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Some of the artists with the art installation

Mongabay investigation is turned into art for World Press Freedom Day event

Karla Mendes 27 May 2024
Aerial view of unpaved roads dividing a soy monoculture from the native Cerrado, in the region of Ribeiro Gonçalves, Piauí, Brazil. Image courtesy of Adriano Gambarini/WWF-Brazil.

In Brazil’s Cerrado, aquifers are losing more water than they can replace

Kevin Damasio 24 May 2024

Collective effort monitors Amazon wildlife in heavily logged Brazil state

Beatriz Santomauro 24 May 2024
Coffee beans on a plant.

As coffee expands in Bangladesh hills, conservationists worry about ecosystems

Abu Siddique 21 May 2024

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2024

NZ funding helps Indigenous farmers in Indonesia protect forests, boost incomes

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 May 2024
The red siskin.

Shade-grown coffee benefits birds, forests & people in Venezuela

James Hall 14 May 2024
Industrial oil palm development outside Balikpapan

Latest palm oil deforester in Indonesia may also be operating illegally

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 May 2024
A worker at a rubber plantation at PT Alam Lestari Nusantara. Image by Rubber tapping workers at PL ALN.

Desperation sets in for Indigenous Sumatrans who lost their forests to plantations

Teguh Suprayitno 9 May 2024
A squash farmer next to his crops.

Bangladeshi farmers find zucchini’s high yields & low costs palatable

Farhana Parvin 9 May 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

Pro-business parties accused of holding back Indonesia’s Indigenous rights bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 May 2024
Agribusiness Rush in the MATOPIBA Region.

EU law to reduce deforestation is on a knife’s edge, will leaders act? (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 25 Apr 2024
Nasidi holds up a water lettuce plant, which is often found in the Lenggang River.

Indigenous community fights to save its lands on Indonesia’s historic tin island

Moh. Tamimi 25 Apr 2024

Sierra Leone cacao project boosts livelihoods and buffers biodiversity

Spoorthy Raman 18 Apr 2024

Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenous land – investigation

Andrew Wasley, Aramís Castro, Elisângela Mendonça 18 Apr 2024

As fires ravaged Indonesia in 2023, some positive trends emerged, data show

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2024
A thin elderly man, the open neck of hard-worn brown t-shirt exposing bones in his chest, looks at the camera, the trunk of a palm tree, dried fronds, and simple houses with rusting corrugated iron roofs in the background. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

World Bank’s IFC under fire over alleged abuses at Liberian plantation it funded

Victoria Schneider 4 Apr 2024
Satellite image of wildfires in Quebec, Canada, in June, 2023.

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2024

Brazil’s Cerrado is main beneficiary of 2021 pledge to end deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Apr 2024
A farmer in a rice field.

Beneath the surface, a toxic tide threatens Bangladesh’s water lifeline

Mahadi Al Hasnat 28 Mar 2024
The PLTU 1 Indramayu, which previously used entirely coal, has now mixed it with biomass.

Biomass-burning coal plants leave the air even dirtier, Java communities say

Rabul Sawal 25 Mar 2024
Cows in a farm with trees.

New U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand ‘climate-smart’ acres

Sarah Derouin 25 Mar 2024
Deforestation for oil palm plantations in Sabah in 2012.

PalmWatch platform pushes for farm-to-fork traceability of palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Mar 2024

Deforestation from soy shows no sign of stopping in Cerrado, report says

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2024
Tea pickers in Kenya.

Climate change brews trouble for tea industry, but circular solutions await

Sean Mowbray 14 Mar 2024

Palm oil deforestation persists in Indonesia’s Leuser amid new mills, plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2024

Cacao is keeping this community in Ecuador away from deforestation

Liz Kimbrough, Timo Verguawen 11 Mar 2024

Java rice farmers suffer crop failure as copper mine pollutes local irrigation

Asad Asnawi 11 Mar 2024
Wildfire on Kangaroo Island, Australia.

Studies still uncovering true extent of 2019-20 Australia wildfire catastrophe

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 Mar 2024
The effect is most dangerous in peatland areas like Riau province and southern Borneo, where out-of-control wildfires cause environmental destruction, excess deaths and economic losses in the billions of dollars.

Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

Suryadi 6 Mar 2024

Ten years since anti-deforestation pledge, corporate world still not doing enough

Maxwell Radwin 6 Mar 2024

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