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Fines for Amazon fires may go to indigenous communities under new bill

Mônica Nunes 17 Jan 2020

Belo Monte boondoggle: Brazil’s biggest, costliest dam may be unviable

Tiffany Higgins 17 Jan 2020

Conflict in the Chico Mendes Reserve threatens this pioneering Amazonian project

Naira Hofmeister 16 Jan 2020

A new dawn: The story of deforestation in the next decade must be different to the last (commentary)

Bastien Sachet 16 Jan 2020

Communities in Brazilian Cerrado besieged by global demand for soy

Sarah Sax, Maurício Angelo 13 Jan 2020
Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Activists seek purge after Indonesia court rules forest plantations illegal

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2020
Deforestation in Novo Progresso in the state of Para

Forest loss moves swiftly once 50% deforestation ‘tipping point’ reached

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 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

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: 2020 could see revived Amazon mining assault — part two

Sue Branford, Thais Borges 31 Dec 2019

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: 2019 brings death by 1,000 cuts to Amazon — part one

Sue Branford, Thais Borges 30 Dec 2019
Forest canopy in Volcano on the big island of Hawaii. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests in 2020: 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

Amazon’s Mura indigenous group demands input over giant mining project

Mauricio Torres, Sue Branford, Thais Borges 27 Dec 2019

Mega-mining project slated for Brazilian Amazon sparks controversy

Thais Borges, Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 26 Dec 2019

‘Tainted timber’ from Myanmar widely used in yachts seized in the Netherlands

Malavika Vyawahare 25 Dec 2019
Camvert has moved to establish a nursery in anticipation of logging FMU 0925. Image courtesy John Takang.

NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon

Eugene N. Nforngwa 25 Dec 2019

EU/Chinese soy consumption linked to species impacts in Brazilian Cerrado: study

Sarah Sax 24 Dec 2019

Antonio Donato Nobre: “The forest is sick and losing its carbon-sequestration capacity”

Sibélia Zanon 23 Dec 2019

Brazil on the precipice: from environmental leader to despoiler (2010-2020)

Sue Branford, Thais Borges 23 Dec 2019

‘The tipping point is here, it is now,’ top Amazon scientists warn

Shanna Hanbury 20 Dec 2019

Paris accord ‘impossible to implement’ if tropical forest loss not stopped

Taran Volckhausen 19 Dec 2019
Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2019

Murders of indigenous leaders in Brazilian Amazon hits highest level in two decades

Shanna Hanbury 14 Dec 2019

COP25: Brazil’s official presence diverges widely from its public persona

Camila Nobrega 13 Dec 2019

Indonesia to revive idle shrimp farms to boost fisheries and save mangroves

Basten Gokkon 13 Dec 2019

Analysis: The Tanah Merah project is a bellwether for Jokowi’s permit review

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 11 Dec 2019

Revealed: Government officials say permits for mega-plantation in Papua were falsified

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 10 Dec 2019

Evidence ‘unfounded’ against NGO volunteers accused of setting Amazon fires

Shanna Hanbury 9 Dec 2019

In Indonesia, a tourism village holds off a nickel mine — for now

Ian Morse 8 Dec 2019
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia zoning plan hurts fishers, favors coal and oil, activists say

Basten Gokkon 4 Dec 2019

‘Everything is dying’: Q&A with Brazilian indigenous leader Alessandra Munduruku

Camila Nobrega 27 Nov 2019

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