loon is founder of Camino Verde in Peru, an organization working to go above and beyond sustainable agro-economics in favor of regenerative...

More than 500 kilograms of pangolin scales were confiscated at the Cotonou airport in Benin on March 19.Three people suspected of trying to smuggle...

Brazil is reporting its CO2 emissions within U.N. guidelines, but those rules ignore significant sources of national greenhouse gas emissions ¬by disregarding carbon emitting...

A unified database integrating all of the land-use maps currently in use in Indonesia is set for an earlier-than-expected launch this August, as the...

Scientists have discovered a large nursery of octopus mothers some 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) deep in the Pacific Ocean.The octopuses are an unknown species...

Scientists sampling water for the environmental DNA of fish had the unique opportunity to test the potential of using eDNA to detect the presence...

An official investigation into an oil spill last month in Indonesian Borneo found a lack of warning systems that would have alerted state oil...