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Breadfruit trees produce large, potato-like fruits.

Breadfruit’s low carbon storage could be offset by fast growth, study finds

Claudia Geib 5 Mar 2024
A farmer spraying pesticides in a rice field.

Scientists and doctors raise global alarm over hormone-disrupting chemicals

Alden Wicker 4 Mar 2024
Johan Rockström.

Planetary boundary pioneer Johan Rockström awarded 2024 Tyler Prize

Glenn Scherer 29 Feb 2024
The LNG carrier Shahamah in Uraga Channel, Japan.

U.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts say

Shanna Hanbury 27 Feb 2024
A poler bear.

Freeze on Russian collaboration disrupts urgently needed permafrost data flow

Elizabeth Devitt 20 Feb 2024
A female western hoolock gibbon with its baby.

Herbicide used in Bangladesh tea production threatens biodiversity & health

Farhana Parvin 19 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
Image by Dinesh Valke via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Freeing trees of their liana load can boost carbon sequestration in tropical forests

Mark Hillsdon 1 Feb 2024

In Nepal’s Chitwan, tourist pools spell possible trouble for environment & wildlife

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jan 2024

How much carbon does ocean trawling put into the atmosphere?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Jan 2024
People holding wood pellets.

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

Justin Catanoso 18 Jan 2024

Markets and forests: 7 takeaways from our series on the forest carbon trade

John Cannon 17 Jan 2024

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Jan 2024
A teacher and farmer in Lukolela, DRC.

The future of forest carbon credits and voluntary markets

John Cannon 16 Jan 2024
A herd of cows.

Agricultural nitrogen pollution is global threat, but circular solutions await

Claire Asher 16 Jan 2024
A long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in Borneo.

Leveraging the hypothetical: The uncertain world of carbon credit calculations

John Cannon 12 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

Forest restoration planned for Colombia’s Farallones de Cali National Park

Maxwell Radwin 9 Jan 2024
Women making skirts from grass in Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.

‘Cowboys’ and intermediaries thrive in Wild West of the carbon market

John Cannon 9 Jan 2024

Reversing progress, Indonesia pulp & paper drives up deforestation rates again

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2024
Aellow-cheeked crested gibbon

Do carbon credits really help communities that keep forests standing?

John Cannon 5 Jan 2024
A fisher casts a net in Malaysia.

Forest carbon credits and the voluntary market: A solution or a distraction?

John Cannon 3 Jan 2024
Rubber duckies

As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two

Alden Wicker 2 Jan 2024

Study: Fishing with pesticides and dynamite puts Ecuadorian Amazon in peril

Mark Hillsdon 2 Jan 2024
Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic Valley

Indigenous-led coalition calls for moratorium on terrestrial carbon trade

John Cannon 29 Dec 2023
Planet satellite images of the confluence of the Rio Negro and Rio Jufari near the border of the states of Amazonas and Roraima in Brazil taken in October 2023, revealing sandbars and exposed riverbed during the severe drought that affected large parts of the Amazon rainforest. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

The year in rainforests: 2023

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2023
An excavator at a coal mine.

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

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2023
Three pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus).

New tool aims to make nature-based solutions projects in SE Asia a better sell

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2023
A toucan in a tropical rainforest.

Tropical deforestation increases even as a few hotspots see respite, new data shows

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Dec 2023

Indonesia pushes carbon-intensive ‘false solutions’ in its energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Dec 2023
Firefighter fighting a battle against a veld-fire at Ashton Bay, Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa in March 2017. Photo credit: Steven Terblanch

Do tree-planting projects on grasslands increase fire risk?

Alix Soliman 28 Nov 2023

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