There’s a third species of manta ray gracefully gliding through the seas, a recent study has confirmed. Researchers have named the newly described species, found in the western Atlantic, Mobula yarae ...

Wildlife conservationists have sounded the alarm that leopard poaching in Sri Lanka is being carried out more systematically ...

A new report by the IUCN finds that two of the world’s most endangered species are still perilously close to extinction.

Lake Chad is nearly 1,130 kilometers (700 miles) from the ocean, but Nwamaka Okeke-Ogbuafor fears it is a preview of what’s ...

On Sept. 8, 2020, a brush field in southern Oregon, in the northwestern U.S., caught fire. Over the next week, “walls” of ...

It was a cool, quiet morning in March 2025 when we visited the lush green Agro-Eco farm, and a dozen young people were ...

The tide is rising. On the Teluk Air Tawar-Kuala Muda coast (TAT-KM) of Penang state in Peninsular Malaysia, fishers are ...

Suresh Raj, a 73-year-old gunsmith who lives inside a national park on the edge of the South Indian metropolis Bengaluru, has ...

Nigeria’s economic capital of Lagos is one of the world’s most plastic-polluted cities. Lagos state authorities last month ...

Carlos Mallo Molina grew up inspired by his engineer father who led port construction projects across Spain. But while ...

Scroll through social media, and you’re sure to find videos of cockatoos swaying rhythmically to music. Scientists studying ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The country best known for samba and soybeans has quietly become the world’s largest ...