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A Charonias theano butterfly

Trouble in the tropics: The terrestrial insects of Brazil are in decline

Jeremy Hance 5 Oct 2022

Drawing the wrong lessons from Sri Lanka’s organic farming experience (commentary)

Nethmi S. Perera Bathige, William G. Moseley 12 Aug 2022

Analysis: Pesticides are creating a biodiversity crisis in Europe

Juliet Ferguson - Investigate Europe 11 Aug 2022
Farmers work at a paddy field in Nepal.

Lack of timely rains, fertilizer hits rice farmers in Nepal’s granary

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Aug 2022

Farmer-to-farmer agroecology: Q&A with Chukki Nanjundaswamy of Amrita Bhoomi Learning Centre

Anna Lappé 3 Aug 2022
CNES and Airbus satellite image of Petrolandia, Pernambuco, Brazil

From agribusiness to oil to nuclear power and submarines: welcome to anti-environmental Putin-Bolsonaro alliance (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 1 Aug 2022
Monarch butterfly feeding on non-native bull thistle at the Metropolitan Beach Metropark Nature Area, Clinton, MI. Image by Steve Burt via Creative Commons 2.0 license.

Is invasive species management doing more harm than good? (commentary)

Janae Malpas 14 Jul 2022
Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis).

Study assesses wildlife exposure to rat poison on oil palm plantations

Sean Mowbray 13 Jul 2022
A huge swarm of locusts devours corn

High tech early warning system could curb next South African locust swarms

Anna Weekes 29 Jun 2022
Farmer Elizabeth Kamphale explains the agroecology methods she uses to farm orange maize in the village of Kamala in Malawi's Dedza district.

A return to agroecology traditions points the way forward for Malawi’s farmers

Charles Mpaka 3 Jun 2022
Residents of the Mura Indigenous village of Murutinga, in Brazil’s Amazonas state, take over a boat belonging to employees of the electricity company, who have come to cut off the community's energy supplies. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Push for potash mine in Brazil’s Amazon looms over Indigenous people

Ana Ionova 27 May 2022
The spotted tody-flycatcher, native to South America and the Caribbean, hunts insects alone or in pairs, and is well-adapted to humans, happy in forest or overgrown pasture. Image courtesy of Alexander Lees.

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies

Sharon Guynup 23 May 2022

Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns

Sean Mowbray 2 May 2022

For a beekeeping couple in Costa Rica, pesticides are killing the buzz

Monica Pelliccia 1 Apr 2022

In Indonesia’s Spice Islands, some farmers are going back to organic

Mahmud Ichi 24 Mar 2022

Brazil agrochemical bill nears passage in Bolsonaro’s ‘agenda of death’

Sarah Brown 18 Feb 2022

In Nepal, a messy breakup with hybrid seeds is good news for organic farming

Johan Augustin 18 Feb 2022

Air pollution makes it tough for pollinators to stop and smell the flowers

Liz Kimbrough 10 Feb 2022

Polluting with impunity: Palm oil companies flout regulations in Ecuador

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022

Community in Ecuador punished for trying to stop alleged palm oil pollution

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022
NASA Landsat satellite image showing the Amazonian region where the activity occurred, according to IBAMA.

Chemical defoliants sprayed on Amazon rainforest to facilitate deforestation in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 19 Jan 2022

More trees means healthier bees, new study on air pollution shows

Luís Patriani 3 Jan 2022

The complete guide to restoring your soil: Q&A with soil expert Dale Strickler

Liz Kimbrough 29 Nov 2021

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

Isaiah Esipisu 16 Nov 2021

For Indonesian farmers used to ‘instant’ results, going organic is a tough sell

Wahyu Chandra 2 Nov 2021

Poisoned city: The story of Brazil’s forgotten environmental disaster

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 26 Oct 2021

Paraguay failed to stop soy farms from poisoning Indigenous land, UN says

Maxwell Radwin 21 Oct 2021

Novel chemical entities: Are we sleepwalking through a planetary boundary?

Claire Asher 23 Sep 2021
A farmer uses a manure spreader as a natural fertilizer. An excess of manure from livestock produces an excess of ammonia, a harmful nitrogen emission. Image by CityofGeneva via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Nitrogen: The environmental crisis you haven’t heard of yet

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Sep 2021

In Kenya, push-pull method tries to debug organic farming’s pest problem

David Njagi 8 Sep 2021
UPL chemical warehouse on fire outside Durban, South Africa. Image by Sbonelo Dlamini.

Nature takes a beating after chemical explosion in South Africa civil unrest

Tony Carnie 23 Aug 2021

Swarm technology: Researchers experiment with drones to battle crop pests

Ashley Stumvoll 13 Aug 2021

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