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A toco toucan in a Brazilian forest. Experts confirm the fact that homogenous plantations, or monocultures, have a much lower diversity of species when compared to the environment that has been destroyed to make way for them. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

It’s time to pay the true value of tropical forest conservation (commentary)

André Aquino, João Rezende 12 Jun 2025
The Matsés in Peru were one of the Indigenous communities targeted by the finance schemes. Image by Mongabay.

Mongabay investigation of sketchy forest finance schemes wins honorable mention

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2025
Students in Afghanistan walk to school in a sand storm during a drought in 2019.

Climate futures: World leaders’ failure to act is pushing Earth past 1.5°C

Claire Asher 11 Jun 2025
Community-led urban gardens have long existed in the city of Salvador in Brazil.

Real-world return on climate adaption investments wildly underestimated, report finds

Justin Catanoso 10 Jun 2025

Is rising CO2 really bad for the world’s drylands? Mongabay podcast probes

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2025
Representatives from several associations submit an open letter to the UNFCCC, stating that climate finance must adhere to the principle of historical responsibility for the climate change by wealthy industrialized countries by repaying the 'ecological debt' to developing countries in the Global South.

Carbon capture projects promise a climate fix — and a fossil fuel lifeline

Nithin Coca 4 Jun 2025

World Bank uses climate crisis as cover for land-grabbing, Oakland Institute says

Bobby Bascomb 3 Jun 2025

A new mall for the village: How carbon credit dollars affect Indigenous Guyanese

Clarissa Levy from Agência Pública 28 May 2025
An excavator and a gold washing station at the Alangong-Bamegod-Inès mine site in the Sangha. This equipment is typical of semi-industrial gold mining, while the water for the washing station is drawn from surrounding streams, raising concerns about contamination. Image by Elodie Toto for Mongabay.

Deforestation in REDD-protected Congo rainforests is ‘beyond words’

Mike DiGirolamo 20 May 2025
A herder minding his goats in Isiolo County, Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Crisis hits community-led conservation group in northern Kenya

Ashoka Mukpo 20 May 2025
The proximity with non-Indigenous culture and lack of economic alternatives make some young Mundurukus turn to illegal mining.

From chickens to cassava, Brazil’s Munduruku seek alternatives to mining

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes 20 May 2025
: President Luis Arce received a gift from a member of the United States of Kailasa in Bolivia. It was in 2024 at the event for the anniversary of CIDOB in Santa Cruz. Image courtesy of El Deber.

Bolivia expels members of fake nation Kailasa over Indigenous land lease scandal

Iván Paredes Tamayo 16 May 2025

Republic of Congo’s gold mining boom undermines conservation efforts

Mongabay.com 16 May 2025
A man herds goats in the town of Gotu in Isiolo county, Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

Kenyan soil carbon project suspended for a second time

Ashoka Mukpo 15 May 2025
Banner image of oil palm plantation in Malaysia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Study offers new tool to compare environmental impacts of crops

Kristine Sabillo 13 May 2025
The sun sets New York City. Lengthy record-setting heat waves can be costly, greatly increasing ozone and other air pollutants, resulting in deaths and hospitalizations, while also straining energy grids, transportation networks and water supplies. Image by Johannes Plenio (@jplenio) via Unsplash.

Science lays out framework to assess climate liability of fossil fuel majors

Justin Catanoso 9 May 2025
Tsimi Judith harvesting the Gnetum (okok) in the village of Minwoho, Lekié, Center Region, Cameroon.

Report shows policy gaps in safeguarding the carbon rights of forest communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 May 2025

Indonesia’s gas bet poses risks for economy, health and climate

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 May 2025
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog in Peruvian Amazon.

New report reinforces critical role of Amazonian protected areas in climate fight

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 May 2025
eucalyptus forest

Eucalyptus for Brazil’s steelmaking dries out communities in Minas Gerais

Daniel Camargos, Emmanuelle Picaud, Simone Fant 29 Apr 2025
Pará Governor Helder Barbalho celebrates after signing the deal with the LEAF Coalition of corporations at New York Climate Week in September 2024. Image courtesy of SEMAS.

Brazil prosecutors dispute $175m Amazon Rainforest carbon credit deal

Shanna Hanbury 29 Apr 2025
Flowering tree in the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Refocusing conservation funding on trust & community leadership after USAID freeze (commentary)

Leona M. Bhuyan 28 Apr 2025
Forest in Panama that Amigos del Bosque aims to conserve via biodiversity credits, carbon offsets, or other payments for ecosystem services. Image courtesy of Amigos del Bosque.

Paying to prevent deforestation is positive & not ‘nothing’ (commentary)

Jessica Ausinheiler 24 Apr 2025

Building environmental laws across Amazon countries

Timothy J. Killeen 23 Apr 2025
One of approximately 200 kipunji monkeys in the Udzungwa Mountains. Image courtesy Anthony Jarrett.

New strategy launched to protect Tanzanian biodiversity hotspot

Ryan Truscott 2 Apr 2025
Construction of the first section of the motorway. Image courtesy of Corrine Rahoeliarisoa.

Madagascar highway pushes on through controversy

Rivonala Razafison 31 Mar 2025
Banner image of a housing estate in Australia by Calistemon via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Housing affordability through sustainability? Mongabay podcast explores

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2025
In October 2024, deforestation linked to the construction of the Middle Russei Chrum dam was already spilling over into the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project area. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

New dams call into question Cambodia’s commitment to REDD+ projects

Gerald Flynn 19 Mar 2025

Sri Lanka communities left gasping for climate mitigation support

Sahana David Menon 18 Mar 2025
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau province.

Political appointments in Indonesian climate program spark outcry over accountability

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Mar 2025
tree timber Brazil

Forest management ambitions in Brazilian Amazon aim to make up for lost time

Jenny Gonzales 12 Mar 2025
Across the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project in southwest Cambodia, communities have alleged abuse at the hands of the project developer. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Indigenous community calls out Cambodian REDD+ project as tensions simmer in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 10 Mar 2025

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