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An excavator being used to dredge a river in Brahmanbaria, eastern Bangladesh.

River dredging in Bangladesh: Investigation shows government claims don’t add up

Abu Siddique, Farhana Parvin, Mahadi Al Hasnat, Rafiqul Islam 24 Dec 2024
YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024

Brazil’s shipping channel plans in Amazonian rivers will worsen climate change, experts warn

Tiffany Higgins 23 Dec 2024
An elephant with her mahout at the project

The 10 Indigenous news stories that marked 2024

Latoya Abulu 23 Dec 2024
On Dec. 4, 2024, Brazilian President Lula signed the homologation of three Indigenous territories, bringing to 13 that he’s demarcated since taking office in January 2023. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Office of the Brazilian Presidency.

Brazil’s Lula approves 13 Indigenous lands after much delay, promises more to come

Fernanda Wenzel 23 Dec 2024

‘Time is water’: A cross-border Indigenous alliance works to save the Amazon

Francesc Badia i Dalmases 23 Dec 2024
Conservationist Wayan Wardika in the farm.

A Bali farm lights up the night with a one-of-a-kind firefly lab

Claire Turrell 23 Dec 2024

Experts question benefits of Colombian forestation project led by top oil trader

Carla Ruas 23 Dec 2024

The state of carbon markets in 2024

John Cannon 23 Dec 2024

Brazil’s big push for tropical forest funding gets support for 2025 debut

Jenny Gonzales 23 Dec 2024

Nepal’s forest-protecting communities may miss out on World Bank carbon funds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Dec 2024

A universal tagging system for pangolins, world’s most trafficked mammal

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Dec 2024

Across continents, Mongabay fellows share insights from reporting in the field

Michael Esquer, Swati Thapa, Tarinipre Francis 23 Dec 2024

The fuel that moves people: the Ecuadorian case

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Dec 2024

Brazil’s illegal gold miners carve out new Amazon hotspots in conservation units

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Dec 2024

Amazon’s Boiling River gives scientists a window into the rainforest’s future

Liz Kimbrough 20 Dec 2024
The world’s oceans naturally absorb vast amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Electrochemical removal of ocean CO2 offers potential — and concerns

Sean Mowbray 20 Dec 2024
The Hadong power plant in South Korea co-fires coal with woody biomass, allowing it to claim it is reducing emissions under the UN loophole.

South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform

Annelise Giseburt 20 Dec 2024

Coral destruction for toilet construction: Interview with a Malagasy fisher

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 20 Dec 2024
Bright red flowers of a miracle clivia (Clivia mirabilis), hang in front of green foliage. Image courtesy Dave Garriock.

Poachers target South Africa’s ‘miracle’ plant with near impunity

Leonie Joubert 20 Dec 2024

As lithium mining bleeds Atacama salt flat dry, Indigenous communities hit back

Barinia Montoya 20 Dec 2024
The Dayak Pitap community lives dependent on nature.

Indonesia’s Indigenous communities sidelined from conservation

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Dec 2024
Residents from Gwadar look on the sipping development at the coast.

Balochistan’s Gwadar city sits at the crossroads of climate and conflict

Waqas Alam Angaria 20 Dec 2024
Members of the Nadupoi Women Group gather for a group photo in Olooloitikosh village, Kajiado, Kenya. Image by Juliet Ojwang for Mongabay.

From Bhutan to Nigeria & Kenya, women endure climate change differently than men

Choki Wangmo, Juliet Akoth Ojwang, Karen Coates, Tarinipre Francis 20 Dec 2024
Catherine Toro

For ecological restoration, evidence-based standards deliver better outcomes (commentary)

Karma Bouazza, Bethanie Walder 20 Dec 2024

Unlike: Brazil Facebook groups give poachers safe space to flex their kills

Adele Santelli 19 Dec 2024

‘Killed while poaching’: When wildlife enforcement blurs into violence

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Dec 2024
Wampis children in the shallows of a river. Image by Jacob Balzani.

Most large banks failing to consider Indigenous rights

Aimee Gabay 19 Dec 2024

New frog species show how geology shapes Amazon’s biodiversity

Sibélia Zanon 19 Dec 2024

Even for ‘progressive’ Danone, complying with EUDR is a challenge

Maxwell Radwin 19 Dec 2024

A port is destroying corals to expand. Can an NGO rescue enough to matter?

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 19 Dec 2024

Nepal created a forest fund to do everything; five years on it’s done nothing

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Dec 2024

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