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Freight train project that railroads Indigenous rights still on track

Jennifer Ann Thomas 16 Mar 2021

First female leader signals new day for WTO (commentary)

Isabel Jarrett 10 Mar 2021

Dutch to limit forest biomass subsidies, possibly signaling EU sea change

Justin Catanoso 9 Mar 2021
The border region between Bears Ears and Navajo Nation. Photo credit: NASA Landsat

Conservation would be more effective with more Indigenous leadership, says Patrick Gonzales-Rogers

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Mar 2021

Persistence of slave labor exposes lawlessness of Amazon gold mines

Maurício Angelo 4 Mar 2021

As Amazon forest-to-savanna tipping point looms, solutions remain elusive

Shanna Hanbury 23 Feb 2021

New platform gathers data on Brazil’s disappearing Cerrado biome

Clarissa Beretz 23 Feb 2021

Gold and diamonds fail to shine as drivers of Amazon development

Maurício Angelo 22 Feb 2021
Satellite image of Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand in February 2021. Photo credit: Maxar Technologies and Planet.

‘Everything on this planet is connected’: Q&A with WWF’s Marco Lambertini

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2021

In Malaysian Borneo’s rainforests, powerful state governments set their own rules

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 18 Feb 2021
Greenpeace volunteers create a burnt smoldering rainforest with a lifelike animatronic orangutan at the headquarters of Oreo cookies near Uxbridge, UK as part of a campaign to pressure Wilmar, which is a palm oil supplier to Mondelez, which makes Oreo cookies. Photo © Chris J Ratcliffe / Greenpeace

‘A better world is within reach’: Q&A with Greenpeace’s Jennifer Morgan

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Feb 2021

500+ experts call on world’s nations to not burn forests to make energy

Justin Catanoso 15 Feb 2021

Will new US EPA head continue his opposition to burning forests for energy?

Justin Catanoso 4 Feb 2021

New approaches needed to protect biodiversity as Aichi Targets go unmet

Liz Kimbrough 3 Feb 2021
Sunrise over the Amazon rainforest

Bipartisan group recommends how Joe Biden can help save the Amazon

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2021

Activists make the case that bigger is better to protect Galápagos reserve

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Jan 2021
The Valley of the Gods, formerly part of Bears Ears National Monument, in San Juan County, Utah. Photo © Matthew Dillon

Eyes on the future: An open letter to President Biden on Indigenous Peoples

18 concerned people 28 Jan 2021
Blue dart frog. Image by Rhett Butler.

Humanity’s ‘ecological Ponzi scheme’ sets up bleak future, scientists warn

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Jan 2021

How to transform systems: Q&A with WRI’s Andrew Steer

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jan 2021

Analysis: Years in the making, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta policy takes the long view

David E. Brown 30 Dec 2020

Analysis: How Vietnam came to embrace a new vision of the Mekong Delta’s future

David E. Brown 24 Dec 2020
Red passion vine flower in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Colombia’s forests lurch between deforestation and the hope for a sustainable future

Dimitri Selibas 24 Dec 2020

2020’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Emma Critchley, Douglas McCauley 21 Dec 2020

When invaders moved onto their land, Brazil’s Karipuna people pushed back

Maurício Angelo 18 Dec 2020

Indonesia allows use of destructive seine and trawl nets in its waters again

Basten Gokkon 17 Dec 2020
Wooded landscape in Kõrvemaa Nature Park, Estonia. Image courtesy of Ireen Trummer via Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0.

EU renewable energy policy subsidizes surge in logging of Estonia’s protected areas (commentary)

Siim Kuresoo 7 Dec 2020

Layers of regulations to protect European seas ‘not working,’ audit finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Dec 2020

Lobster export policy that landed Indonesian minister in jail could resume

Basten Gokkon 30 Nov 2020

Indonesian fisheries minister arrested over graft in lobster policy

Basten Gokkon 25 Nov 2020

Philippine ‘raptor boy’ shows it takes a village to protect a migration route

Bong S. Sarmiento 22 Nov 2020
amandua and Baita in a still from the documentary film Piripkura (2018). Image courtesy of Bruno Jorge.

Surrounded by intruders, the last of Brazil’s Piripkura hold out in the Amazon

Maurício Angelo 13 Nov 2020

Philippines declares no new coal plants — but lets approved projects through

Leilani Chavez 5 Nov 2020

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