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Helping the poor can protect forests too, Indonesian welfare program shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Aug 2020

We need a green life support plan (commentary)

Gabriel Thoumi, John Waugh 28 Jul 2020

Forest communities in Mexico suffer the blow of COVID-19 pandemic

Emiliano Rodríguez Mega 9 Jul 2020

Gold priced at $1,700 per ounce brings new gold rush to Brazilian Amazon

Fábio Nascimento (photos) and Gustavo Faleiros (text) 1 Jul 2020

‘I’ll never be ready for this port,’ locals say of Colombia’s proposed project

Kimberley Brown 8 Jun 2020

Trendy, cheap, and dirty: Fashion is a top global polluter

Liz Kimbrough 23 Apr 2020

80 percent of conservation careers negatively affected by COVID pandemic (commentary)

Kristi Foster 9 Apr 2020

Field research, interrupted: How the COVID-19 crisis is stalling science

Liz Kimbrough 9 Apr 2020

Keeping gorillas safe amid COVID-19 concerns

Liz Kimbrough 24 Mar 2020

Overworked, underpaid and lonely: Conservationists find a new community online

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2020

Response to one pandemic, COVID-19, has helped ease another: Air pollution

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2020

US economy will take biggest hit if we continue with business as usual: report

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2020

Mortgaging the future: Report details risks of resource-backed loans

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2020
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
Silhouette of man standing by oil palm tree on a plantation still belonging to local residents in Malen Chiefdom in Pujehun district of Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Industrial palm oil investors struggle to gain foothold in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 20 Sep 2019

National parks: Serving humanity’s well-being as much as nature’s

Jeremy Hance 25 Jun 2019

Global warming is exacerbating global economic inequality: Study

Mongabay.com 10 May 2019

Most communities not seeing promised oil palm payoff in Borneo, study finds

Loren Bell 6 May 2019

Hunting, fishing causing dramatic decline in Amazon river dolphins

Claire Asher 13 Jun 2018

The 101 on how global trade treaties came to threaten the environment

Jennifer Huizen 8 Sep 2016

Human impact on environment may be slowing down: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Aug 2016

How important is corporate social responsibility to building a green economy?

Mike Gaworecki 9 May 2016

Roads to ruin: Africa’s massive infrastructure expansions could have major consequences

John Cannon 25 Nov 2015

Rising global temperatures could shrink paychecks by almost one-fourth

Mike Gaworecki 19 Nov 2015

Indonesian villagers transform ailing forests into oasis of fruit

Sapariah Saturi 8 Sep 2015

Human impacts are ‘decoupling’ coral reef ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2015

Employing shame for environmental change

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2015

Norway sovereign fund drops coal, tar sands, gold-mining companies

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2015

Accounting for natural capital on financial exchanges

Sarah Friedman 26 Jan 2015

Green Climate Fund nears $7 billion after U.S. pledges $3 billion

Jeremy Hance 17 Nov 2014

Can we stop runaway global warming? ‘All we need is the will to change’

Jeremy Hance 3 Nov 2014

Scientific association calls on Nicaragua to scrap its Gran Canal

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2014

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