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Charcoal bags on a boat near Katha, Myanmar. The boat is bound for Bhamo, where the charcoal will be taken by trucks over the order to China. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Myanmar to target illegal charcoal trade with China

Mongabay.com 18 Jan 2018

Biofuel project near India’s rhino heartland sparks protests

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 22 Nov 2017
A boat travels in a tributary to the Irrawaddy River near Katha, northern Myanmar. Along this tributary, charcoal is produced by villages and sold to traders that eventually bring it to China, where it is used in factories that make silicon metal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

The charcoal hunters

Emmanuel Freudenthal, Nathan Siegel 27 Oct 2017
A local cools charcoal at a kiln near Katha, Myanmar. This kiln takes seven days to produce 130 bags of charcoal. Myo Htun, who owns the charcoal, will sell each bag for $0.90 to traders in Bhamo, who will then transport it to China. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Burning down the house: Myanmar’s destructive charcoal trade

Emmanuel Freudenthal 26 Oct 2017

Can community forestry deliver for Madagascar’s forests and people?

Rowan Moore Gerety 2 Oct 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

Charcoal and cattle ranching tearing apart the Gran Chaco

John Cannon 19 Jul 2017

Aggressive forest protection needed to meet US climate goals

Mike Gaworecki 21 Mar 2017
A woman and donkey carry firewood and tree material from the Entoto forest. Photo by Ji-Elle via Wikimedia Commons.

Despite population growth and management challenges, hope for forests in Ethiopia

Elias Meseret 17 Mar 2017

Newly discovered Tanzanian frog already facing extinction

Benji Jones 2 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
A man transports charcoal in a wheelbarrow in No Man's Land in Namanga, a border town between Kenya and Tanzania. Photo by Nathan Siegel

An East African border town struggles with growing pains

Nathan Siegel 18 Nov 2016
Amone Ayesa collects wood in the Entoto forest outside of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese

The people of Ethiopia’s forests

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 15 Nov 2016
Tumaini Matinda drives his beat up 1995 Land Cruiser during one of his patrols in the forests of the Simanjiro district in northeast Tanzania. Photo by Willy Lowry

One man’s quest to save Tanzania’s forests

Sophie Tremblay, Willy Lowry 7 Nov 2016
A cook fries potato chips using charcoal at the Salama Guest House on the Kenyan side of Namanga. Photo by Nathan Siegel

In a border town, a favorite African fuel has an uncertain future

Nathan Siegel 3 Nov 2016
Villagers in Tanzania use mobile monitoring to keep an eye on the forests. Photo courtesy USAID Africa

Despite conservation efforts, Tanzania’s forests still under pressure

Sophie Tremblay, Willy Lowry 7 Oct 2016
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

A dangerous, illegal necessity: charcoal reform comes to Virunga

Sophie Mbugua 2 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

Kenya’s forests squeezed as government pressures environment groups

David Njagi 6 May 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

Man starts record-breaking walk to protect one of the world’s rarest primates

Greg Norman 2 Sep 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

Firewood fervor may turn Zimbabwe into an ‘outright desert’

Apoorva Joshi 5 Mar 2015

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

Mike Gaworecki 27 Feb 2015

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