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Bill McKibben and Trebbe Johnson on action and ‘radical joy’ after COP26 climate summit failure

Mike Gaworecki 23 Nov 2021

Questions over who gets the billions pledged to Indigenous causes at COP26

Latoya Abulu 23 Nov 2021

At a ‘certified’ palm oil plantation in Nigeria, soldiers and conflict over land

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Nov 2021

Indigenous people get less than 1% of climate funding? It’s actually worse (commentary)

Torbjørn Gjefsen 19 Nov 2021

Outcry in Sri Lanka as suspected elephant kidnappers get to keep the animals

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Nov 2021

For Kenyan farmers, organic fertilizer bokashi brings the land back to life

Isaiah Esipisu 16 Nov 2021

In rural Nigeria, the magic of cinema builds support for ape conservation

Orji Sunday 15 Nov 2021

‘Standing with your feet in the water’: COP26 struggles to succeed

Justin Catanoso 12 Nov 2021

Climate change means hunger in our communities, African women leaders at COP26

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Nov 2021

Legal challenge to South Africa mine expansion looks to set new landmark

Victoria Schneider 12 Nov 2021

COP26: Are climate declarations and emission reduction pledges legally binding?

Justin Catanoso 11 Nov 2021

Top Brazil gold exporter leaves a trail of criminal probes and illegal mines

Guilherme Henrique, Ana Magalhães for Repórter Brasil 10 Nov 2021

Struggle endures for Philippine community pitted against gold miner

Karlston Lapniten 9 Nov 2021

In China, agroforestry serves up tea with a spoonful of sustainability

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Nov 2021
1/11/2021. Glasgow, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomes Joe Biden, the President of the United States of America to the COP26 summit. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

Behind grand declarations at COP26, a long track record of failure

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Nov 2021

WWF distances itself from rights abuses at U.S. congressional hearing

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 2 Nov 2021

COP-26: Amazonia’s Indigenous peoples are vital to fighting global warming (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 2 Nov 2021

Hundreds of NGOs sign open letter calling to halt “illegal activities” in DRC’s protected areas

Soraya Kishtwari 30 Oct 2021

From flood to drought, Brazil’s Acre state swings between weather extremes

Leandro Chaves, Juliana Ennes 29 Oct 2021

Indonesian farmers resisting an iron mine run up against a sultan

Arif Koes Hernawan, Cahyo Purnomo Edi, Lusia Arumingtyas, Mariyana Ricky PD, Soetana Monang Hasibuan 28 Oct 2021

Indigenous guides warn of repercussions if we don’t fix our relationship with nature

Tracy L. Barnett; Hernán Vilchez 28 Oct 2021
AFIEGO staff with two supporters after their release from jail. Image courtesy AFIEGO.

Ugandan activists’ arrest slammed as threat to space for rights defenders

Terna Gyuse 28 Oct 2021
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say

Basten Gokkon 28 Oct 2021

NGOs say FSC label offers little protection for forests, Indigenous people

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Oct 2021

Indigenous group faces eviction for ‘New Bali’ tourism project in Sumatra

Tonggo Simangunsong 25 Oct 2021
Protest against Tendele, 2018. Image by Rob Symon via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Opposition to South Africa coal mine persists a year after murder of activist

Victoria Schneider 22 Oct 2021
Sea turtle swimming under sunset.

Half-Earth, conservation, and hope: An interview with E.O. Wilson, Paula Ehrlich and Sir Tim Smit    

Liz Kimbrough 20 Oct 2021
Tense and Mulunesh, members of the women-led Nano Hena savings and credit cooperative, pick coffee beans during harvesting season in Illubabor Zone, Ethiopia. The cooperative is supported by Population, Health, and Environment Ethiopia Consortium and Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association, partners working to improve biodiversity and increase resilience in communities in Southwestern Ethiopia. Photo credit: Maheder Haileselassie, Getty Images

Supporting more holistic approaches to conservation: an interview with Kai Carter

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Oct 2021

Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Basten Gokkon 20 Oct 2021

Math campus multiplies threats to Rio de Janeiro’s dwindling Atlantic Forest

Sarah Brown 15 Oct 2021

Malaysia’s Indigenous Penan block roads to stop logging in Borneo

Rachel Donald 14 Oct 2021
The forests of the Torricelli Mountain Range. Image courtesy of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance.

Deforestation threatens tree kangaroo habitat in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021

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