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Natural forest and an acacia plantation on the island of Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Corporate sustainability shouldn’t be an unknown entity (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 2 Aug 2021

As blazes on embargoed Amazon land surge, links to meat industry emerge

Andrew Wasley, Elisângela Mendonça 30 Jul 2021

Old and new solutions pave way to net-zero emissions farming, studies show

Claire Asher 30 Jul 2021

New report provides road map for expanding chestnut agroforestry in the U.S.

Sarah Derouin 30 Jul 2021
Prolonged dry conditions have caused the worst drought in central and southern Brazil in almost a century. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on NASA's Landsat 8 captured an image of Lago das Brisas on the Paranaíba River on June 17, 2021.

Lessons from Brazil’s São Paulo droughts (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 30 Jul 2021

Ethnic communities in Myanmar opposing a coal plant see their fight get harder

Robert Bociaga 29 Jul 2021
Rainforest creek in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Hartree Partners to channel $2 billion toward new carbon credits

Liz Kimbrough 28 Jul 2021

Cerrado desertification: Savanna could collapse within 30 years, says study

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Jul 2021

Palm oil grower looks to make amends for past deforestation in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jul 2021

Canadian miner looms large as Nauru expedites key deep-sea mining rules

Ian Morse 27 Jul 2021

Global restoration now has an online meeting point

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jul 2021
Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Betting big on bioacoustics: Q&A with philanthropist Lisa Yang

Rhett A. Butler 22 Jul 2021

Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests

Jim Tan 20 Jul 2021

FSC dumps palm oil giant Korindo amid rights, environmental issues in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2021

How to make conservation more effective: Q&A with Nick Salafsky

Rhett A. Butler 14 Jul 2021

Top brands failing to spot rights abuses on Indonesian oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Jul 2021
Coastal net pens for salmon aquaculture in Norway. Image by Brataffe via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

For Norway salmon farms giving up deforestation-linked soy, Cargill proves a roadblock

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 7 Jul 2021
A mural of murdered activists Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo by disoniador via Pixabay.

Former dam executive found guilty in the killing of Berta Cáceres

Mongabay.com 6 Jul 2021

The true environmental cost of the Internet (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 5 Jul 2021

Nauru’s intention to mine the seabed prompts alarm among conservationists

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jul 2021

Biofuel in Mexico: Uphill battle against bureaucracy, organized crime

Sandra Weiss 2 Jul 2021
Blackwater lake, rainforest, and the whitewater Zacambu River in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

The conservation gains we’ve made are still fragile, says Aileen Lee of the Moore Foundation

Rhett A. Butler 1 Jul 2021

Converting biowaste to biogas could power cleaner, sustainable Earth future

Marina Martinez 1 Jul 2021

Deforestation of orangutan habitat feeds global palm oil demand, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jun 2021
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Farmers in the Amazon could earn 9 times more and prevent ecosystem collapse

Jonah Wittkamper; Alexander Borges Rose; and Denis Minev 22 Jun 2021

$10 million XPRIZE Rainforest contest announces 33 qualifying teams

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Jun 2021

Can the Japanese seafood industry reconcile their finances with nature?

François Mosnier 15 Jun 2021

Chinese banks pouring billions into deforestation-linked firms, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Jun 2021
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

As the world’s biggest users of water, business must act to save it (commentary)

Roan du Feu | Georg Kell 4 Jun 2021

West Papua revokes quarter of a million hectares of land from palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jun 2021
Satellite image of oil palm, agriculture, and forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image credit: Maxar Technologies.

Chocolate giant funds high resolution carbon map to protect forests

Aurora Solá 1 Jun 2021
Brett Jenks visits with Mabi, the clown fish mascot of a community Pride campaign in the Philippines in 2011. Photo credit: Rare

‘Inspiring behavior change so people and nature thrive’: Q&A with Rare’s Brett Jenks

Rhett A. Butler 1 Jun 2021

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