Category: 9. Environment

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.

In a farmhouse overlooking the Upper Delaware…

Human-driven climate change made the extreme rainfall that caused dozens of deaths in early April in the U.S. South and Midwest more intense and likely, according to a new rapid

Insects are all around us – an ant on the sidewalk, a bee buzzing by, a butterfly floating on the breeze – and they shape the world we experience. They pollinate flowering plants, decompose waste, control pests, and are critical links in…

Think of a major city in the United States. Chances are, its land is slowly sinking.

A new satellite radar study has now found evidence that the nation’s 28 most populous cities are all buckling under the pressure of urbanization, drought, or…

Coffee agroforests in India’s Western Ghats mountains, where coffee shrubs are grown under the shade of trees, could be a good source of seeds for forest restoration efforts,…

In April this year, Mozambican President Daniel Chapo announced the launch of a national petrochemical city project in Mavanza village in Vilankulo district of Inhambane province….