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‘Impact assessments need a shake-up’: Q&A with Georgine Kengne & Morgan Hauptfleisch

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2023
Blacktip sharks and remoras.

Study: Paying fishers to ease off sharks and rays is cost-effective conservation

Cassie Freund 6 Feb 2023
Parmet with his youngest son, Zaidimu.

Extreme heat takes a toll on tropical countries’ economies

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 13 Jan 2023
Shanties stand along the bank of Buriganga River.

In Bangladesh, Ecologically Critical Areas exist only on paper

Abu Siddique 16 Dec 2022
A Gbaya farmer in Mbanti-Mbang, on land left unscathed by the agro-industrial project / Image © Yannick Kenné.

To replace Western food imports, Cameroon gives community lands to ‘no-name’ agro-industry

Yannick Kenné 1 Dec 2022

Indonesia’s grand EV plans hinge on a ‘green’ industrial park that likely isn’t

Justin Jin Soong Liew and Chun Sheng Goh 15 Nov 2022
Smoke from a factory chimney.

Carbon offsets: A key tool for climate action, or a license to emit?

Ian Morse 4 Nov 2022
Person holding cardboard sign saying Stop EACOP", concealing lower half of their face. Photothèque AT via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

As banks fund oil pipeline, campaigners question their environmental pledges

Thomas Lewton 1 Nov 2022
Panama restricts information on sanctioned boats, evading transparency

Panama restricts information on sanctioned boats, evading transparency

Mary Triny Zea, Michelle Carrere 14 Oct 2022
Panama: A ‘flag of convenience’ for illegal fishing and lack of control at sea

Panama: A ‘flag of convenience’ for illegal fishing and lack of control at sea

Mary Triny Zea, Michelle Carrere 13 Oct 2022
Mirnawati in front of the ancient Semokan Ruak mosque

Indonesian beauty queen founds Indigenous coffee brand in her native Lombok

Fathul Rakhman 13 Oct 2022
The Umngot River

Better management of shared waterways could benefit economy in Bangladesh, India

Abu Siddique 30 Sep 2022
Women in a garment factory in Bangladesh.

Bangladeshi industries explore renewables as power crisis looms

Abu Siddique 26 Sep 2022
Farmers with freshly harvested paddy.

Lack of finance prevents Bangladesh farmers from diversifying their rice crops

Abu Siddique 31 Aug 2022
Soy and corn make up 88% of Brazil’s grain production

Bad weather knocks down Brazil’s grain production as ‘exhaustively forewarned’

Shanna Hanbury 17 Aug 2022
Residents of Satkhira's coastal communities.

As stronger storms hit Bangladesh farmers, banks are climate collateral damage

Maksuda Aziz 15 Aug 2022
Farmers harvesting wheat in Ukraine in the 1990s.

Did Wall Street play a role in this year’s wheat price crisis?

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Jul 2022

Draining tropical peatlands for oil palms isn’t just bad — it’s unnecessary, study shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2022

Zoo animals not immune to Sri Lanka’s economic rout as food prices surge

Malaka Rodrigo 14 Jun 2022
A coffee seedling nursery at Yayu, with forest in background.

Coal mining threatens Ethiopia’s ancient coffee forest

Kaleab Girma 14 Jun 2022
A migrant fisherman in Thailand.

Wage-related abuses in fishing industry exacerbated by pandemic response

Annelise Giseburt 12 May 2022
A group of traditional fishermen in small boats catching fish in the waters of Maluku.

Indonesia cancels fisheries infrastructure projects in Maluku region amid lack of funds

Nurdin Tubaka 11 May 2022

Sri Lanka’s environmentalists brace for economic meltdown’s toll on nature

Malaka Rodrigo 3 May 2022

Community empowerment and forest conservation grow from the galip nut in Papua New Guinea

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Apr 2022

Small farmers take a stand for one of Dakar’s last urban woodlands

Francesco De Augustinis 13 Apr 2022
Coal mining in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesia’s gasification plans could be costly for budget and environment

Nithin Coca 30 Mar 2022

Fate of Indonesian rainforest the size of Belgium hangs in the balance (commentary)

Sam Lawson 17 Mar 2022

Banning high-deforestation palm oil has limited impact on saving forests: Study

Loren Bell 3 Mar 2022
Waorani women

Ecuador’s top court rules for stronger land rights for Indigenous communities

Kimberley Brown 9 Feb 2022
Netty Joyce Mukanganise tends her tobacco-curing barn. Image by Tonderayi Mukeredzi for Mongabay.

Zimbabwe’s forests go up in smoke to feed its tobacco habit

Tonderayi Mukeredzi 3 Feb 2022

Have we reached peak palm oil? (commentary)

Mark Gregory 2 Feb 2022
Protestors with signs protesting EACOP, ReconAfrica projects. Image courtesy 350.org

Total’s oil pipeline gets go-ahead from Ugandan MPs despite secret terms

Thomas Lewton 14 Jan 2022

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