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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
A whale shark in Mexico. Image by MarAlliance2018 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Ecuador to announce creation of Hermandad Marine Reserve off Galapagos (commentary)

President Guillermo Lasso 13 Jan 2022

Analysts point to logging and mining to explain Solomon Islands unrest

Rachel Donald 13 Jan 2022

Indonesian research center for medicinal plants displaces incense harvesters

Barita News Lumbanbatu 13 Jan 2022

In untangling a taxonomic web, Sri Lankan researchers describe seven new jumping spiders

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Jan 2022

On agrobiodiversity, the Andes can teach the world much about crop conservation (commentary)

Barbara Wells 12 Jan 2022

Oil production or carbon neutrality? Why not both, Guyana says

Carinya Sharples 12 Jan 2022
Rainforest in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

As Indonesia retakes land from developers, conservation is an afterthought

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jan 2022

Guinea-Bissau turtle hatchery addresses unusual problem of too many eggs

Ricci Shryock 12 Jan 2022

Wild cat trade: Why the cheetah is not safe just yet (commentary)

Patricia Tricorache and Tomas Maule 12 Jan 2022

As its end looms, Cerrado tracker records 6-year deforestation high

Fernanda Wenzel 12 Jan 2022

In Panama, a tiny rainfrog named after Greta Thunberg endures

Liz Kimbrough 11 Jan 2022
Colombia

Coastal deforestation fuels more frequent storms in West Africa, study warns

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2022

Despite sanctions, U.S. companies still importing Myanmar teak, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 11 Jan 2022
A sewage outlet in Bangkok.

The thick of it: Delving into the neglected global impacts of human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 Jan 2022

Indonesia’s clean energy transition must start with clean rivers (commentary)

Warief Djajanto Basorie 11 Jan 2022

Foreign capital, blamed for depleting Indonesia’s fish stocks, is set to return

Basten Gokkon 11 Jan 2022

Philippine groups slam ‘cruel Christmas gift’ as open-pit mining ban is lifted

Bong S. Sarmiento 11 Jan 2022

‘I feel obligated to protect them’: A lifelong love affair with Guinea-Bissau’s turtles

Ricci Shryock 11 Jan 2022

In Bolivia, Indigenous groups fear the worst from dam project on Beni River

Iván Paredes Tamayo 11 Jan 2022

Colombia’s new anti-deforestation law provokes concern for small-scale farmers

Christina Noriega 10 Jan 2022
Mangrove forest Kenya

Community project helps Kenya aim for climate goals one mangrove tree at a time

Joyce Chimbi 10 Jan 2022
Asian giant tortoises

Wild release marks return of giant forest tortoises to Bangladesh hills

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2022

New atlas illuminates impact of artificial light in the ocean at night

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jan 2022

Fighting a Chile mining project with science: Q&A with biologist Maritza Sepúlveda

Michelle Carrere 10 Jan 2022

As blackouts loom, Indonesia’s energy crisis highlights its addiction to coal

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jan 2022

Cattle boom in Brazil’s Acre spells doom for Amazon rainforest, activists warn

Sarah Brown 7 Jan 2022

Not your ordinary houseplant: World’s tallest begonia found in Tibet

Liz Kimbrough 7 Jan 2022

Indonesia aims for sustainable fish farming with ‘aquaculture villages’

Luh De Suriyani, M Ambari 7 Jan 2022

‘Only the rains will stop it’: Bolivia forest fires hit protected areas

Yvette Sierra Praeli 7 Jan 2022
Satellite image of forest islands in the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in the Brazilian Amazon. Image credit: Maxar Technologies with processing by Mongabay.

Tom Lovejoy’s enduring legacy to the planet

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2022
Natural forest (left) versus an oil palm plantation (right) in Indonesia. Photo credits: Rhett A. Butler

Proposal could redefine palm oil-driven deforestation as reforestation in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2022

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