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Chinese business in the Amazon generates controversy

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Mar 2025

‘Sustainable’ palm oil firms continue illegal peatland clearing despite permit revocation

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Mar 2025
oil spill river

Colombia’s top oil company concealed environmental damages: Investigation

Mie Hoejris Dahl 20 Mar 2025

Global outcry as petitioners demand no mining expansion in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Mar 2025
Aerial photograph of land being cleared for a nickel mine in North Morowali.

Indonesian watchdog demands prosecution for environmental crime ‘cartels’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2025

Indonesian court blocks palm oil expansion, but leaves Indigenous land rights in limbo

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Mar 2025

UN accuses Indonesia’s No. 2 palm oil firm of rights & environmental abuses

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Mar 2025
A coal-fired power plant at night in the nickel industrial area in Halmahera.

US security think tank warns of China’s grip over Indonesian nickel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Feb 2025

Many companies meet climate pledges on paper — not on the ground, analyst says

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Feb 2025

Indonesia’s militarized crackdown on illegal forest use sparks human rights concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2025

Surge in legal land clearing pushes up Indonesia deforestation rate in 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Feb 2025
An oilfield location in Muanda early in the morning.

DRC orders environmental, operational audits of oil company Perenco

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Jan 2025

Coming to a retailer near you: Illegal palm oil from an orangutan haven

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jan 2025
Thai activists

Thai farmers demand action to restore ecosystems, compensate for invasive fish

Carolyn Cowan 16 Jan 2025
Oil palm fruits harvested in Kalimantan.

NGOs raise concerns over Borneo pilot of ‘jurisdictional’ certification for palm oil

Rendy Tisna 10 Jan 2025
An orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesian company defies order, plants acacia in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2025

Conservation and the rise of corporations in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Jan 2025

Companies banking on tech and collaboration to comply with EUDR

Sarah Brown 31 Dec 2024
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

Can the Cali Fund provide a rights-based remedy for biopiracy? (commentary)

Alex Reep, Jasmine Betancourt, Nissim Roffe Piket, Victoria Osanyinpeju 18 Dec 2024
Amazon Rainforest

Brazil paper and pulp industry invests in blockchain to comply with EUDR

Karla Mendes 16 Dec 2024
Banner image of a water vole beside a plastic bottle in Derbyshire, U.K., courtesy of Jack Perks/Greenpeace.

Coca-Cola cuts back on reusable plastic pledge

Kristine Sabillo 6 Dec 2024

In Brazil’s ‘water tank’, communities resist mining to preserve their water and livelihoods

Beatriz Miranda, Íria Borges 30 Nov 2024
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

How ‘waste colonialism’ underpins Asia’s plastic problem (commentary)

Coleen Salamat 18 Nov 2024

Fresh calls for oil giants to pay $12 billion for Niger Delta pollution

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Nov 2024
Oil palm plantation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler

Indonesia investigates suspected corruption in palm oil amnesty program

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Oct 2024
Student advocate Christina Rumalatu.

Indonesia civil society rallies behind student investigated over nickel protest

Christ Belseran, Irfan Maulana, Asad Asnawi 15 Oct 2024

In Ecuador, booming profits in small-scale gold mining reveal a tainted industry – investigation

Arturo Torres, Dan Collyns 3 Oct 2024

Cost-benefit analysis exposes ‘bogus’ promises of palm oil riches for Papuans

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Oct 2024
Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). Image by Lucy Keith-Diagne via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

NGOs raise concerns over oil exploration in Republic of Congo national park

Didier Makal 24 Sep 2024
Why the EU must stand firm on its plan to help protect the world’s forests

US consumers may be exposed to deforestation-linked palm oil via dairy: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Sep 2024

Sumatra citizen lawsuit seeks accountability for haze-causing fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Sep 2024

Eucalyptus expansion worsens droughts and fires in Brazil’s Cerrado, conservationists say

Sarah Brown 27 Aug 2024

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