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The Diavik diamond mine in northwestern Canada. Image from Google Maps.

Canada invests $1m into mining exploration on Indigenous land

Shanna Hanbury 25 Mar 2026
Canada Jay in Sax-Zim Bog. Canada Jays are a quintessential northwoods bird that utilize Black Spruce and Tamarack Bogs for foraging and nesting. Image by Friends of Sax-Zim Bog (FOSZB).

Communities join global push to protect European, Arctic & US peatlands

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 5 Feb 2026
A reindeer strolls through a bog in northern Sweden. Image by Alexandre Buisse via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Reindeer numbers may fall by more than half by 2100 as Arctic warms: Study

Mongabay.com 14 Nov 2025
Logging operation in Sweden. Image courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

Why Sweden’s forest policy matters to the world (commentary)

Emil Siekkinen 7 Nov 2025
A reindeer strolls through a bog in northern Sweden. Image by Alexandre Buisse via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Will the new EU environment leader change Sweden’s conservation direction? (commentary)

Daniel Bengtsson 7 Nov 2024

Burning wood is not ‘renewable energy,’ so why do policymakers pretend it is?

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 11 Jun 2024

The Narwhal makes waves in Canada for environmental journalism

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 7 May 2024
Satellite image of wildfires in Quebec, Canada, in June, 2023.

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2024

How to reward tropical forest conservation: Interview with Tasso Azevedo

Jenny Gonzales 22 Mar 2024
Russia's vast boreal forest is owned by the state and extensively logged. Image courtesy of Earthsight.

Biden’s new sanctions on Russia should include timber exports (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet, Tara Ganesh 26 Feb 2024

Forest conservation ‘off-track’ to halt deforestation by 2030: New report

John Cannon 24 Oct 2023

Even without human-driven deforestation, climate change threatens some forests

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Sep 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burning throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Forest fires are getting worse, 20 years of data confirm

Liz Kimbrough 17 Aug 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but solutions await

Liz Kimbrough 4 Aug 2022
Logging operation in Sweden. Image courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

How unsustainable is Sweden’s forestry? ‘Very.’ Q&A with Marcus Westberg and Staffan Widstrand

Erik Hoffner 17 Jun 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022
Deforestation in Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

What countries are leaders in reducing deforestation? Which are not?

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Nov 2021
Illegal sand and gold mining in Indonesian Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Do forest declarations work? How do the Glasgow and New York declarations compare?

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Nov 2021

North American paper industry merger sets off environmental alarms

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2021

Report: Illegal Russian lumber flooded Europe despite timber laws

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2020
Wooded landscape in Kõrvemaa Nature Park, Estonia. Image courtesy of Ireen Trummer via Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0.

EU renewable energy policy subsidizes surge in logging of Estonia’s protected areas (commentary)

Siim Kuresoo 7 Dec 2020
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burning throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Photos show scale of massive fires tearing through Siberian forests

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Jul 2020

Siberian heat drives Arctic ice extent to record low for early July

Gloria Dickie 10 Jul 2020

Conservation insights from an enormous aspen clone: Q&A with ecologist Paul Rogers

James Dinneen 5 Jun 2020

The thinning fabric of Earth’s forest cover (commentary)

Tom Evans 24 Sep 2019

Trekking the boreal forest for biodiversity

Erik Hoffner 12 Apr 2019

New space lasers offer best 3D look at global forests yet

David Klinges 18 Jan 2019

Forestry reforms could fall short without PM’s backing in Ukraine

John Cannon 28 Nov 2018

Earth has more trees now than 35 years ago

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Aug 2018

EU demand siphons illicit timber from Ukraine, investigation finds

John Cannon 17 Jul 2018

Why intact forests are important

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Feb 2018

Study reveals forests have yet another climate-protection superpower

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Jan 2018

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