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A variety of corns and beans native to Mexico.

Expected ban on Mexican GM corn fetches praise — and worry over imports

Adam D. Williams 5 Feb 2025
Satellite imagery captured September 2024 by Planet Labs shows a fire burning along the boundary between Xingu Indigenous Park and Capoto/Jarina Indigenous Territory. The territories are surrounded by denuded industrial farm fields.

Fires rip through Indigenous territories in Brazilian Amazon

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Nov 2024

Communities band together to save besieged reserve in Bolivia

Iván Paredes Tamayo 20 Nov 2024
Cattle in a deforested patch of Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Indonesian palm oil, Brazilian beef top contributors to U.S. deforestation exposure

Liz Kimbrough 7 May 2024

In Brazil’s soy belt, community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon

Ana Ionova 15 Feb 2024

Cargill widens its deforestation-free goals, but critics say it’s not enough

Maxwell Radwin 29 Nov 2023

‘We just want to be left in peace’: In Brazil’s Amazon, soy ambitions loom over Indigenous land

Ana Ionova 9 Nov 2023

Deforestation on the rise in Quintana Roo, Mexico, as Mennonite communities move in

Robin Canul, VALERIA CONTRERAS 15 Mar 2023
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Poisoned by pesticides: Health crisis deepens in Brazil’s Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 16 Jan 2023
Soy and corn make up 88% of Brazil’s grain production

Bad weather knocks down Brazil’s grain production as ‘exhaustively forewarned’

Shanna Hanbury 17 Aug 2022
Zimbabwe farmer seed

Farmers rediscover benefits of traditional small grains in Zimbabwe

Tatenda Chitagu 15 Mar 2022

Corn growers in Brazil’s Cerrado reap a hostile climate of their own making

Maurício Angelo 15 Jul 2020

Madagascar calls for assistance as fires imperil its protected areas

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Oct 2019

Top Madagascar beer maker supports investigation into its corn supply chain

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Sep 2019

Interoceanic Highway incites deforestation in Peru, threatens more to come

Bart Crezee 1 Nov 2017

‘Decimated’: Germany’s birds disappear as insect abundance plummets 76%

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Oct 2017

NOAA announces largest-ever Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Aug 2017

Keeping up with the climate: efforts to reduce African crop losses face the extra hurdle of climate change

Rachel Cernansky 21 Apr 2015

Brazilian farmers urge return of big cats to Cerrado to protect crops from rampaging peccaries

Brendan Borrell 7 Apr 2015

Turning prairies into gas: study finds U.S. biofuel production has big impacts on grasslands

Glenn Scherer 2 Apr 2015

Migrating monarch butterflies hit shockingly low numbers

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2014

Tropical croplands expand by 48m ha in 10 years, raising environmental concerns

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Mar 2013

Drought drives corn prices to record high

Mongabay.com 9 Aug 2012

Palm oil does not meet U.S. renewable fuels standard, rules EPA

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2012

Prehistoric Peruvians enjoyed popcorn

Jeremy Hance 18 Jan 2012

Record dead zone projected due to Midwest floods

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2011

Do corporate sweetheart deals make French fries less healthy?

Jeremy Hance 18 Jan 2010

Monsanto GM Corn a Disaster in South Africa

Ryan King 31 Jul 2009

Smart biofuels that don’t hurt people or the environment are possible

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2009

Republic of Congo to turn over 25 M acres of land to South African farmers

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2009

Global warming will hit corn yields, costing US over a billion dollars annually

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2009

80% of agricultural expansion since 1980 came at expense of forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Feb 2009

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