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Seized teak logs in Myanmar, 2020. Image courtesy of Environmental Investigation Agency.

Is Jeff Bezos’s $500 million yacht made with ‘blood timber’ from Myanmar? (commentary)

Paul Woolwich 22 Jun 2023
Clouds reflected in a lake in the Amazon Rainforest.

We must center gender and community rights for climate action (commentary)

Coraina de la Plaza & Valentina Figuera Martínez 8 Jun 2023
Metal debris in water near SpaceX launch site. Image courtesy of the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries program of Defenders of Wildlife.

Don’t destroy Earth on the way to Mars (commentary)

Sharon Wilcox 23 May 2023
A youth leader demonstrates the impact of oil production on the local community.

As Shell, Eni quit Niger Delta, state-backed report describes legacy of carnage

Ashoka Mukpo 16 May 2023
Overhead shot of two men standing in shallow water, bent over repairing a large wooden canoe. Image by Bolaji Eiseke via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

For weary Niger Delta residents, shocking oil pollution report offers little hope

Ini Ekott 16 May 2023
A photo of dead fish on the shores of lake Ambavarano.

Fish deaths near Rio Tinto mine in Madagascar dredge up community grievances

Malavika Vyawahare 16 May 2023
Activists in Malaysia

Sarawak Indigenous NGO squeezed by defamation case, silenced from reporting alleged logging

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 16 May 2023
The QMM mine is on a peninsula near Fort-Dauphin in Madagascar. Image via Rio Tinto website.

Rio Tinto must repair the damage caused by their Madagascar mine (commentary)

Ketakandriana Rafitoson 28 Apr 2023
Rio Tinto company logo on helmet.

After 150 years of damage to people and planet, Rio Tinto ‘must be held to account’ (commentary)

Saul Jones 5 Apr 2023

‘Hope is action.’ David Suzuki retires into a life of determined activism

Richard Schiffman 28 Mar 2023
A coffee farmer carries saplings.

Companies eye ‘carbon insetting’ as winning climate solution, but critics are wary

Ian Morse 13 Mar 2023
From center left to right: David Cooper, CBD Deputy Executive Secretary; COP 15 President Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment, China; Xia Yingxian, China; and Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, CBD Executive Secretary. Image by UN biodiversity via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Nations adopt Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Latoya Abulu, Sahana Ghosh 20 Dec 2022

Blue jeans: An iconic fashion item that’s costing the planet dearly

Jenny Gonzales 17 Nov 2022
Protestors with signs protesting EACOP, ReconAfrica projects. Image courtesy 350.org

‘Disclose the deal,’ East Africa pipeline opponents say (commentary)

Robert Tumwesigye Baganda 5 Oct 2022
Greenpeace activists built a carbon bomb to protest Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage at a protest in Germany. Image courtesy of Karsten Smid / Greenpeace Media Library.

Big Oil’s capture of IPCC assessment for policymakers ‘shakes our faith’ (commentary)

Lindley Mease 25 Aug 2022
Misak women, men and children observe the contrast between the monoculture pine and eucalyptus plantation, on the right, and the natural forest in their territory, on the left, from a distance.

FSC-certified paper plantation faces farmer backlash in Colombia

Natalia Torres Garzón 15 Aug 2022

Farmer-to-farmer agroecology: Q&A with Chukki Nanjundaswamy of Amrita Bhoomi Learning Centre

Anna Lappé 3 Aug 2022
Earth seen from space. Image via Pexels.

Space: New frontier for climate change & commodification, or conservation? (commentary)

Evan Briscoe 11 Jul 2022
Fish killed by a mine tailings dam breach. Photo courtesy of Andrew Lees Trust.

On hazardous mine tailings dams, ‘safety first’ should be the rule (commentary)

Jan Morrill 6 Jul 2022
Logging operation in Sweden. Image courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

How unsustainable is Sweden’s forestry? ‘Very.’ Q&A with Marcus Westberg and Staffan Widstrand

Erik Hoffner 17 Jun 2022

Does citizen ownership of natural resources hold the key to realizing deforestation commitments? (commentary)

Han Overman 6 Jun 2022
Piñatex fibers in the drying stage. The pineapple leaf fiber has great tensile strength and flexibility. Image courtesy of Riikka Juva/Ananas Anam.

Sustainable fashion: Biomaterial revolution replacing fur and skins

Jenny Gonzales 8 Apr 2022

Coalition against online wildlife trafficking shares little evidence of success (analysis)

Toby McIntosh 25 Mar 2022

At a plantation in Central Africa, Big Oil tries to go net-zero

Ashoka Mukpo 20 Jan 2022
Cattle in Brazil

European supermarkets say Brazilian beef is off the menu

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Dec 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Mongabay reporter sued in what appears to be a pattern of legal intimidation by Peruvian cacao company

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2021

$1.5 billion Congo Basin pledge a good start but not enough, experts say

Jim Tan 3 Dec 2021

Oil executives deny misinformation on climate change, despite evidence

Shanna Hanbury 2 Nov 2021

Banking on deforestation: Top lenders make $1.7b from agribusiness deals

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Oct 2021
Chimpanzee

In Guinea, an illegal $6b gold ‘bonanza’ threatens endangered chimpanzees

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Oct 2021

Tanzanian gold miners ten times more likely to die from road injuries, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 15 Oct 2021

11 Mongabay investigations in two years. Here’s what we found

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Sep 2021

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