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Indigenous leader Alessandra Korap Munduruku confronted Anglo American over its attempts to mine on protected Indigenous land, leading the mining giant to withdraw its prospecting applications. Image courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Direct funding of Indigenous peoples can protect global rainforests & the climate (commentary)

Joe Eisen, Suzanne Pelletier, Tørris Jæger 24 Jan 2024

In PNG, researchers record 9 new species of predatory hermaphroditic land snails

Spoorthy Raman 24 Jan 2024

Kenyan villagers show how to harvest more octopus by fishing less

Diana Wanyonyi 24 Jan 2024

Ecuador-China free trade agreement poses serious environmental risks, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jan 2024

Mexico’s first black-and-white hawk-eagle nest is a treasure trove for researchers

Astrid Arellano 24 Jan 2024
Jasmine is commonly used to flavor tea and as an offering in devotional ceremonies.

Java’s crumbling coastline and rising tide swamp jasmine flower trade

Moh. Tamimi 24 Jan 2024
Farmers in Bihar, India, growing crops amidst solar panels.

We need a better understanding of how crops fare under solar panels, study shows

Ruth Kamnitzer 23 Jan 2024
Tracegrow, a Finnish company, uses recycled batteries and industrial waste to create agricultural fertilizers.

Lessons from Finland’s attempt to transition to a circular economy

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2024

In Mexico, Xalapa’s chronic water scarcity reflects a deepening national crisis

Amigzaday López Beltrán 23 Jan 2024

Indigenous women filmmakers form collective, using cameras to fight for rights

Matheus Lopes Quirino 23 Jan 2024
One of Global Green's new mining sites in Preah Vihear province that sits inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Sanctioned timber baron wins new mining concessions in Cambodia’s Prey Lang

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 23 Jan 2024
Vintage telephones by Pavan Trikutam via Unsplash.

The conservation sector must communicate better (commentary)

Tania Paschen 22 Jan 2024
A guina.

Conservationists aim to save South America’s super tiny wild cat, the guina

Petro Kotzé 22 Jan 2024
A farmer plucks moringa leaves.

Bangladeshi farmers eye moringa as a climate and economic solution

Abu Siddique 22 Jan 2024
Yuly Velásquez, an environmental defender from Barrancabermeja.

Courage & calm despite attacks: Q&A with Colombian activist Yuly Velásquez

Aimee Gabay 19 Jan 2024

How much carbon does ocean trawling put into the atmosphere?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Jan 2024

U.S. border wall threatens World Heritage status of Mexican reserve

Astrid Arellano 19 Jan 2024
If necessary, community people buy fish from the market to meet their protein demand, but they do not catch fish from springs.

Indigenous effort in Bangladesh helps reverse endangered fish’s slide to extinction

Rafiqul Islam 19 Jan 2024
Western hoolock gibbon. Image credit: Scott Trageser Photography/Creative Conservation Alliance.

Western hoolock gibbon conservation in Bangladesh urgently needs funding (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 18 Jan 2024
Researcher Guilherme Cabral

Why the Amazon’s small streams have a major impact on its grand rivers

18 Jan 2024
People holding wood pellets.

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

Justin Catanoso 18 Jan 2024

Agrarian reform agencies and national land registry systems in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 18 Jan 2024

Guyana Amerindian communities fear Venezuela’s move to annex oil-rich region

Aimee Gabay 17 Jan 2024

Markets and forests: 7 takeaways from our series on the forest carbon trade

John Cannon 17 Jan 2024

Outcry over deforestation as Suriname’s agriculture plans come to light

Maxwell Radwin 17 Jan 2024

The dynamics of violence in pursuit of land in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Jan 2024

Report shows loss of natural land cover in Ecuador — and where it can still be saved

Kimberley Brown 17 Jan 2024
Bangkok

Civil-backed proposal seeks to address root causes of Thailand’s choking haze

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jan 2024
An oceanic whitetip shark.

Global shark deaths increasing despite finning bans, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Jan 2024
Spix’s macaw

EU’s legal loophole feeds gray market for world’s rarest parrot

Brendan Borrell 17 Jan 2024
Chimpanzee

A rush for ‘green’ iron is on in Guinea. Will chimpanzees be a casualty?

Juliette Portala 17 Jan 2024
India’s new forest rules spark dismay — and hope: Q&A with activist Soumitra Ghosh

India’s new forest rules spark dismay — and hope: Q&A with activist Soumitra Ghosh

Niladry Sarkar 17 Jan 2024

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