Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Indonesia is defying the global trend in tropical deforestation.

The decision to build a 10-megawatt solar plant on a Massachusetts farm ignited opposition from neighbors. It shows how difficult the transition to clean energy will be. NORTHFIELD, Mass. — When the L ...

About midway through Derek Thompson’s and Ezra Klein’s viral manifesto, Abundance, glares a line that calls back repeatedly, like a spell, through example after example of American business and ...

A condo complex in south Florida partly collapsed out of nowhere Thursday morning. At time of writing, at least four people are confirmed dead and 159 others are still missing — making it likely one ...

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rasidi Adewolu Ladoja, has declared that land grabbing is the major problem facing residents and indigenes of the ancient city. Ladoja, a former governor of Oyo State, ...