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Cost-benefit analysis exposes ‘bogus’ promises of palm oil riches for Papuans

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Oct 2024
Two workers sift through plastic waste collected for recycling.

Bangladesh’s new government implements strong measures to eliminate single-use plastic

Abu Siddique 2 Oct 2024

UK & Dutch banks invest $55 million in controversial Cerrado tree farms

Shanna Hanbury 2 Oct 2024

High CO2 levels are greening the world’s drylands, but is that good news?

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 1 Oct 2024
Rainfall over the Amazon river. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

The Amazon is ablaze again. What it means for us (commentary)

Mark J. Plotkin 30 Sep 2024

Brazil cracks down on illegal gold mining, sparking anger in the Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 27 Sep 2024

‘We need white men on our side to save the Amazon from destruction,’ 92-year-old Indigenous Chief Raoni says

Carla Ruas 26 Sep 2024

Carbon credit land grab dispossesses Global South communities: Report

Shanna Hanbury 26 Sep 2024

Why the Maxakali people are calling on their spirits to recover the Atlantic Forest

Xavier Bartaburu 25 Sep 2024

Meta to buy 3.9 million carbon credits from controversial tree plantations

Shanna Hanbury 25 Sep 2024
Shark and ray remains after their fins have been removed at Brondong Harbor, East Java.

Clock ticks on Indonesia shark skinners as predator population plunges

Asad Asnawi 25 Sep 2024

CHAPTER 6. Culture and demographics defines the Pan Amazon’s present

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Sep 2024
A vegetable grower using agroecological methods in Boung Phao Village, Lao PDR. Photo: Asian Development Bank, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Global ‘Slow Food’ movement embraces agroecology (commentary)

Edward Mukiibi 24 Sep 2024

A future where we might ‘get climate right’: A conversation with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Sep 2024
Why the EU must stand firm on its plan to help protect the world’s forests

US consumers may be exposed to deforestation-linked palm oil via dairy: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Sep 2024
Flooding in Thailand

Record-breaking floods in northern Thailand intensify scrutiny of Mekong dam project

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2024
A young girl in a pale pink dress, a bobble hat and smile, pushing a wheelbarrow with two large yellow water containers across a field at Kapsambu village, Mt Elgon, Kenya. Image courtesy Infonile.

New approach to land management in Africa aims to climate-proof ecosystems

Mactilda Mbenywe 23 Sep 2024
Mining activities threaten honey production in the Caatinga biome

Mining activities threaten honey production in the Caatinga biome

Rafael Martins 20 Sep 2024

World’s biggest deforestation project gets underway in Papua for sugarcane

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Sep 2024

What will the Brazilian food industry do about plastic packaging?

Ellen Nemitz 19 Sep 2024

Why the EU must stand firm on its plan to help protect the world’s forests (commentary)

Sam Lawson 19 Sep 2024

Brazil judge fines slaughterhouses for Amazon deforestation

Shanna Hanbury 18 Sep 2024
A group of young people in the forest in Kenema district, Sierra Leone. Image courtesy Sierra Leone Environment Matters.

Sierra Leone group helps farmers adapt to changing climate, protect forest

Emma Black 18 Sep 2024

Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024
A woman dressed in bright blue and a smile crouches in a cabbage field holding up a large head of cabbage. Image courtesy Suhucam.

In Cameroon, forest and water source restoration offers sustainable solutions

Yannick Kenné 16 Sep 2024
Java activists risk jail for exposing shrimp farm pollution crisis.

Java activists risk jail for exposing shrimp farm pollution crisis

Basten Gokkon, Nanang Sujana, Sandy Watt 16 Sep 2024

How the Brazilian military sabotaged protection of Indigenous people in the Amazon

André Schröder 16 Sep 2024
Commodities such as corn, cattle and soy are major drivers of deforestation yet receive heavy financing from banks. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Investors urge banks to cut commodity-driven deforestation

Shanna Hanbury 16 Sep 2024

Extreme drought pushes Amazon’s main rivers to lowest-ever levels

Fernanda Wenzel 11 Sep 2024
Women's cooperative farm in Dogba. Image by Leocadia Bongben for Mongabay.

How the Zai farming technique is transforming soil fertility in North Cameroon

Leocadia Bongben 11 Sep 2024

In Venezuela, natural regeneration helps restore a threatened cloud forest

María Fernanda Rodríguez 10 Sep 2024
CO2e emissions between 1850-2018 imposed over warming stripes graphic depicting annual mean global temperatures (1850-2018, from World Meteorological Organization data). Credit for general concept of warming stripes: climate scientist Ed Hawkins, University of Reading. Data values are visualized using color rather than locations of points on a graph. Horizontal scale is time, from 1850 (left) to 2018 (right). Data is global (not for a locality). This is an early, original chart from Dr. Hawkins, and should not be updated as the years pass. Update: newer versions of the warming stripes under more permissive CC‑BY‑4.0 licensing available here: showyourstripes.info Date 4 December 2018 Source Hawkins, Ed

Action at Scale: Elizabeth Yee on The Rockefeller Foundation’s Climate Strategy

Matthew Boyer, Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2024

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