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Brazil pledges to cut carbon, but government policies say otherwise

Jenny Gonzales 6 Oct 2016

Researchers say addressing the second D in REDD can benefit the climate while ensuring timber harvests

Mike Gaworecki 17 Aug 2016

Illegal gold mining eats up more protected Peruvian rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Aug 2016

Tapajós dams may bring fish kills, species loss, mercury contamination

Tatiana Farah, from Repórter Brasil 2 Aug 2016

Study: Drought impedes tree growth, shuts down Amazon carbon sink

Claire Asher 21 Jul 2016
Blue color form of Dendrobates auratus dart frog. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

10 conservation “fads”: how have they worked in Latin America?

Aldo Orellana López, Alan Forsberg 17 Jun 2016
Greenpeace protesting against a company's palm oil policy. Courtesy of Greenpeace

10 reasons to be optimistic for forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2016

SE Asia’s damaged peat swamps could release 8.7 gigatons of CO2

Loren Bell 31 May 2016

Indigenous territories occupy 40 percent of protected land and marine areas in Central America

Mike Gaworecki 20 May 2016

Alec Baldwin, Helen Clark join Indigenous leaders calling for forest protections and land rights to combat climate change

Mike Gaworecki 21 Apr 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Mato Grosso leading the fight against climate change and deforestation (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 10 Mar 2016

Forest restoration: from Stone Age to drone age

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Mar 2016

$1m for devising best way to map Indonesia’s peatlands

Sapariah Saturi 5 Mar 2016

Conservationists part ways on primary forest logging

Saul Elbein 29 Feb 2016

Soil carbon could be key to protecting global biodiversity and climate at same time

Mike Gaworecki 24 Feb 2016

Indonesia’s peat peninsula being drained into oblivion, study finds

Loren Bell 24 Feb 2016

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Mitch Paquette 12 Feb 2016

Secondary forests offer big opportunity to fight global warming

Mike Gaworecki 12 Feb 2016

Fighting climate change means protecting forests and wildlife

Russell A. Mittermeier 19 Jan 2016

What’s ahead for rainforests in 2016? 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2016

Loss of big animals reduces forests’ carbon-storing capacity

Loren Bell 19 Dec 2015
Muskrat Falls in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, the future site of the hydroelectric dam. The falls will be flooded in 2017. Photo by Amina Schartup.

New dams may expose Canadian seafood consumers to higher levels of neurotoxin

Emily Benson 23 Nov 2015

Preservatives from cosmetics build up in the bodies of far-flung marine mammals

Bethany Augliere 23 Nov 2015

Gold mining explodes in Suriname, puts forests and people at risk

Apoorva Joshi 30 Oct 2015

Indonesia’s mercury policy a good start, but kinks remain

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 5 Sep 2015

Researchers find ‘hidden tapestry’ of plant chemicals in Amazon forest

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jul 2015

Fighting fire with money: can finance protect Indonesia’s forests?

Pek Shibao 6 Apr 2015

Campaign asks consumers to directly support forest conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Feb 2015

World Bank’s forest carbon program falls short on indigenous peoples’ rights, argues report

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2015

Mercury fish: gold mining puts downstream communities at risk in Peru

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2015

Financial pledges for REDD+ slow to be disbursed, finds report

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2015

Ending deforestation won’t stop carbon emissions from land use change

Jeremy Hance 17 Nov 2014

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