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Smoke rising from smoldering peatland in PT Raja Garuda Mas Sejati. Photo courtesy of Greenpeace Media Library.

Indonesian peat restoration has more benefits than it costs, study finds

Basten Gokkon 15 Dec 2021

Hold the tree planting: Protect ecosystems first for maximum carbon storage, study says

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Dec 2021

An unlikely safari in Brazil is helping save the Pantanal’s jaguars

Daniel Nunes Gonçalves 18 Nov 2021

Legal challenge to South Africa mine expansion looks to set new landmark

Victoria Schneider 12 Nov 2021
primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, by John C. Cannon/Mongabay

Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about

John Cannon 9 Nov 2021

Under Bolsonaro, Indigenous Yanomami see surge in child malnutrition deaths

Rafael Oliveira/Agência Pública 8 Nov 2021

Brazil’s Indigenous Xavante strangled by agribusiness, slammed by COVID-19

Fábio Zuker/InfoAmazonia, Tatiana Merlino/O Joio e o Trigo 4 Nov 2021

Indigenous guides warn of repercussions if we don’t fix our relationship with nature

Tracy L. Barnett; Hernán Vilchez 28 Oct 2021

‘Unequal exchange’ for Brazil community in shadow of Anglo American mine

Shanna Hanbury 22 Oct 2021

An environmental ‘catastrophe’ in Southern Africa lingers with few answers

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Sep 2021

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

Juliana Ennes 3 Sep 2021
Pirogues on the Kasai River with forests on the far bank. Image by Terese Hart via Flickr.

Toxic spill at Angola diamond mine pollutes Congo River tributary in DRC

Sylvain-Gauthier Kabemba 1 Sep 2021

Half of burned forests across Latin America don’t survive, study finds

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 20 Aug 2021

End of deforestation tracker for Brazil’s Cerrado an ‘incalculable loss’

Fernanda Wenzel 19 Aug 2021
Growing agave in Mexico

Mexico devises revolutionary method to reverse semiarid land degradation

Sue Branford 11 Aug 2021

Cerrado desertification: Savanna could collapse within 30 years, says study

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Jul 2021

Tin mines close in on an Indonesian hamlet still clinging to nature

Taufik Wijaya 16 Jun 2021

Illegal miners fire shots, burn homes in Munduruku Indigenous Reserve

Ana Ionova 28 May 2021

Specter of tailings disaster looms after spill at Canadian firm’s Brazil mine

Maurício Angelo 27 May 2021

As Brazil’s military pulls out of the Amazon, its legacy is in question

Caio de Freitas Paes 8 Apr 2021

Persistence of slave labor exposes lawlessness of Amazon gold mines

Maurício Angelo 4 Mar 2021

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020

Brazilian dry forests are chronically degraded even in non-deforested areas

Meghie Rodrigues 1 Oct 2020

Study finds a Mexico-sized swath of intact land lost to human pressure

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Sep 2020

Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse

Maurício Angelo 19 Aug 2020

For Indonesia’s Javan deer, non-protected areas play key conservation role

Basten Gokkon 20 Feb 2020

Jakarta floods spark renewed calls for stronger environmental protection

Basten Gokkon 7 Jan 2020

Environmental damage exacerbates Jakarta flooding amid record rainfall

Basten Gokkon 2 Jan 2020
The sun rises over Kutupalong, the world's largest settlement built on cleared forest land. Photo by Kaamil Ahmed/Mongabay.

Regreening a barren Rohingya refugee camp on Myanmar’s border

Kaamil Ahmed 11 Jun 2019

‘Nothing was left’: Flash floods, landslides hit Indonesia’s Papua region

Asrida Elisabeth, Della Syahni, Lusia Arumingtyas 21 Mar 2019

Conservation groups press world leaders to protect 30% of the planet

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2019

Environmental degradation exacerbates Indonesia flooding, landslides

Wahyu Chandra 30 Jan 2019

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