Since it was first described by scientists in 2017, the Tapanuli orangutan, one of the world’s rarest great apes, was ...

Scientists recently discovered vast freshwater reservoirs beneath the Atlantic seafloor, stretching off the U.S. East Coast ...

This is the second part of Mongabay’s series on the expanding wolf population in California. Read the first part here. In May ...

The stench of decay spread for several miles around Poza Rica on Wednesday, one of the areas hardest hit by last week’s ...

Australia and Japan dominate fishing of southern bluefin tuna, but Indonesia is pushing for a larger share of the global ...

In Colombia’s Amazon, two communities have worked for more than a decade to guard their territory and to protect the right of ...

In the southern Argentinian province of Chubut, in the pristine region of Patagonia Azul, arid grasslands give way to steep ...

The government of Benin is focusing on building solar power plants as part of a policy to make renewable energy the main ...

How are whale populations faring? Traditionally, getting an answer to that question involved counting whales by taking their ...

From three species of Arctic seals to more than half of all birds globally, several animals have slipped closer to extinction ...

As part of the conservation process for Asian elephants, Bangladesh has taken a new step to retrieve captive elephants from their current owners and rehabilitate them in the wild. According to the ...

In a new report, marine activists are demanding restoration efforts from nickel miners and the Indonesian government for ...