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Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

Deforestation-linked palm oil still finding its way into top consumer brands: report

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Sep 2018

Indonesia seeks to get palm oil used as jet fuel in U.S., France

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2018

The dialogue between science and indigenous knowledge

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jun 2018

Do environmental advocacy campaigns drive successful forest conservation?

Mike Gaworecki 29 Mar 2018

Biofuel boost threatens even greater deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia: Study

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2018

Biofuel project near India’s rhino heartland sparks protests

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 22 Nov 2017

Philippine palm oil plan ‘equals corruption and land-grabbing,’ critics say

Brad Miller 31 Aug 2017

NOAA announces largest-ever Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Aug 2017

Aggressive forest protection needed to meet US climate goals

Mike Gaworecki 21 Mar 2017

What happens when the soy and palm oil boom ends?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Feb 2017

Investors learning to pay heed to community land rights

John Cannon 13 Feb 2017

These Indonesian villages are powered by locally sourced sustainable energy

Della Syahni 7 Feb 2017
Kelp and sardines in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary in California. Photo courtesy of NOAA's National Ocean Service

Could kelp forests keep ocean acidification at bay?

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2016
Part of the Green Fuel ethanol plant in Chisumbanje, Zimbabwe. Photo by Kenneth Matimaire.

Amid epic drought, villagers bitter over Zimbabwean ethanol plant

Andrew Mambondiyani 28 Jul 2016

Will Uganda be able to fulfill its pledge to protect its forests?

Arnest Tumwesige 6 Jan 2016

Environmentalists win ‘landmark’ case against biofuel project in Sri Lanka

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2015

Will Indonesia’s new palm oil subsidy undermine no-deforestation push?

Sapariah Saturi 1 Sep 2015

Millions of dollars pumped into oil palm development in Tanzania

John Cannon 9 Jul 2015

EU votes to scale back on biofuels linked to deforestation

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2015

Turning prairies into gas: study finds U.S. biofuel production has big impacts on grasslands

Glenn Scherer 2 Apr 2015

Biofuels are bad news for forests, climate, food security, says report

Mike Gaworecki 27 Feb 2015

Indonesia to squander fuel savings on biofuel subsidies that may drive deforestation, say groups

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Feb 2015

Conservationists ask, ‘Is nuclear the way to go?’

Anna Ikarashi 23 Jan 2015

‘A remarkable conservation achievement’: Ecuador reserve expands as forest disappears

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Oct 2014

Indonesia’s national airline to start using palm oil biofuel

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2014

Biomass burning accounts for 18% of CO2 emissions, kills a quarter of a million people annually

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2014

Brazil should convert pasture, not cerrado for biofuel crops

Mongabay.com 25 Jun 2014

Commodity eco-certification skyrockets, but standards slip

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2014

Migrating monarch butterflies hit shockingly low numbers

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2014

The palm oil debate: can the world’s most productive oilseed be less damaging to the environment?

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2013

Europe importing more palm oil for biofuels, raising risks for rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2013

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