Leaders of $100 million effort will use automated detection methods and computer models to monitor species’ trends

Celebrating Amazonian fish biodiversity and its vital relationship with people and rivers.

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Throughout the Amazon Rainforest, forest fragmentation represents an escalating and existential threat to the preservation of fauna. Driven by intensive economic development, the expansion of agribusi...

As mysterious bird declines crop up in the Amazon and beyond, scientists suspect climate change may be to blame

An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations

One of President Trump’s first executive orders withdraws the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement. These graphics show why the pact is crucial to curbing the worst effects of global warming

Fish communities in the Peruvian Amazon floodplain experience strong seasonal and interannual variability driven by annual flood pulses. To examine how these dynamics influence local assemblages, Morp...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For most of Peru’s scientific history, Indigenous knowledge has exis...

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The Amazon biome, stretching over a vast area across nine countries in northern South America, is renowned for its extreme diversity (biological and cultural) and its abundant water resources. Indeed,...

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is the main cause of reduced rainfall. Observations from 35 years of Amazon research show the impact of global climate change and local deforestation on the rain...

By Rosanna Ruiz, EdD, Morpho Institute, Board President Unlearning to Learn: How Awe Clears the Way for Deeper Learning What if one of the most powerful tools in education isn’t…

Scott Loarie has a challenge for you: go outside and take a picture of a living thing. He introduces the global community of people building a living atlas of the natural world by sharing their nature...

Tropical forests help regulate the global climate, host irreplaceable biodiversity and provide fresh water resources. Plus forests in general are the source of livelihoods for more than a billion peop...

If tropical rainforests are the lungs of the Earth, then 2024 was a year of respiratory failure. Fires, fueled by climate extremes and human recklessness, tore through vast stretches of forest at an u...

Two months after launch, Europe’s Biomass satellite has returned its first images—and they’re already revealing hidden secrets beneath some of the world’s most impenetrable forests. The spacecraft’s a...

Climate change threatens Amazon rainforest birds, with harsher dry seasons significantly affecting their survival over 27 years.