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Fisher working with net of trawling vessel.

Stalemate: WTO talks again fail to end overfishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 5 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

Indonesian nickel project harms environment and human rights, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Feb 2024
Jokowi visiting the location of Indonesia's new capital Nusantara with the Governor of East Kalimantan in 2019.

Indonesia to offer tax perks to companies investing in reforestation of its new capital city

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Feb 2024
Deforestation for oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2016. Photo courtesy of Linus.

Palm oil deforestation makes comeback in Indonesia after decade-long slump

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024
A woman is laying leather out to dry in Bangladesh.

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather

Sean Mowbray 6 Feb 2024
A harvester harvesting soy in Brazil.

Meet the think tank behind the agribusiness’ legislative wins in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jan 2024
Pandang on the road, going to the river.

Jokowi’s land reform agenda stalls as conflicts nearly double, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2024
People holding wood pellets.

Study: Burning wood pellets for energy endangers local communities’ health

Justin Catanoso 18 Jan 2024

Indonesian palm oil firm fined for fires sues expert a second time over testimony

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Jan 2024
A school of snappers under a pier

AI and satellite data map true scale of untracked fishing and ocean industry

Elizabeth Fitt 10 Jan 2024

U.S. mining companies leave lasting trail of contamination across Peru

Roberth Orihuela 10 Jan 2024
Army officers try to extinguish fires in peatland areas in Central Kalimantan.

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2024
Samburu pastoralists walking with their herd.

How will we know when local communities benefit from carbon offset schemes? (commentary)

Beth Allgood/John Waugh/Craig A. Talmage/Laura Musikanski/Dehara Weeraman 5 Jan 2024
At a mining site in Uis, Namibia.

Report: Rush for ‘clean energy’ minerals in Africa risks repeating harmful extractivist model

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Dec 2023
A coffee cup with beans. Photo by Lotus Head/Wikimedia Commons

U.S. and U.K. lawmakers must wake up to the coffee problem (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 21 Dec 2023
Altasea is a marine renewable energy and conservation technology hub on an old wharf in the port of Los Angeles. Image courtesy of Altasea.

Marine conservation technology hub rises from old L.A. wharf (analysis)

David Helvarg 20 Dec 2023
Scarlet tanager. Photo by Jen Goellnitz via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Bird-friendly maple syrup boosts Vermont forest diversity & resilience

Nina Foster 18 Dec 2023
An excavator at a coal mine.

COP28 ‘breakthrough’ elevates litigation as vital route to climate action

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2023

Activists slam ‘independent’ probe by Indonesian palm oil giant into violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2023

Indigenous groups rebuke court OK for palm oil company to raze Papua forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Dec 2023
Mt Guiting-Guiting range, seen from Magdiwang.

Nickel mine threatens Philippines biodiversity hotspot on Sibuyan Island (analysis)

Jake Willis 6 Dec 2023
Ships that burn heavy fuel oil emit dirty exhaust containing black carbon. These sooty particles supercharge global heating in polar environments and threaten the livelihoods of Arctic communities. Image by Cyprien Hauser via Flickr (CC BY-ND).

Any fossil fuel phase-out deal at COP28 must include global shipping (commentary)

Shaama Sandooyea 4 Dec 2023

As RSPO celebrates 20 years of work, Indigenous groups lament unresolved grievances

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Dec 2023
Clouds reflected in a lake in the Amazon Rainforest.

At COP28 & beyond, fair carbon markets must be part of the climate finance solution (commentary)

Charles Bedford, John Edward Myers 30 Nov 2023
A herd of lantana elephants in London, U.K.

The tricky business of commercializing invasive plants to death

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Nov 2023

Investigation shows ‘shadow companies’ linked to Indonesia palm oil giant First Resources

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2023
Aerial view showing a massive ring of thousands of whole trees at Enviva’s Sampson County, North Carolina

Enviva, the world’s largest biomass energy company, is near collapse

Justin Catanoso 20 Nov 2023
People walking through a forest.

Control of Africa’s forests must not be sold to carbon offset companies (commentary)

Alexandra Benjamin 17 Nov 2023

New platform offers toolkit for companies to prove their eco claims

Claudia Geib 16 Nov 2023
Posito Daom, a Pala'wan, pauses on his descent to the lowlands to sell chayote cultivated using the no-till method, a sustainable practice that avoids turning over and disturbing the soil, according to studies.

Indigenous farmers’ hard work protects a Philippine hotspot, but goes overlooked

Keith Anthony Fabro 16 Nov 2023
Forest in British Columbia. Photo: Rhett A. Butler

Calls for FSC to drop Canada’s Paper Excellence over ties to deforester

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2023

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