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Tiremakers ready to roll with EUDR, but repeated delays frustrate industry

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 May 2026
Indonesian rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Forests, fires and fragile gains: Interview with WRI’s Elizabeth Goldman

David Akana 8 May 2026
Burned-over forest in the Brazilian state of Acre, one of the epicenters of deforestation in the Amazon.

Deforestation and warming could push Amazon to tipping point by 2040s: Study

Sean Mowbray 7 May 2026
Cattle walk along an illegally burnt deforested area near Novo Progresso, in the northern Brazilian state of Para. Image by AP Photo / Andre Penner.

Despite restrictions, forest loss continued on Ituna land, home to isolated people

Aimee Gabay 5 May 2026
Armed police and military forces called by a Canadian mining company carry out operations in Sigchos

New report reveals how environmental crime threatens Amazonian communities

Aimee Gabay 30 Apr 2026
The Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

A “good year” for forests changes less than it seems

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Apr 2026

Tropical forest loss falls in 2025, but world still off track on deforestation goals

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2026

AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas

Constance Malleret 24 Apr 2026
BR-319’s “midsection” has remained unpaved since the highway’s inauguration in 1976. Now, the road’s rebuilding is the subject of one of Brazil’s fiercest environmental debates in recent times. Image courtesy of DNIT.

Brazil taps legal loophole to issue bids for Amazon ‘tipping point’ road

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Apr 2026

EU deforestation law nudges timber trade, Indonesia probe shows, but risks persist

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Apr 2026
Misty morning in Borneo. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

10 forces that could reshape the future of the world’s forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Apr 2026
Pista Velha mining site in the Baú Indigenous Territory captured during an overflight on July 19, 2025. Image courtesy of the Xingu+ Network.

Brazil: Satellites expose rampant gold mining expansion on Indigenous Kayapó land

Shanna Hanbury 15 Apr 2026

As EU-Mercosur agreement goes into effect, environmentalists raise red flags

Ramana Rech 8 Apr 2026
The Kapawi River, soon to be the first “solar river” in the Amazon, is a lifeline for more than 1,000 Indigenous peoples and is home to endangered pink river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis). Image by Andrés Cornejo.

Indigenous governance key to protecting Amazon Basin connectivity, experts say

Constance Malleret 7 Apr 2026
Nickel mining on Manuran Island. Image courtesy of Auriga Nusantara.

Indonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025, reversing years of decline

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Apr 2026
Portrait of Jacqueline Flores. Image by Heinz Plengue Pardo. Design by Emilie Languedoc.

As traditional forest governance erodes in Peru, ‘ghost permits’ fill the vacuum

Michele Calamaio 30 Mar 2026

Grasslands and wetlands are being lost to agriculture four times faster than forests

Shanna Hanbury 30 Mar 2026

‘We do not have time’: Interview with MEP Delara Burkhardt on the EUDR’s second delay

Ashoka Mukpo 11 Mar 2026

Colombia’s coffee industry well placed but wary as EU deforestation rule looms

Mie Hoejris Dahl 4 Mar 2026
A fisherman is silhouetted as he casts his net into the Tapajos River in Santarem, Para state, 2020.

Concern among Indigenous leaders, relief for a few, as Amazon Soy Moratorium falters

Rubens Valente 3 Mar 2026

The cost of compliance with the EUDR will limit its impact on reducing deforestation (commentary)

Bjørn Rask Thomsen, Daniel Nepstad 23 Feb 2026

Sumatra province plan to permit ‘community’ mines alarms civil society

Jaka Hendra Baittri 20 Feb 2026
A section of the Amazon rainforest stands next to soy fields in Belterra, Para state, Brazil, on Nov. 30, 2019. Image by AP Photo/Leo Correa.

Amazon deforestation may rise 30% as major traders exit historic soy pact

Fernanda Wenzel 2 Feb 2026
Drained, cleared, and burned peat forest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

The fair costs for forest rehabilitation in Indonesia (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 2 Feb 2026
Salam came here from North Sulawesi 10 years ago and now has a farm of 1,200 peppercorn trees.

Worries grow for Sulawesi farmers as nickel mining company plans expansion

Richard Kent 29 Jan 2026
Papuan Indigenous people and activists hold a protest against Merauke Food Estate in front of the Defense Ministry office in Jakarta in 2024.

Indonesia fast-tracks final permit for Papua rice megaproject without Indigenous consent

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jan 2026
A man holds a chicken as he walks on log used as a makeshift bridge at a village affected by a flash flood in Batang Toru, Dec. 1.

Indonesia revokes forest and mine permits over role in deadly Sumatra landslides

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Jan 2026
Flood survivors use logs to cross a river in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on Dec. 2, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara.

Indonesia sues 6 companies over alleged links to deadly floods & landslides

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Jan 2026
Loading a barge with iron ore from Simandou. Image by Paul Kagame via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Hopes and fears as Guinea exports iron ore from Simandou mines

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jan 2026
A man inspects logs near several wood pellet production companies in Gorontalo province, October 2024.

After years of progress, Indonesia risks ‘tragedy’ of a deforestation spike

Jeff Hutton 14 Jan 2026
After burning off the mercury, a relatively pure piece of gold remains. Image by Thomas Graham for Mongabay.

Turning the Amazon’s toxic gold mine waste liability into economic opportunity (analysis)

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Jan 2026
In this aerial photo taken using a drone, people are seen making their way on a muddy road at a village affected by a flash flood in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. Photo credit: AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara

After Cyclone Senyar, Indonesia probes whether development amplified scale of disaster

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jan 2026

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