A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the ...

Exxon, Chevron, and others are increasingly eyeing South America for low-cost, low-emission production as shale basins mature ...

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has issued a historic ruling, finding in favor of Indigenous leaders who say their ...

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

Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro said Monday during his weekly broadcast show that, with Colombia's help, his country had ...

In early February, in downtown Bogotá, Colombia, Luis Alfredo Acosta recited a line in a book from memory: “I am from the ...

The Amazon rainforest is teeming with biodiversity, and among its most captivating features are the birds. The biodiversity, colors, and behaviors have captured the imagination of birdwatchers and ...

Colombia’s labor unions and an array of social organizations announced a 48-hour national strike seeking congressional support for the main reform proposals of President Gustavo Petro. The strike will ...

Darío Silva Cubeo, a delegate of the Amazon Regional Roundtable for the Amazonas department of Colombia, told Mongabay a “very serious concern” in Colombia is that despite having a decree to ...

Here we present a list of 224 species derived from the examination of specimens collected in the Mitú region (Vaupés Department, Colombia), the middle basin of the río Vaupés. Of the species ...

Deforestation in Colombia’s Amazonas Department – credit: Lowfill Tarmak, via Flickr. Looking at the number of deforested acres in Colombia, the outgoing environment minister says 2024 will be ...

BOGOTA - Deforestation in Colombia in 2024 is expected to have reached a higher level than during the previous year but is still forecast to be among the lowest levels in more than two decades ...