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Strongest drought in 25 years hits Bolivia

Miriam Telma Jemio 3 Oct 2016
Young boys labor outside a saw mill in the town of Njoro in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Photo by David Njagi

Youth, women, indigenous group pay the price of logging in Kenya

David Njagi 16 Sep 2016
Part of the Green Fuel ethanol plant in Chisumbanje, Zimbabwe. Photo by Kenneth Matimaire.

Amid epic drought, villagers bitter over Zimbabwean ethanol plant

Andrew Mambondiyani 28 Jul 2016

Study: Drought impedes tree growth, shuts down Amazon carbon sink

Claire Asher 21 Jul 2016

NASA images show the Amazon could be facing an intense wildfire season this year

Mike Gaworecki 15 Jul 2016

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Sue Branford 13 Jul 2016
Greenpeace protesting against a company's palm oil policy. Courtesy of Greenpeace

10 reasons to be optimistic for forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2016

An improbable future for Nicaragua’s inter-oceanic canal

Adam Stein, Hector Castaneda, Karen Masters 25 May 2016

Haze-stricken Malaysia proposes drastic new firefighting measures

Mongabay Haze Beat 29 Apr 2016

Haze returns to Kuala Lumpur – but not because of Indonesian fires

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Apr 2016

Brazil’s Cerrado region: A new tropical deforestation hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 8 Apr 2016
High security fence at the Marange diamond fields. Security is tight but poverty in nearby communities drives many to attempt to break in and pan for diamonds illegally. Those caught risk beatings and torture by government and mine security forces. Photo by Andrew Mambondiyani.

Abuse, displacement, pollution: the legacy of Zimbabwe’s Marange diamonds

Andrew Mambondiyani 15 Mar 2016

Bolivia’s second largest lake disappears, due to desertification and contamination

Aldo Orellana López 15 Feb 2016

Peruvian Amazon will get wetter and experience more severe floods, threatening wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 11 Feb 2016

Widespread death of evergreens predicted in American Southwest

Mike Gaworecki 20 Jan 2016

California’s ongoing drought threatens nearly 60 million large trees

Mike Gaworecki 30 Dec 2015

Amazon rainforests could transition to savannah-like states in response to climate change, new study predicts

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2015

El Niño vs. the Amazon: researchers worry Brazil is not prepared

Ethan Harfenist 16 Dec 2015

There have been more than 11,000 fires in just one region of the Brazilian Amazon this year

Mike Gaworecki 5 Nov 2015

More drought, floods predicted for the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 14 Oct 2015

NASA photo shows New Guinea going up in flames

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2015

Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains at a 500-year low

Mike Gaworecki 2 Oct 2015

U.S. Central Plains and Southwest will likely face apocalyptic drought

Jeremy Hance 12 Feb 2015

Pollution from fossil fuels decreased rainfall in Central America

Jeremy Hance 10 Feb 2015

How termites hold back the desert

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2015

Changing California forests may help us prepare for the future

Mike Gaworecki 21 Jan 2015

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2014

Amazon rainforest is getting drier, confirms another study

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Oct 2014

Could California be facing a mega-drought?

Sonia Gandiaga 13 Oct 2014

Indonesia’s forests so damaged they burn whether or not there’s drought

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Aug 2014

Climate-linked drought cutting forests’ carbon-storing ability

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2014

Congo rainforest losing its greenness, finds NASA

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Apr 2014

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