The kākāpō is a flightless bird endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand, and one of the heaviest parrots in the world. It’s also ...

Jaigaon, a densely populated town on India’s border with Bhutan, is facing a crisis of poor waste disposal, reports contributor Chandrani Sinha for Mongabay India. Much of the town’s plastic, ...

Reports on the health and vitality of the Amazon — often dubbed as Earth’s lungs — have been grim for years. Record drought ...

With evidence that the giant river otter is in an increasingly perilous state, delegates to the United Nations Convention on ...

Antarctic fur seals are the smallest of the polar seals and live almost exclusively on the island of South Georgia. The ...

Animals that cross borders often encounter conservation systems that stop at them. Migratory species move through ...

On a December morning, the early sunshine casts a golden sheen on the waters of Lake Victoria in Kenya’s Kisumu county. The ...

Emperor penguins are native to Antarctica, where record low sea ice over the last decade has dramatically changed their ...

José Manuel Bolieiro says he’s been an environmentalist for as long as he can remember. He recalls captivating encounters ...

KATHMANDU — Until a few decades ago, botanist Bharat Babu Shrestha observed abundant growth of Indian pennywort (Centella ...

In an isolated valley within Alerce Costero National Park in southern Chile, one tree towers above all others. At 30 meters ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of mahogany tree but with fewer than 30 individuals remaining, its already ...