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The Javari River where it forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Cutting down the Amazon does not build prosperity for most Brazilians

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2022
Mangroves in Los Haitises National Park, Dominican Republic. Image by Anton Bielousov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Mangrove restorers in Haiti bet on resilience amid rising violence

Conrad Fox 29 Sep 2022
binturong

Enigmatic binturong photographed in Nepal for the first time

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2022

Indonesian lobster larvae bound for Singapore reveal role of smuggling network

Basten Gokkon, Yogi Eka Sahputra 29 Sep 2022

In Brazil’s Ribeira Valley, traditional communities combine farming and conservation

Sibélia Zanon 29 Sep 2022
Sumatran rhinos

New estimate of less than 50 Sumatran rhinos shows perilous population drop

Jeremy Hance 29 Sep 2022
A lesser adjutant stork in a paddy field

Lesser adjutant stork study in Nepal raises conservationists’ hopes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2022

New cave bat species in Sri Lanka highlights need for more research

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Sep 2022

Brazil 2022: Election, environment and the future of the Amazon

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 29 Sep 2022

The Fixers: Top U.S. flooring retailers linked to Brazilian firm probed for corruption

Karla Mendes 29 Sep 2022
A Madame Berthe's mouse lemur. Image courtesy of Matthias Markolf.

World’s smallest primate is fading into extinction, scientists fear

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Sep 2022
Sorting through plastic

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Sep 2022
The proposed plan is to first mine Sugar Valley Hill on the south side of the Coastal Road, then progress northwest. Image courtesy of James Krupa for Mongabay.

In Belize, a proposed limestone mine threatens conservation legacy (commentary)

James Krupa 28 Sep 2022
Residents of Port-au-Prince wait outside a store to purchase bottled water.

Haiti: An island nation whose environmental troubles only begin with water

Conrad Fox 28 Sep 2022

In Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, deforesters foot the bill for political campaigns

Caio de Freitas Paes 28 Sep 2022
A rhododendron tree

Documenting Nepal’s plant-based medical tradition: Q&A with Ram Prasad Chaudhary

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Sep 2022
Adult harpy eagle image courtesy of Tom Ambrose.

Harpy eagle’s return to Costa Rica means rewilding’s time has come (commentary)

Andrew Whitworth 27 Sep 2022
An iceberg floats in Disko Bay, near Ilulissat, Greenland, on July 24, 2015. The massive Greenland ice sheet is shedding about 300 gigatons of ice a year into the ocean, making it the single largest source of sea level rise from melting ice. Image by NASA/Saskia Madlener via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Greenland’s Indigenous population favors extracting sand from melting ice sheet

Moira Donovan 27 Sep 2022
Indigenous groups participate in the Free Land Camp (ATL)

With rights at risk, Indigenous Brazilians get on the ballot to fight back

Beatriz Miranda 27 Sep 2022

Africa wants its climate money. Will rich countries pay?

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Sep 2022
Fish Loading and unloading activities.

Indonesia’s sustainable fisheries push sails into storm in Java Sea

Asad Asnawi 27 Sep 2022
Jair Bolsonaro with supporters

In the Amazon, Bolsonaro’s far right may retain power even if Lula wins

Jaqueline Sordi 26 Sep 2022

Reducing beef’s carbon footprint is key to achieving net-zero in Latin America and the Caribbean, new paper shows

Sarah Sax 26 Sep 2022
Women in a garment factory in Bangladesh.

Bangladeshi industries explore renewables as power crisis looms

Abu Siddique 26 Sep 2022
A crew of cantrang fishermen unload their cargo.

Java fishers struggle with seine net ban amid rising costs, falling profits

Asad Asnawi 26 Sep 2022
Traditional leaders and indigenous community members including Dennis Tipakalippa, far right, along with EDO Senior Solicitor Jordina Rust, second from left, celebrate their court victory. Image courtesy of Rebecca Parker.

Indigenous leader’s court win halts one of Australia’s ‘dirtiest gas projects’

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Sep 2022
A resident of Asunción Mita confirms his identity and signature to vote in a school classroom during a municipal referendum on mining. Image by Sandra Cuffe.

Guatemalans strongly reject mining project in local referendum

Sandra Cuffe 23 Sep 2022

2022: Another consequential year for the melting Arctic

Sharon Guynup 23 Sep 2022
Narwhal image by Газпром нефть via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The mystery of narwhal behavior, solved by chaos theory

Liz Kimbrough 23 Sep 2022
Palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Palm oil firms not acting fast enough on no-deforestation vows: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Sep 2022
A flower and a bee

Examining cooperation in nature: Q&A with author Kristin Ohlson

John Cannon 23 Sep 2022
A cattle herder in a cattle camp

Debunking the colonial myth of the ‘African Eden’: Q&A with author Guillaume Blanc

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Sep 2022

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