New Future

Encouraged by the enthusiastic response from the people of Bengaluru to its initiative of enabling farmers to sell directly to consumers, the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha has decided to organize such markets every fortnight.

Last month’s gathering of pronatalists in Austin, Texas, revealed a right-wing milieu riven by internal contradictions — and without a plausible plan to significantly increase birth rates.

Jacobin sat down with legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone to talk about his recent testimony before Congress on the JFK assassination, the CIA’s continued stonewalling, and why we’re closer than ever to finally piecing together the mystery of November 22, 1963.

Dorgham Qreaiqea led film, theater, and painting projects with a belief in art's power to transcend the war. An Israeli airstrike killed him.

A look at recent bottom-up efforts to win endorsements for Bernie Sanders and mobilize trade unionists against Donald Trump offer insights into how the labor movement can better and more democratically engage its members in politics.

What will we eat in the future—and who gets to decide? From lab-grown meat to agroecology, the politics of food in Africa are being shaped by tech dreams, corporate agendas, and grassroots resistance.

Labour’s swingeing cuts to benefits continue a long tradition of equating human worth with participation in paid employment — an unnecessary, immoral, counterproductive way to run a society.

“The Gathering” in Sri Lanka’s Minneriya National Park is said to be among the world’s most spectacular wildlife phenomena. Every year, hundreds of elephants gather on a dry lakebed in the park that becomes fertile grazing land during the months of June through August.

Succulents endemic to South Africa and Namibia are drying up and dying across the increasingly hot northern part of their range. Mongabay contributor Leonie Joubert reports that a combination of climate change and overgrazing are causing desertification that the plants can’t survive.

KPL News also highlights the timing of the RDA’s decision: it came just five days before South Korea’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy visited the U. S. (March 26–28) to meet with the U. S. Secretary of Commerce. This has fueled speculation that the government is preemptively dismantling non-tariff barriers under U. S. pressure.

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For Ochieng’ Ogodo, science was never a subject to be sequestered in ivory towers. It belonged in the hands of the people—decoded, demystified, and, above all, delivered with clarity and conviction.

Trump’s zigzags on tariffs could undermine his credibility in an escalating trade war with China, which threatens to violently “decouple” the two economies.

In the waters surrounding Fiji, an ancient tradition endures. Indigenous (iTaukei) communities have long established designated both freshwater and marine ecosystems where fishing and harvesting are temporarily forbidden in honor of their deceased.

Read the exposé "Beneath the Badge: Corruption and Administrative Abuse Within Cook County Jail" from a whistleblowing corrections officer.

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the sudden passing of Ochieng’ Ogodo, Mongabay’s East Africa Editor, who died early Thursday morning in Nairobi, Kenya, at the age of 64. According to his family, Ochieng experienced sudden and severe chest pain around 2: 00 a. m.

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This week, ICE snatched an immigrant seafood worker in Massachusetts at an employer whose workers have engaged in nationally celebrated collective action for years — the kind of collective action that, on a mass scale, would be a major threat to Trump.

The Trump administration has made much of Harvard’s supposed failure to address antisemitism in the wake of campus protests against the genocide in Gaza, but the attacks on the university have less to do with “civil liberties” than consolidating power and punishing critics.

This is the first of a three-part series on underreported issues involving Canadian mining companies and Indigenous peoples or local communities. Read part one here. Shrouded in the lush vegetation of the páramo, the Andean tundra landscape, the quiet wetlands and moorlands of Quimsacocha in southern Ecuador are at the center of a dispute.

On Wednesday, Alejandro Vilca, a socialist deputy with the PTS, was tear-gassed during a weekly pensioners protest in Argentina. He offers a powerful example of socialists’ role in electoral politics.