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A brooding squid (Gonatus onyx) and her egg sack.

Deep-sea mining’s future still murky as negotiations end on mixed note

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Apr 2024
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Enviva bankruptcy fallout ripples through biomass industry, U.S. and EU

Justin Catanoso 2 Apr 2024
A man on an e-bike.

E-bikes could cut smog, energy use and congestion globally — but will they?

Charles Pekow 1 Apr 2024

Agribusiness bill moves to block grassland protections in Brazilian biomes

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Mar 2024

Mining industry touts green pledges to attract talent, but Gen Z isn’t buying it

Dimitri Selibas 27 Mar 2024

‘Planting water, eating Caatinga & irrigating with the sun’: Interview with agroecologist Tião Alves

Xavier Bartaburu 25 Mar 2024

Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2024

In Raja Ampat, pearl farming balances business and ecological sustainability

Basten Gokkon 22 Mar 2024

How to reward tropical forest conservation: Interview with Tasso Azevedo

Jenny Gonzales 22 Mar 2024
Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis). Image courtesy of WWF Sweden.

Ancient giant river dolphin species found in the Peruvian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2024
The helmet jellyfish (Periphylla periphylla) collected with a remotely operated vehicle in the North Pacific Ocean.

Communities worry anew as PNG revives seabed mining plans

John Cannon 20 Mar 2024

Projected Pantanal waterway threatens protected areas, may render navigation impossible

Fernanda Wenzel 15 Mar 2024

Global protected area policies spark conflicts with Mexico Indigenous groups

Aimee Gabay 5 Mar 2024
The people of Tebing Tinggi Okura, Riau, protest against the clarity of 20% plasma plantations for them.

Sumatra community faces up to ‘plasma’ disappointment after palm oil policy shift

Suryadi 4 Mar 2024
A farmer spraying pesticides in a rice field.

Scientists and doctors raise global alarm over hormone-disrupting chemicals

Alden Wicker 4 Mar 2024
Jonathan Mesulam

PNG communities resist seabed mining: Interview with activist Jonathan Mesulam

John Cannon 1 Mar 2024

Should all marine reserves ban fishing? Not necessarily, new study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Feb 2024
A salmon farm in Bugoynes, Finnmark, Norway.

Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish that could feed millions in Africa: Report

Francesco De Augustinis 27 Feb 2024

Agrochemicals take a big toll on Global South, new Atlas of Pesticides shows

Matheus Lopes Quirino 22 Feb 2024

With drop in illegal fishing comes rise in piracy, study in Indonesia finds

Basten Gokkon 22 Feb 2024

No sea change on marine policy from candidates as Indonesia heads to polls

Basten Gokkon 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 (words and photos) & Rafael Martins (video and photos) 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

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

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