By Blaise Kasereka Makuta Virunga is Africa’s first national park, created by Belgian royal decree in 1925. Named for the ...

Protected areas such as national parks, nature reserves and Indigenous lands are the foundation of biodiversity conservation.

Paleogeneticists, it turns out, find the small wildcat just as elusive as field biologists. Compared with other domesticated ...

By Kristine Sabillo Researchers have released new maps documenting the “Great Nile Migration,” the Earth’s largest-known land ...

A Liberian-flagged ship sank off Kochi, leaking oil and cargo. While the spill is contained, missing hazardous materials may ...

In this interview with Mongabay India, Andrés Alegría explains how Mongabay harnesses the power of maps and data visuals to give depth to our stories. Maps and data visualisations serve as a bridge ...

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one ...

Mennonites consult a map during a recent trip to Suriname. Photo courtesy of Adrián Barbero. Mongabay’s consistent coverage on Mennonite colonies and their history of contributing to widespread ...

A new map of the universe displays for the first time the span of the entire known cosmos with pinpoint accuracy and sweeping beauty. Created by Johns Hopkins University astronomers with data mined ...

Photo by John C. Cannon/Mongabay. Beginning in the early 2000s, 63 Penan communities came together to create 23 maps of their territory in the districts of Miri and Limbang in northern Sarawak ...

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change. SCIENCE VOL 342 15 NOVEMBER 2013. Mongabay covered this work at Powered by Google, high resolution forest map reveals massive ...