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Global Forest Watch forest cover change alerts near Porto Velho in the State of Rondônia, Brazil in 2022.

Amazon deforestation is off to the fastest start to a year since 2008

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2022

Satellites show deforestation surging in Indonesia’s Tesso Nilo National Park

Zamzami, Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Jun 2022

New near-real-time tool reveals Earth’s land cover in more detail than ever before

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2022

That ‘killer’ spider story you read online? Fake news, most probably

Cassie Freund 20 May 2022
A spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), also known as the Andean bear.

Researchers compile largest-ever photo database of Amazon wildlife

Liz Kimbrough 20 May 2022
Forest fire in a deforested area in an undesignated public forest in Altamira, Pará on Jul 31, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga/Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation surges in April

Mongabay.com 6 May 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022
A marine researcher launching a drone for ocean color surveys

Where satellites come up short, drones can fill in a picture of our oceans

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Apr 2022

Deforestation on the rise as poverty soars in Nigeria

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Mar 2022

Multiyear ice thinner than thought as Arctic sea ice reaches winter max: Studies

Alec Luhn 22 Mar 2022

Tropical deforestation emitting far more carbon than previously thought: Study

John Cannon 15 Mar 2022
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching -- the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon -- in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

Amazon deforestation starts 2022 on the fastest pace in 14 years

Mongabay.com 15 Mar 2022
Logging road

Chasing Deforestation

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2022

For fire-ravaged northern Thailand, there’s now an app to battle the blaze

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 28 Feb 2022
Amazon rainforest in Brazil

January deforestation in the Amazon highest in 14 years

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2022

Scientists’ secret weapon to monitor the Southern Ocean? Elephant seals

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2022

Tech revolution holds world of promise for conservation, but challenges persist

Caitlin Looby 2 Feb 2022

As its end looms, Cerrado tracker records 6-year deforestation high

Fernanda Wenzel 12 Jan 2022

Cattle boom in Brazil’s Acre spells doom for Amazon rainforest, activists warn

Sarah Brown 7 Jan 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

The year in rainforests 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 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
Zuzana Burivalova. Photo credit: Tobias Corts

Bioacoustics researcher wins top award for positive impact toward solving global challenges

Erik Hoffner 2 Dec 2021

For South Africa’s dwindling renosterveld, there’s now a ‘panic button’ app

Ryan Truscott 25 Nov 2021
Bolivia

With La Niña conditions back, is it good news for tropical forests?

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2021
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation unexpectedly surges 22% to highest level since 2006

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Nov 2021
NASA Landsat image showing fishbone deforestation along roads in Sao Joao da Baliza, Roraima, Brazil in 2021.

The Amazon has highest October forest loss since at least 2007

Mongabay.com 12 Nov 2021

From the ocean floor, a startup livestreams the rise of coral cities

Claire Turrell 10 Nov 2021

In Peru’s Amazon, deforestation and crime sweep through Indigenous communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Nov 2021
Deforestation in Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

What countries are leaders in reducing deforestation? Which are not?

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Nov 2021

Study shows ‘encouraging’ results of China’s bid to protect coastal wetlands

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Nov 2021
Mills linked to a refinery. Courtesy of palmoil.io

Data-driven platform looks to clear up fog of palm oil traceability

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2021

Indigenous Bolivians take the defense of their land into their own hands

Yvette Sierra Praeli 26 Oct 2021

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