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Project works with farmers to restore Brazilian pine forests

Luís Patriani 13 Sep 2021
Image by Valdir Hobus via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation sweeps national park in Brazil as land speculators advance

Ana Ionova 10 Sep 2021

‘On the map’: App shines light on 5,000 ‘invisible’ families in Brazil’s Cerrado and beyond

Sarah Sax 10 Sep 2021
Forest fire in a degraded area in the Mapinguari National Park, in Lábrea, Amazonas state on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

After surge, Amazon deforestation slows for second straight month

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2021

Should tree plantations count toward reforestation goals? It’s complicated

Gianluca Cerullo 10 Sep 2021
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Indonesia terminates agreement with Norway on $1b REDD+ scheme

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Sep 2021

Indonesia lays out plan to rescue 15 lakes under pressure from human activity

Basten Gokkon 10 Sep 2021

As illegal logging route in Peru nears Brazil, Indigenous groups warn of calamity

Ana Ionova 9 Sep 2021

Environmental activist ‘well-hated’ by Myanmar junta is latest to be arrested

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Sep 2021
Logging concession in Indonesia. Photo credit: Yudhi Mahendra / Mighty Earth

Fomenting a “Perfect Storm” to push companies to change: Q&A with Glenn Hurowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2021
Flooded forest in the Amazon

We’ve crossed four of nine planetary boundaries. What does this mean?

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Sep 2021

‘Join us for the Amazon,’ Indigenous leaders tell IUCN in push for protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Sep 2021

Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Sep 2021

Brazil’s biofuel program sputters on weak emissions accounting

Sibélia Zanon 8 Sep 2021

Spike in deforestation detected in Papua concession linked to South Korea’s Moorim

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Sep 2021

New Philippine corpse flower is phallic-shaped, funky smelling — and nearly extinct

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Sep 2021

Jaguar stronghold in Brazil’s Iguaçu Park threatened by road reopening plan

Suzana Camargo 6 Sep 2021

Rich countries may be buying illegal gold that’s driving Amazon destruction

Juliana Ennes 3 Sep 2021

Vale told Brazil communities they were in danger. They say Vale wants their land

Isis Medeiros 3 Sep 2021

Palm oil firms in Papua hit back with lawsuit after permits are revoked

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Sep 2021

New map identifies risks, and potential sanctuaries, for Brazil’s diving duck

Carolina Pinheiro 2 Sep 2021

Scientists describe new tree frog in push to catalog Indonesia’s amphibians

Grace Dungey 2 Sep 2021

Italian firms flout EU rules to trade in illegal Myanmar timber, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 2 Sep 2021

New study offers latest proof that Brazilian Amazon is now a net CO2 source

Chris Arsenault 1 Sep 2021

North American paper industry merger sets off environmental alarms

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2021
Old growth trees in Olympic National Park. Image courtesy of Matt Shiffler Photography via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Old-growth forests of Pacific Northwest could be key to climate action

Justin Catanoso 1 Sep 2021

Mangrove restoration done right has clear economic, ecological benefits

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 31 Aug 2021

Grain production depends on ending deforestation, studies show

Maurício Angelo 30 Aug 2021

Next to India’s capital, a village looks to the past for its forest’s future

Manon Verchot, Sanshey Biswas 30 Aug 2021

Sustainable livelihood offers a lifeline to Philippines’ dying rice terraces

Karlston Lapniten 29 Aug 2021

Fires rage in Bolivia’s Chiquitania region

Iván Paredes Tamayo 28 Aug 2021

What makes mapping and monitoring zero-deforestation commitments effective?

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2021

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