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Q&A with Sydney Possuelo, the most prominent specialist in isolated indigenous peoples in Brazil

Carolina Conti 13 Jun 2023
A Maluku fisherman shows his catch of skipjack tuna.

Indonesia looks into tuna farming to boost aquaculture, reduce overfishing

Basten Gokkon 13 Jun 2023
A purple sea cucumber.

Europe’s top science panel supports call for moratorium on deep-sea mining

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Jun 2023
An art installation by Saype portraying plastic pollution.

UN Paris meeting presses ahead with binding plastics treaty — U.S. resists

Charles Pekow 9 Jun 2023
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell briefing the press on the opening day of the conference.

U.N. climate chief calls for end to fossil fuels as talks head to Dubai

John Cannon 8 Jun 2023
Chiang Mai lawsuit

Citizens demand sustainable solution to haze crisis in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 6 Jun 2023
Student activists at the Picture of Future Festival in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Latest environmentalist arrest shocks Vietnam’s battered civil society

Mongabay.com 2 Jun 2023
Yellowfin tuna catch laid out on leaves.

As one Indian Ocean tuna stock faces collapse, nations scramble to save others

Malavika Vyawahare 29 May 2023
Immaculée Nyirahabimana, a farmer from Rwanda.

Women decision-makers can improve conservation and agriculture, study shows

Abdulkareem Mojeed 25 May 2023
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Financial downturn at Enviva could mean trouble for biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 25 May 2023

Illegal trawling ravages Tunisian seagrass meadows crucial for fish

Sara Manisera, Davide Mancini, Arianna Poletti 24 May 2023
Nguy Thi Khanh.

Early release for imprisoned climate activist as Vietnam aims for net zero goals

Mongabay.com 24 May 2023

World Bank: Brazil faces $317 billion in annual losses to Amazon deforestation

Sarah Brown 19 May 2023
Cleaning a beach in the Dominican Republic.

Sargassum surges in Mexico: From nuisance to new green industry?

Sandra Weiss 17 May 2023

Trapping holds back speed of bird recovery in a Sumatran forest, study shows

Basten Gokkon 11 May 2023

Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri

Basten Gokkon 4 May 2023

How will climate change affect Latin America? Scientists respond to IPCC report

Yvette Sierra Praeli 4 May 2023
A wild giant otter with a discarded single-use plastic bottle.

U.N. parties are worlds apart on plastics treaty solutions

Charles Pekow 27 Apr 2023
Nevada lithium battery

Scramble for clean energy metals confronted by activist calls to respect Indigenous rights

Sarah Sax 21 Apr 2023
Oil production vessel Liza Destiny 200 km offshore of Guyana in the Stabroek block. Image via www.oilnow.gy.

Guyana gets ‘Drilled’: Weighing South America’s latest oil boom with Amy Westervelt

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Apr 2023

To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2023
An illustration of a hispid hare

Rare hispid hares feel the heat from Nepal’s tiger conservation measures

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Apr 2023
Jatropha curcas trees in Hawai‘i.

Jatropha: The biofuel that bombed seeks a path to redemption

Sean Mowbray 6 Apr 2023

Chile communities defy the desert by capturing increasingly scarce water

Michelle Carrere 4 Apr 2023

In central Brazil, mining company ignores Quilombola concerns over gold project

Sandra Silva, from The Mining Observatory 29 Mar 2023
Harvested sugarcane in Karnataka, India.

A liquid biofuels primer: Carbon-cutting hopes vs. real-world impacts

Sean Mowbray 20 Mar 2023

Brazil’s plan to issue credits for recycling gets a boost, but experts call for more

Marina Martinez 20 Mar 2023

Rule change sees foreign investors back in Indonesia’s fisheries scene

Basten Gokkon 10 Mar 2023

As Indonesia’s new capital takes shape, risks to wider Borneo come into focus

Basten Gokkon 8 Mar 2023
A silky shark.

As U.N. members clinch historic high seas biodiversity treaty, what’s in it?

Elizabeth Fitt 8 Mar 2023

Will new bottom trawling rules do enough to protect South Pacific seamounts?

Edward Carver 7 Mar 2023

Indonesian fisheries fee change promises more revenue, but likely also more violations

Basten Gokkon 4 Mar 2023

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