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

When considering a visit to Africa, few people think of Gabon. Exactly, this is the advantage of one of the most beautiful, ...

Photographing them was a thrilling experience that brought me in contact with plants that most of us know nothing about but ...

Since the first scientific critiques of fossil fuels, oil companies have gone from being the “wealth of nations” to ...

Now, the world’s first nuclear influencer is coming out with a book.

Peru draws tourists eager to explore the remnants of South America’s ancient civilisations. There’s much to uncover in this ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Hundreds of monkeys can now safely cross roads in Alta Floresta, a city in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Seven canopy ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

As recently announced, initial proof-of-concept results from this ongoing investigator-initiated trial (IIT) show crofelemer ...