Kevin Junker’s renewable energy startup, SmartSolar, which installs and manages rooftop panels for its clients, announced it had secured $1.85 million in its first round of venture capital fundraising ...

Illegal gold miners have been moving into Amapá in the wake of federal raids on mining hotspots in other parts of the ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. At a time ...

In the wind-swept town of Khanke in northern Iraq, a fragile tree stands as a quiet symbol of resilience. Its slender trunk ...

Parrots numbered 44460 and 44461 don’t know it yet, but they’re about to meet the human species — with all the trauma that ...

Rugged red mountains tower over the aquamarine waters off Eilat in southern Israel. A group of divers plunges beneath the ...

Seychelles became the first country to comply with an international standard that aims to make governments’ management of ...

Microplastics are pervasive in the environment and often so small they can’t be seen with the naked eye. Removing them has ...

Beneath Sri Lanka’s serene waters, a pearl oyster cherished her pearl, living in harmony. But disaster struck when a blazing ...

Prosecutors in Indonesia have charged four judges and two lawyers accused of bribery in a recently concluded trial involving palm oil giants Permata Hijau, Wilmar and Musim Mas. The Attorney General’s ...

Indonesia is pressing ahead with construction of a new network of dams in Borneo to power a major “green” industrial estate ...

A Mongabay investigation that revealed an illegal cattle boom amid a record-high number of killings of Indigenous Guajajara ...