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While theme parks, water parks, national parks and beaches are top draws, why not consider adding in an aquarium visit?
Apartment blocks and shopping centers sprout like mushrooms around a wild cat sanctuary that shelters pumas recovering from ...
This story is the first article of a two-part Mongabay mini-series exploring possible climate futures. Read Part One.
Killed in the rainforest he hoped to help save, the journalist Dom Phillips left behind an unfinished manuscript. Those who ...
They were there to speak to fishermen for a book that Phillips was writing about solutions to environmental degradation in the Amazon. Phillips had been living and reporting in Brazil for fourteen ...
With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions ...
Co-directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman, the documentary introduces us to several competing concerns: activists, logging interests and landowners.
Forest loss reached 371 square miles during the period, the second-highest total for May since the current monitoring system ...
The Amazon forest adapted to long dry conditions with fewer big trees and slower carbon uptake. Younger trees grew, balancing ...
This is what 24 years of severe drought looks like in the world’s largest rainforest. But this patch of degraded forest ... Esecaflor — short for “Forest Drought Study Project” in Portuguese — set out ...
A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what ...