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Aerial view showing a massive ring of thousands of whole trees at Enviva’s Sampson County, North Carolina

Enviva, the world’s largest biomass energy company, is near collapse

Justin Catanoso 20 Nov 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Jurisdictional REDD+ ready to fund forest-positive, socially-inclusive development in the Amazon and beyond (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 20 Nov 2023
Indigenous forest guardians Laércio Guajajara and Paulo Paulino Guajajara.

End of impunity for Indigenous killings in sight for Brazil’s Guajajara

Karla Mendes 20 Nov 2023
Laércio Guajajara.

The trial that could change the fate of the Guajajara

Ingrid Barros, Karla Mendes 20 Nov 2023
Fossils fuels are emblematic of a “take-make-waste” economic model that is pushing humanity beyond safe limits, experts say.

Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say

Sean Mowbray 16 Nov 2023
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

French banks accused of money laundering linked to Amazon deforestation

Dimitri Selibas 16 Nov 2023

New platform offers toolkit for companies to prove their eco claims

Claudia Geib 16 Nov 2023
Posito Daom, a Pala'wan, pauses on his descent to the lowlands to sell chayote cultivated using the no-till method, a sustainable practice that avoids turning over and disturbing the soil, according to studies.

Indigenous farmers’ hard work protects a Philippine hotspot, but goes overlooked

Keith Anthony Fabro 16 Nov 2023
Forest in British Columbia. Photo: Rhett A. Butler

Calls for FSC to drop Canada’s Paper Excellence over ties to deforester

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2023
Cattle pastures and forest in San Miguelito, Bolivia, during 2019. Credit: Rhett A. Butler.

Why has deforestation reached record levels in Bolivia? (commentary)

Jonathan Reynolds 15 Nov 2023
Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

As Colombia’s coca economy crashes, new opportunities — and threats — arise

Mie Hoejris Dahl 15 Nov 2023
A young boy tries to help a fallen donkey stand during a severe drought that struck the Horn of Africa.

Beyond Climate: Fossil fuels rapidly eroding Earth’s ‘safe operating space’

Sean Mowbray 15 Nov 2023
Aerial view of the NGOWP team's mekoro along the Cuando River.

New study pushes for protection of one of Africa’s ‘least understood treasures’

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2023
Rainforest and an oil palm plantation in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Forests hold massive carbon storage potential — if we cut emissions

Liz Kimbrough 14 Nov 2023
Workers clean an oil spill that has polluted a beach on Salamina Island, Greece.

Beyond climate: Oil, gas and coal are destabilizing all 9 planetary boundaries

Sean Mowbray 14 Nov 2023
An anonymous pipeline-affected person in Tanzania, January 2022.

Disturbing graves is latest violation attributed to East African oil pipeline

Justin Catanoso 14 Nov 2023

Can blockchain clean up the gold industry in Brazil and across the globe?

Charlie Espinosa, Charles Lyons 14 Nov 2023

How the U.S. financial system props up illegal logging and mining

Maxwell Radwin 14 Nov 2023

What does oil palm require to reach international markets?

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Nov 2023
Oil palm plantation workers wait for the truck to take them to work.

Palm oil cultivation in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Nov 2023
Planet satellite image of the Anavilhanas Archipelago in the Rio Negro in Brazil in October 2023 during a severe drought. Courtesy of Planet.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon falls 22% in 2023

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Nov 2023
Brazilian environment ministry's IBAMA carryinh out an operation to combat the illegal use of pesticides in western Bahia's Cerrado in 2018.

Study links pesticides to child cancer deaths in Brazilian Amazon & Cerrado

Shi En Kim 10 Nov 2023
A volunteer firefighter from the Power of Mama group.

In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew

Mongabay Haze Beat 10 Nov 2023

Amazon deforestation has a regional, not just local impact: study

Maxwell Radwin 10 Nov 2023

‘We just want to be left in peace’: In Brazil’s Amazon, soy ambitions loom over Indigenous land

Ana Ionova 9 Nov 2023
Oil palm fruit collection in a plantation.

Oil palm in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan-Amazon: Swine and poultry – Adding value to farm production

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Nov 2023
Ogiek recovering belongings from a house demolished by Kenya Forest Service officers. Image courtesy OPDP.

Kenyan government again evicts Ogiek communities from Mau Forest

Caroline Chebet 8 Nov 2023

Lifted sanctions on gold, oil could slow conservation efforts in Venezuela

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2023
16 February, 2023 - Sal Sophea Peanich economic land concession, Stung Treng Province (Cambodia). A timber processing facility and depot within the Sal Sophea Peanich economic land concession (8,645 hectares) that was issued in August 2005 as a rubber plantation. Satellite imagery reveals that clearing of a forested section adjacent to the depot started around October 2021. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Calls grow to repurpose land squandered in Cambodia’s concession policy

Gerald Flynn 8 Nov 2023

Deforestation continues in Kenya’s largest water capturing forest, satellites show

Liz Kimbrough 7 Nov 2023

Forest elephants are the ‘glue’ holding Congo rainforests together

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Nov 2023

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