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The "Great Dying" was just as bad as it sounds. In the planet's worst mass extinction 252 million years ago, up to 80 percent of all species died out, including up to 96 percent of ocean species. Trilobites, sea scorpions, and spiny sharks disappeare ...

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HONDURAS - While many people from Atlantida, Honduras, are attempting to escape desperate poverty and deepening political violence by traveling some 3,000 miles to reach the border of the U.S., a few years back, Julia* left Atlantida heading just around 100 mil ...

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BRAZIL - Dototacakire, known as Doto, spoke passionately to Mongabay about his opposition to Grainrail (Ferrograo). He is a leader of the Kayapo people from the Bau Indigenous Territory on the banks of the Iriri River in southern Para state, Brazil deep in th ...

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CHINA - Drug-sniffing dogs are an accepted part of our modern world. In the near future, could pollution-sniffing mosses be equally common? ...

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VIETNAM - An agreement on legally-sourced timber imports from Vietnam to the EU that was finally signed in October is now being held up against the reality on the ground in the Southeast Asian country. ...

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EGYPT - At least 10 more percent of land than what is currently being used to grow green crops will be required to successfully replace fossil fuels with alternatives derived from natural sources such as biofuel, biodiversity conservationists have revealed. ...

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Many San Francisco parents were grateful for the rain last week and the opportunity to let their kids out to play in the mud and splash in puddles. Keeping children inside to avoid breathing smoky air for so long was difficult, even with boxes of pla ...

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The first thing a tree like the shihuahuaco inspires is respect. It takes it at least 1,000 years to reach its full-grown height of 40 meters (130 feet) and diameter of 1.5 meters about 5 feet). During that millennium, it's had to compete for nutrien ...

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KENYA - Naisimari Lentula, 80 years old, strolls carefully along a narrow footpath through the forest. Suddenly, she stops, her eyes fixed on several aromatic shrubs with bluish flowers that are tumbled over near the path. "This is the work of encroachers," ...

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BRAZIL - Large hydroelectric dams are not worth the environmental and societal costs, and their benefits will continue to dwindle further as the climate changes, analysts argue. ...