New research finds the U.S. trade in non-native amphibians for pets likely relies on illegal imports and captive breeding.

Five Indigenous Yanomami infants have reportedly died from a preventable respiratory illness called pertussis, or whooping cough. The outbreak began Jan. 7 in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in ...

Senegalese fishers accuse energy companies of polluting their waters near a major gas project, prompting an international ...

Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off Australia’s southern coast are having calves less often than they used to. A ...

The largetooth sawfish is a critically endangered fish distinguished by its long, blade-like snout edged with tooth-like ...

The tropical forests of the Amazon and Andes are some of the most biodiverse places on the planet, but across both regions, changes in climate and landscape conditions are driving a shift in the ...

Just three months ago, Brazil seemed close to winning the highest level of international trade protections for the country’s ...

Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an ...

In 2025, Mongabay recorded 111 million unique visitors to its websites, a 46% increase on the year before. Pageviews rose by ...

Warming and intensive farming are accelerating bird population declines across North America, a new Science study finds, with major risks for ecosystems and human well-being.

A Mongabay exposé that revealed widespread Brazilian government procurements of shark meat to serve in thousands of schools, hospitals, prisons and other public institutions has won first place in the ...

Ocean projects and governance systems abound globally— everything from offshore energy to coastal aquaculture and fishing treaties — yet there is no standardized way to measure how equitable they are.