Environment & Sustainability

The sale price of the 67 million-year-old fossil exceeded the previous record set by a stegosaurus in 2024.

Around the world, climate-sceptic parties are exploiting floods and fires to make political capital. Without urgent changes, this deadly spiral will continue Recent unprecedented heatwaves in the UK may have killed thousands of people. Children are suffering in overheating schools.…

President Donald Trump is sharply reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah. The move to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by about 90% unravels protections established by former presidents for areas with unique archaeological and…

His nephew recalled that the children were taught to chant, “Hyaenas are beautiful!” as often as possible.On visits to Kruger National Park, he got them out of bed at midnight to look for bushbabies and again at five in the…

Happy World Chimpanzee Day. On July 14, as the world celebrates one of humans’ closest living relatives, here’s a roundup of recent Mongabay stories about chimpanzees and their world: Chimps at war in Kibale National Park Chimpanzees, like humans, sometimes…

The global mining industry says more extraction of rare earth minerals is necessary to fight climate change. But a new report says conventional industries, AI and defense are driving much of the demand. By Katie Surma The global rush to…

The Soyuz spacecraft will carry Nasa astronaut Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina to the ISS for an eight-month mission.

At least 44 people died in early July from a heatwave that scorched large swathes of the US.

The dinosaur skeleton, which roamed the planet 67 million years ago, was sold by Sotheby’s in New York.

A helicopter flying in U.S. Air Force restricted space over Crater Island, Utah, carrying a basket of nine instruments during a series of tests (June 23-25, 2026) of a prototype of the camera system that will one day fly aboard…