In Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, Paul Raad crouched in the undergrowth, scanning the ground for ...

The Amazon Rainforest, where next year’s COP30 climate summit will be hosted, is reeling from two consecutive years of severe drought, with major rivers at record lows, leading to water shortages and ...

Acting on a tip from a village informant, Fabian met a colleague at the edge of the spiny forest reserve just after nightfall ...

As 2025 dawns, here is a look at some of the storylines that could shape the fate of tropical forests this year. More reading ...

On a warm but overcast afternoon, hundreds of Indigenous representatives and spiritual leaders gathered to witness a ...

COP climate summit so dismal that many governments and analysts questioned whether the annual meetings are even worth holding ...

In 2022, the world agreed at a U.N. biodiversity summit to protect 30% of Earth’s land and water by 2030. While protected areas already account for almost 15% of the planet’s land, protection for the ...

Conservationists searching for Vietnam’s critically endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkey, one of the world’s most threatened ...

A giant anaconda, a vampire hedgehog, a dwarf squirrel, and a tiger cat were among the new species named by science in 2024.

Martin Cheek first entered the Boyboyba Forest in southeastern Guinea in September 2022 to look for an extremely rare plant ...

Gabriel Andriamanjaka holds the radiotracking aerial aloft and marches into a spiky forest thicket. Branches whip around his ...

As the first light pierced through storm clouds, swollen rivers spilled over their banks, sweeping through villages across ...