Justin Catanoso

Justin Catanoso

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Justin Catanoso is a professor of journalism at Wake Forest University and was that program's director from 2011-2016.

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Cityscape of Seattle, U.S., with trees in the foreground.

Cities are climate solution leaders: Interview with Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson

Justin Catanoso 22 Nov 2024
COP29 entry at Baku.

COP29: With public climate finance shortfall, is investment capital a way forward?

Justin Catanoso 11 Nov 2024

U.S. policy experts confident of future climate action despite Trump election

Justin Catanoso 8 Nov 2024
The motto of COP16, the U.N. biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, was “Paz con la Naturaleza” — “Peace with Nature.”

COP16 biodiversity meeting recap: Progress made, but finance lags

Justin Catanoso 4 Nov 2024

COP16: ‘A fund unlike any other’ will pay tropical nations to save forests

Justin Catanoso 30 Oct 2024
Drax is the largest consumer of wood pellets for energy in the UK.

Action against forest biomass subsidies gains momentum at COP16

Justin Catanoso 29 Oct 2024

Global biodiversity financiers strategize at COP16 to end ‘perverse subsidies’

Justin Catanoso 28 Oct 2024
Greater Greener Gloster community members stand in front of the state capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, as they demand the cleanup of the Drax pellet mill

New survey puts human face on pollution caused by U.S. wood pellet mills

Justin Catanoso 24 Oct 2024
A deforestated site in Edenton, North Carolina.

Delay of EU Deforestation Regulation may ‘be excuse to gut law,’ activists fear

Justin Catanoso 17 Oct 2024
Fire in an area newly deforested in Brazil.

Forest degradation releases 5 times more Amazon carbon than deforestation: Study

Justin Catanoso 9 Aug 2024

UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants

Justin Catanoso 6 May 2024
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Enviva bankruptcy fallout ripples through biomass industry, U.S. and EU

Justin Catanoso 2 Apr 2024
Small-scale illegal gold mining is widespread throughout much of the Peruvian Amazon, but especially in Madre de Dios, causing enormous harm to the environment and human population in what's recognized as a biodiversity hotspot.

Amazon prosecutors get sharper impact tool to charge illegal gold dealers

Justin Catanoso 27 Mar 2024
This photo of logged old-growth forest outside Olympia National Park, shows what can happen when mature forests aren’t given full protection.

Forest and climate scientists fear Biden delay on mature forest protection

Justin Catanoso 5 Mar 2024
People holding wood pellets.

Study: Burning wood pellets for energy endangers local communities’ health

Justin Catanoso 18 Jan 2024
An excavator at a coal mine.

COP28 ‘breakthrough’ elevates litigation as vital route to climate action

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2023
Aerial view showing a massive ring of thousands of whole trees at Enviva’s Sampson County, North Carolina

Enviva, the world’s largest biomass energy company, is near collapse

Justin Catanoso 20 Nov 2023
An anonymous pipeline-affected person in Tanzania, January 2022.

Disturbing graves is latest violation attributed to East African oil pipeline

Justin Catanoso 14 Nov 2023
Pope Francis has inspired people the world over.

Ahead of COP28, pope spurs policymakers, faith leaders to push climate action

Justin Catanoso 30 Oct 2023

Pope Francis condemns world leaders for deeply flawed UN climate process

Justin Catanoso 5 Oct 2023
An Andean motmot.

‘What we need to protect and why’: 20-year Amazon research hints at fate of tropics

Justin Catanoso 24 Jul 2023
Logging operation in the Amazon.

Timber harvests to meet global wood demand will bring soaring emissions: Study

Justin Catanoso 10 Jul 2023
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Financial downturn at Enviva could mean trouble for biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 25 May 2023
Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist with Oregon-based NGO Wild Heritage walks on a trail.

The U.S. has cataloged its forests. Now comes the hard part: Protecting them

Justin Catanoso 27 Apr 2023
Logged trees for biomass in Bischofsheim, Germany.

EU woody biomass final policy continues threatening forests and climate: Critics

Justin Catanoso 3 Apr 2023
Sentinel-2A lift off.

France seeks EU okay to fund biomass plants, burn Amazon forest to power Spaceport

Justin Catanoso 23 Feb 2023

The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all

Justin Catanoso 24 Jan 2023
Wood chips piled in mounds more than 6 meters (20 feet) high cover the lot of the Enviva wood pellet plant in Ahoskie, North Carolina. Enviva says that it uses wood waste to produce pellets. The whistleblower and Mongabay’s on site investigation at a North Carolina clear-cut site and at the Ahoskie plant provided evidence to the contrary. Image by Justin Catanoso for Mongabay.

The Netherlands to stop paying subsidies to ‘untruthful’ biomass firms

Justin Catanoso 23 Dec 2022

Australia rejects forest biomass in first blow to wood pellet industry

Justin Catanoso 21 Dec 2022

As EU finalizes renewable energy plan, forest advocates condemn biomass

Justin Catanoso 7 Dec 2022
A deforestated site in Edenton, North Carolina.

Whistleblower: Enviva claim of ‘being good for the planet… all nonsense’

Justin Catanoso 5 Dec 2022
This photo of logged old-growth forest outside Olympia National Park, shows what can happen when mature forests aren’t given full protection.

New study identifies mature forests on U.S. federal lands ripe for protection

Justin Catanoso 4 Oct 2022

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