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Palm oil farmers in Central Kalimantan.

Indonesia raises concerns over EU deforestation law’s impact on smallholders

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Apr 2025
Amapá state is home to six of the Amazon's tallest known trees, including an 85-meter (279-foot) red angelim threatened by illegal gold mining. Image courtesy of Havita Rigamonti/Imazon/Ideflor-Bi.

Illegal gold mining creeps within a kilometer of Amazon’s second-tallest tree

Fernanda Wenzel 14 Apr 2025
floods

Honduras pays the climate cost as its forests disappear and storms rise

Mie Hoejris Dahl 9 Apr 2025
Restoration projects have been developed in large Amazon properties with high investments and intensive use of machinery. Image courtesy of Mombak/Raimundo Paccó.

For scandal-ridden carbon credit industry, Amazon restoration offers redemption

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Apr 2025
Susana Muhamad interacts with an Indigenous representative.

Colombia’s green transition should be inclusive: Interview with Susana Muhamad, former environment minister

Mie Hoejris Dahl 8 Apr 2025

Palm oil company uses armed forces, tear gas against protesting villagers in Cameroon

Victoria Schneider, Yannick Kenné 4 Apr 2025
Euperfadis Cardenas Vargas in his finca (2 hectarias of Cacao) Photo © Victor Raison

Colombian farmers switch from coffee to cacao as temperature and prices soar

Victor Raison 4 Apr 2025
Roots and nodules of a lab-grown yam plant. Image courtesy of Asrat Amele / IITA.

Farmers turn to living ‘yam sticks’ to grow their crop and spare the forest

Mark Hillsdon 3 Apr 2025
Munduruku Indigenous People blocked a road on March 25, protesting against the conciliation table at the Supreme Court and for the repeal of law 14.701. Image courtesy of the Pariri Association.

After outcry, Brazil Supreme Court nixes proposal for mining on Indigenous lands

Karla Mendes 3 Apr 2025

Uttarakhand’s extreme weather wreaks havoc on crops, livelihoods & futures

Swati Thapa 3 Apr 2025
irrigation field

Groundwater overuse puts Brazil’s river flow at risk, study finds

Sarah Brown 3 Apr 2025
One of approximately 200 kipunji monkeys in the Udzungwa Mountains. Image courtesy Anthony Jarrett.

New strategy launched to protect Tanzanian biodiversity hotspot

Ryan Truscott 2 Apr 2025
Bernardo Vallejo inspects in Finca Las Brisas. Image © Victor Raison.

Colombia’s coffee farmers try to balance innovation and tradition to adapt to climate change

Victor Raison 1 Apr 2025
Harvested American ginseng.

As US agroforestry grows, federal funding freeze leaves farmers in the lurch

Sarah Derouin 1 Apr 2025

A Kichwa women’s collective uses ecotourism to safeguard Ecuador’s Amazon

Ana Cristina Alvarado 1 Apr 2025

UK delays to environment law have led to massive deforestation, report says

Maxwell Radwin 31 Mar 2025
China's megaproject Chancay Port on Peru's Pacific coast, inaugurated by President Xi Jinping, is a key hub for the Belt and Road Initiative and future trade with South America, including Brazil's Amazon exports. Image courtesy of Peru’s Presidential Office (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Brazil plans new Amazon routes linking the Pacific & China’s New Silk Road

Fabio Zuker 31 Mar 2025
Construction of the first section of the motorway. Image courtesy of Corrine Rahoeliarisoa.

Madagascar highway pushes on through controversy

Rivonala Razafison 31 Mar 2025
Using renewable energy solutions like solar to power irrigation and other processes along the agriculture value chain is helping countries in the region to lower production costs by avoiding high operations and maintenance costs associated with diesel-powered generators like here in Rwamagana, a district from Eastern Rwanda. The World Resources Institute (WRI)is currently supporting initiatives that integrate renewable energy into agricultural value chains in Africa. Image by Aimable Twahirwa.

Smallholder agriculture blossoming with the use of renewables in Africa

Aimable Twahirwa 31 Mar 2025
Beekeepers monitoring hive boxes at Kazirhat, Shariatpur.

Indiscriminate pesticide use threatens Bangladesh honeybees

Sadiqur Rahman 27 Mar 2025
In Tishimale Village, Konso, Belachew and 147 other farmers use flood farming techniques to grow crops three times a year. Without these methods to adapt to the drought and the shortage of rain, it would be impossible to grow sustainably in this dry region. Image by Solomon Yimer.

Photos: Ethiopian farmers blend tradition, innovation to sustain centuries-old agriculture

Solomon Yimer 25 Mar 2025
A young orangutan grasps and hangs on to a woody liana.

As apes adapt to human disturbance, their new behaviors also put them at risk: Study

Charles Mpaka 24 Mar 2025
Women living near the Socapalm plantation in Edéa take part in a demonstration against replanting in January 2025. Image courtesy of Félicité Ngo Bissou/AFRISE.

New allegations of abuse against oil palm giant Socfin in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 24 Mar 2025

Uncontacted Ayoreo could face health risks as Gran Chaco shrinks, experts warn

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2025
A ceremonial glacier graveyard in Iceland.

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025

‘Sustainable’ palm oil firms continue illegal peatland clearing despite permit revocation

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Mar 2025
In a vibrant green forestscape, a man in a blue t-shirt and gumboots stretches his arms across the dark bole of an enormous, extravagantly buttressed tree.. Image courtesy Andrea Bianchi.

‘3,000 year-old’ trees in Tanzania are new species

Ryan Truscott 20 Mar 2025
Pataxó and Tupinambá people rally against the time frame (marco temporal) law on March 13, 2025, in front of the Brazilian Supreme Court in Brasília. Image courtesy of CIMI.

‘Unprecedented’ Supreme Court bill threatens Indigenous rights in Brazil

Karla Mendes 19 Mar 2025
Logging operation for timber Brazilian Amazon.

EUDR compliance costs to be minimal, report finds — but industry disagrees

John Cannon 18 Mar 2025
Amazon people in the BR-163 area, such as Mariana, face challenges from the economic model imposed by agribusiness, logging and gold mining. Image by Fernando Martinho.

The rough road to sustainable farming in an Amazon deforestation hotspot

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Mar 2025

In a land where monkeys are seen as pests, Sri Lanka’s white langurs are winning hearts

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Mar 2025
Aerial photograph of land being cleared for a nickel mine in North Morowali.

Indonesian watchdog demands prosecution for environmental crime ‘cartels’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2025

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