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A woman stands near a shop damaged during a flood in Aceh province, Indonesia, Nov. 29, 2025.

Indonesia closes 2025 with rising disasters and stalled environmental reform

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Dec 2025
Rubber agroforestry in Thailand.

SE Asia’s smallholders struggling to meet EUDR: Interview with RECOFTC’s Martin Greijmans

Carolyn Cowan 29 Dec 2025
A woman stands among coffee bushes in Colombia. Image courtesy of Juliana Cajiao Raigosa.

Agroforestry grows in popularity among central Colombia’s coffee farmers (analysis)

Juliana Cajiao Raigosa 23 Dec 2025
A cocoa farmer and member of a local cooperative inspects the state of bean fermentation in Lembe Yezoum, Cameroon.

Researchers find concerning gaps in global maps used for EUDR compliance

John Cannon 19 Dec 2025
A looper moth (Biston suppressaria) in Assam, India.

Warmer climate triggers pest infestations in Bangladesh, India tea estates

Sadiqur Rahman 8 Dec 2025
Spraying pesticides on a field. Chemical pesticides have become ubiquitous in industrial agriculture, and have contributed to a rapid rise in chronic diseases, researchers say.

‘Silent epidemic of chemical pollution’ demands radical regulatory redo, say scientists

Mike Gaworecki 3 Dec 2025
A Bornean orangutan.

Indigenous Dayak sound alarm as palm oil firm razes orangutan habitat in Borneo

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Dec 2025
Bambang Hero Saharjo and Basuki Wasis, two environmental experts from IPB University, after the first hearing of their lawsuit against their testimony at the Cibinong District Court,

In Indonesia’s courts, truth can be a lonely witness

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Nov 2025

EU touts climate leadership while undermining antideforestation rules, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Nov 2025

With military backing and oligarch allies, Indonesia pushes controversial food estate

Jeff Hutton 19 Nov 2025

New population of the world’s rarest great ape discovered

Juan Maza 15 Nov 2025
Cacao illegally farmed inside Côte d’Ivoire’s Cavally Forest Reserve. Image courtesy of Mighty Earth.

Cacao rush fuels conflict and deforestation in southeastern Liberia

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2025

Soy giants quietly prepare for EU deforestation law; impacts still uncertain

Marina Martinez 12 Nov 2025

Cautious win for Indigenous groups in Malaysia as palm oil firm pauses forest clearing

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 11 Nov 2025

UNESCO biosphere listing raises hope, questions for Malaysia’s Kinabatangan floodplain

Keith Anthony Fabro 6 Nov 2025
Watcharakon Jatoenpun, AKA Sprite, showed reporters the expansive maize farms he works on in Mae Cham district, where seasonal air pollution is tied to agricultural burning. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Karen community fighting corn and coal for clean air in northern Thailand

Gerald Flynn 6 Nov 2025
A cassava farmer checks his crops in the Juma Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, circa 2011. Cassava serves as both an important commercial crop and a subsistence crop by Indigenous and traditional peoples.

Witch Hunt: Virulent fungal disease attacks South America’s cassava crop

Gloria Dickie 5 Nov 2025
An elephant in Assam's Kaziranga National Park. India's Assam state has one of the highest incidents of human-elephant conflicts.

AI system eavesdrops on elephants to prevent deadly encounters in India

Spoorthy Raman 23 Oct 2025
Farmers gather at Bhimruli guava market for selling their produces.

Guava yields in South Asia shrink due to unpredictable heat & rainfall

Sadiqur Rahman 20 Oct 2025
A deforested area in Barrerias, in Bahia state.

Deforestation for soy continues in Brazilian Cerrado despite EUDR looming

Constance Malleret 17 Oct 2025
Bambang Hero Saharjo and Basuki Wasis, two environmental experts from IPB University, after the first hearing of their lawsuit against their testimony at the Cibinong District Court,

Indonesia court clears wildfire scientists in case brought by palm oil company

Rendy Tisna 17 Oct 2025
Fresh oil palm fruit bunches. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil must halt Liberian palm oil company’s abuses (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 15 Oct 2025
Cacao illegally farmed inside Côte d’Ivoire’s Cavally Forest Reserve. Image courtesy of Mighty Earth.

A cacao rush drives ‘alarming’ deforestation in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Oct 2025
Banner image: A boy holds locusts he caught in Nakuru county, Kenya Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Image courtesy of AP Photo/Brian Inganga.

Fears of major locust swarms wane in the Sahel but agencies step up monitoring

Stephanie Achieng’ 7 Oct 2025
Oil palm planation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

RSPO sparks NGO outrage for dismissing complaint over alleged ‘shadow companies’

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Oct 2025
A harvester harvesting soy in Brazil.

Brazil soy deal that curbs Amazon deforestation to be suspended in 2026

Shanna Hanbury 6 Oct 2025
Lina Ruiz and Lita Rojas outside of the court in Ucayali after hearing the first ruling. Image by Hugo Alejos.

Report finds 226 Indigenous land defenders in Peru at risk of violence

Yvette Sierra Praeli 29 Sep 2025
Maan Alima Tagnan under her gliricidia tree, one of the fertilizer trees she has planted in her field.

Burkina Faso’s women farmers reviving the land with fertilizer trees

Yvette Zongo 25 Sep 2025
A palm oil plantation in Indonesia. Market leakage — sellers shifting EU-bound commodities to other less regulated markets — could undermine the effectiveness of the EUDR in some supply chains.

The EU proposes delaying anti-deforestation law, again

Bobby Bascomb 23 Sep 2025

Palm Oil War

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2025
Seen through Santarém’s fish auction: ocean-faring vessel being loaded at the Cargill soy terminal.

An ancient Indigenous civilization endures beneath an Amazon urban soy hub

Peter Speetjens 16 Sep 2025
A view of oil palm groves on the Socapalm plantation from the village of Apouh. Image by Yannick Kenné for Mongabay.

Palm oil giant Socapalm still planting on disputed land in Cameroon as villagers seek redress

Victoria Schneider 9 Sep 2025

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