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Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. When Saabira Chaudhuri began covering consumer goods companies for The Wall Street Journal, she expected stories about marketing and product launches. Instead, she…
At about 4,800 meters, or nearly 15,800 feet, above sea level, Cerro Rico towers over the city of Potosí, in Bolivia’s southern highlands. Famous for its vast silver reserves, Cerro Rico — whose name means “rich mountain” in Spanish —…
Green groups defend ‘essential’ levy, but Heck sausages and Gü desserts among those who say shoppers will pick up tab A packaging tax designed to end our throwaway society is under fire for inadvertently adding to food price inflation as…
In eight months the 2026 World Cup will make history as the biggest single sporting event – but not everyone is celebrating.
Several agency programs are trying to track and reduce methane emissions around the world. They aren’t meeting the targets fast enough.
Interviews with experts and key players across four countries reveal why efforts to stop the multibillion-euro trafficking industry have failed – and how to save the endangered fish By 10am on the midsummer Day of the Ox, the city of…
As deforestation and climate change threaten some of the country’s least-known pollinators, scientists join forces with Indigenous Asháninka communities to protect the insects and their new legal rights. By Teresa Tomassoni SATIPO, Peru—Dry leaves rustled beneath the hem of her…
The vertical towers allow for three times more capacity per acre than conventional solar panel arrays, according to the company, Janta Power. By Arcelia Martin DALLAS—Texas has more solar power than anywhere else in the U.S. But there’s plenty of…
The largest herds of caribou in the world make their homes here. Polar bears give birth to cubs in dens dug into this soil, some of them more than 200 years old. And birds like the Arctic tern fly north every…
The United Nations has opened up a new round of funding to support Indigenous peoples to attend two major convenings in New York City and Geneva next year. The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, or UNPFII, happens every…