In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

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

A cloud of condensation rises as Shangari Sekar, the assistant laboratory manager for Mandai Wildlife Group, carefully lifts ...

With the Islamic month of Ramadan now over, a familiar sight has returned to the streets of daytime Jakarta: street vendors ...

One unusual characteristic of Latin American nations is their proclivity to adopt new constitutions that reflect periodic ...

About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to ...

Studying insect-eating bats isn’t easy: they’re tiny, fly at night, and navigate using ultrasonic frequencies far above human ...

Across continents, “sacrifice zones” resemble wounds carved deep into the fabric of our planet. These are regions where ...

Ram Raj Dhakal, 22, jolts awake to an alert on his phone. A wild elephant has strayed into a village near Thakurdwara, on the ...

Most of what’s known about the deep-sea painted swellshark, was learned when researchers found specimens in the fish markets ...

In separate incidents in early March, officials across three Indonesian provinces rescued a critically endangered Sumatran ...