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Kapinawá: the 50 year fight for sacred territory in the Catimbau Valley

Xavier Bartaburu (words and photos) & Rafael Martins (video and photos) 13 Feb 2024
Recently cleared land for an oil palm plantation in Peru.

Critics decry controversial bill that loosens deforestation restrictions in Peru

Aimee Gabay 9 Feb 2024

Brazil’s environmental David fights Congress’s agribusiness Goliath: Interview with Nilto Tatto

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Feb 2024

Annual South Pacific fisheries meeting nets bottom trawling controversy

Edward Carver 8 Feb 2024

Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population

Basten Gokkon 8 Feb 2024
A farmer cuts cacao pods from the tree in Colombia.

New agrarian courts in Colombia raise hopes for end to land conflicts

Aimee Gabay 7 Feb 2024
A woman is laying leather out to dry in Bangladesh.

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather

Sean Mowbray 6 Feb 2024

In the Brazilian outback, the half-century Kapinawá struggle for sacred ground

Xavier Bartaburu 5 Feb 2024
Tuna and bycatch on a purse seiner in East Pacific Ocean.

Critics push for more transparency at RFMOs that govern high seas fishing

Edward Carver 31 Jan 2024

Can bioplastics shape a greener future?

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Mike DiGirolamo 30 Jan 2024

Indonesia invites Turkish investors to develop tuna farms in Papua

Basten Gokkon 30 Jan 2024
The new 348,140-hectare (860,272-acre) Sierra Tecuani Biosphere Reserve in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Image by Joaquín Núñez Medrano.

Mexico announces 20 new protected areas despite budget cuts

Aimee Gabay 25 Jan 2024
One of Global Green's new mining sites in Preah Vihear province that sits inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Sanctioned timber baron wins new mining concessions in Cambodia’s Prey Lang

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 23 Jan 2024
People holding wood pellets.

Study: Burning wood pellets for energy endangers local communities’ health

Justin Catanoso 18 Jan 2024
Bangkok

Civil-backed proposal seeks to address root causes of Thailand’s choking haze

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jan 2024
Earth from the International Space Station, showing nighttime lights over Japan on November 6, 2017. The lights are concentrated around three of the country’s major cities: Tokyo (top), Nagoya (middle), and Osaka (bottom). Image courtesy of NASA.

‘Not the End of the World’ book assumptions & omissions spark debate

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Jan 2024
A coral reef and its residents in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Image ©Greg Asner/divephoto.org.

2023’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Ana Spalding, David Obura, Diva Amon, Minna Epps, Rhett Bennett, U. Rashid Sumaila 16 Jan 2024

Nine countries sign global pact to protect endangered river dolphins

Astrid Arellano 15 Jan 2024
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesia offers lobster larvae exports to Vietnam in exchange for investment

Basten Gokkon 13 Jan 2024
Fishing boats in Seno de Última Esperanza (Last Hope Sound), in southern Chile. Image by Robert Nunn via Flickr.

Chile again rejects Constitution rewrite; experts say no big loss for environment

Boris van der Spek 9 Jan 2024
An adult and juvenile gharial on a riverbank.

Conservation ‘setback’ looms as Nepal opens protected areas to hydropower projects

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Jan 2024
Indigenous Borana women farmers and their children in Ethiopia.

‘Indigenous’ and ‘local’ shouldn’t be conflated: Q&A with Indigenous leader Sara Olsvig

Alec Luhn 4 Jan 2024

Finance and support are key to fishers adopting eco-friendly gear, study shows

Basten Gokkon 3 Jan 2024
Rubber duckies

As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two

Alden Wicker 2 Jan 2024
Woodpecker Sitting in Tree in Forest

For forests, COP28 was better than expected, but worse than needed

Alec Luhn 28 Dec 2023
Attendees from Brazil pose during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 5, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Image by COP28 / Mahmoud Khaled via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed).

Little achieved for Indigenous groups at U.N. climate summit, delegates say

Dimitri Selibas 19 Dec 2023
A school of hammerhead sharks.

‘Shark dust’ helps researchers ID threatened species in Indonesia fish trade

Cassie Freund 19 Dec 2023

Indonesia delays enforcement of widely panned fisheries policy

Basten Gokkon 17 Dec 2023
A blue monkey in Virunga National Park, DRC.

COP28 cements goal to halt forest loss in 7 years, but where’s the money?

Alec Luhn 15 Dec 2023
An Indigenous person in a boat.

Vast new MPAs are PNG’s first to be co-managed by Indigenous communities

Ian Morse 14 Dec 2023
Melting ice.

Earth on ‘devastating trajectory’ to global tipping points. But there’s hope.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Dec 2023
The Xingu River in the Amazonian state of Pará. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto / Amazon Watch.

Mining company Belo Sun sues environmental defenders in intimidation tactic, NGOs say

Aimee Gabay 12 Dec 2023

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