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The successful use of microorganisms in the production of soybeans is driving R&D for the development of bioproducts focused on different crops. Image by Bruno Kelly/Greenpeace.

Biofertilizers cut costs and GHG emissions for Brazilian soybean producers

Juliana Ennes 26 Oct 2022
E-waste management.

Bangladesh e-waste rules hang in limbo as electrical goods companies ask for delay

Maksuda Aziz 21 Oct 2022
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

Early retirement for Indonesian coal plants could cut CO2, boost jobs, analysis says

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2022
Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

Successes and struggles: Brazil’s 20-year Amazon reforestation carbon sink project

Marina Martinez 12 Oct 2022
Goat herders along a road in Muzarabani

Australian oil and gas firm Invictus awarded carbon offset project in Zimbabwe

Ryan Truscott 12 Oct 2022
Men processing abacá fiber.

Clothes sourced from plants could expand deforestation – or abate it

Ian Morse 12 Oct 2022
A coral reef in Sharm el Sheikh

‘One more thing’ about plastics: They could be acidifying the ocean, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Oct 2022
This photo of logged old-growth forest outside Olympia National Park, shows what can happen when mature forests aren’t given full protection.

New study identifies mature forests on U.S. federal lands ripe for protection

Justin Catanoso 4 Oct 2022

The force is strong with space lasers helping researchers map the Amazon in 3D

Abhishyant Kidangoor 4 Oct 2022
People wait on the Kasai bank to cross the river.

The mine leak was bad. The DRC and Angola’s response are no better, report says

Anna Weekes 4 Oct 2022
Sorting through plastic

Experts decry ‘funny math’ of plastics industry’s ‘advanced recycling’ claims

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Sep 2022
A veriety of drugs in vials and an IV bottle.

Humans are dosing Earth’s waterways with medicines. It isn’t healthy.

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Sep 2022
Fire in Indonesia forest

Pandemic dip was just a blip as global emissions rebound, report shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Sep 2022
Global forest carbon map

New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity

Carolyn Cowan 19 Sep 2022

EU votes to keep woody biomass as renewable energy, ignores climate risk

Justin Catanoso 16 Sep 2022
Torrance Coste stands on a stump

British Columbia delays promised protections as old growth keeps falling

Justin Catanoso 14 Sep 2022

Sri Lanka eyes major compensation case over X-Press Pearl sinking

Malaka Rodrigo 14 Sep 2022
A hogfish in the coral reefs

Acid test: Are the world’s oceans becoming too ‘acidic’ to support life?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Sep 2022

Indonesia and Norway give REDD+ deal another go after earlier breakup

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2022
Mangrove forest on Nosy Lonjo, Antsiranana, Madagascar. Image by Kenguinaud via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The Western Indian Ocean lost 4% of its mangroves in 24 years, report finds

Mark Hillsdon 7 Sep 2022
A mobile chipper making short shrift of freshly felled centenary beech trunks to produce wood chips that are burned “green,” with up to 50% moisture, in a local district heating system in February 2022.

Switzerland set to burn more trees to reach its climate and energy goals (commentary)

Lucie Wuethrich 6 Sep 2022
A miner panning for gold in a gold-bearing basin using mercury

Chinese companies criticized for mercury pollution in Cameroon

Christophe Nyemeck Beat 5 Sep 2022
A boy sorts through the waste in a landfill

Weak waste management leaves Dhaka communities at risk from landfill sites

S.M. Najmus Sakib 2 Sep 2022
Residents paddle a boat down a flooded street in Bojongasih village.

Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’

Donny Iqbal 31 Aug 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia

Annelise Giseburt 29 Aug 2022
Study co-author Corneille Ewango.

In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil

John Cannon 28 Jul 2022

Indonesia’s mangrove restoration bid holds huge promise, but obstacles abound

Warief Djajanto Basorie 26 Jul 2022
Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)

Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests

Elizabeth Devitt 6 Jul 2022
A farmer in a village in the Kerinci region.

A conservation failure in Sumatra serves a cautionary tale for PES schemes

Cassie Freund 30 Jun 2022

‘That’s a scam’: Indian firm’s REDD+ carbon deal in the DRC raises concern

John Cannon 14 Jun 2022

Even Antarctic snow can’t escape the plastic peril, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2022
View of the Nangaritza valley from near Las Orquideas. Photo by Andrew Neil via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Illegal mining threatens one of the last forest links between the Andes and Ecuador’s Amazon

Jackeline Beltrán 10 Jun 2022

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