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A landfill with mixed waste.

Takin’ out the trash: How do transnational waste traffickers operate?

Guia Baggi, Laura Carrer, Rahma Behi, Virginia Kirst 3 Aug 2023
Freshwater ecologist Kurt Pinter holds a fish collected during the 2023 biological survey of the Neretva River, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photo by Monica Pelliccia for Mongabay.

How biological surveys prevent destructive dams in the Balkans

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2023
The Txori Argi fishing trawler in port.

West African fishers strike for fair wages and ‘respect’ on EU-owned vessels

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Jul 2023

Can Spain keep the rising sea from washing away a critical delta?

Nathan Siegel 5 Jul 2023
A European eel (Anguilla anguilla) underwater.

Conservationists aim to save critically endangered European eels on Italy’s Po River

Lucrezia Lozza 26 May 2023
Rainforest in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Despite landmark law, Europe faces tough test to end role in global forest loss (commentary)

Sam Lawson 15 May 2023

Meet the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 24 Apr 2023

Norway proposes opening Germany-sized area of its continental shelf to deep-sea mining

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Apr 2023
Eurasian lynx mother and cub.

Could biodiversity be a key to better forest carbon storage in Europe?

Mark Hillsdon 13 Apr 2023
An Iberian lynx.

Vulture carrion potential boon and threat for endangered Iberian lynx: Studies

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2023
Logged trees for biomass in Bischofsheim, Germany.

EU woody biomass final policy continues threatening forests and climate: Critics

Justin Catanoso 3 Apr 2023
Atlantic blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) caught in Italy.

Can we control marine invaders by eating them?

Guia Baggi 23 Mar 2023
Dutch windmills in Zaanse Schans, Zaanstad.

Sea level rise looms, even for the best-prepared country on Earth

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Mar 2023
On 22 June 2022 the farmers protest started in the Netherlands. Tractors from all over the country drove to Stroe. This picture was taken along the A27 near Houten, just in front of the Lunetten interchange. Image by Frank Magdelyns from Pixabay.

For Dutch farming crisis, agroforestry offers solutions: Q&A with Lennart Fuchs & Marc Buiter

Peter Speetjens 21 Mar 2023
A member of the Sámi Indigenous people tends a reindeer in Sweden.

Sámi rights must not be sacrificed for green energy goals of Europe (commentary)

Karin Nutti Pilflykt 20 Mar 2023
A wood pellet mill in North Carolina.

Japan, EU & UK biomass emissions standards fall short and are full of loopholes, critics say

Annelise Giseburt 14 Mar 2023
Sentinel-2A lift off.

France seeks EU okay to fund biomass plants, burn Amazon forest to power Spaceport

Justin Catanoso 23 Feb 2023
The Kyiv Zoo captive breeds European hamsters before they are released into the wild. Photo by Bogdan Skulskii for the Kyiv Zoo.

Ukrainian biologists fight to protect conservation legacy

Marlowe Starling 22 Feb 2023

End of the tuna FAD? Indonesia hopes so, but EU isn’t giving up just yet

Basten Gokkon 20 Feb 2023
A car burns with two people inside, after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Image by AP Photo/Felipe Dana via Flickr.

Ukrainian ecologists say nature will suffer no matter war’s result (commentary)

Oleksii Vasyliuk, Yuliia Spinova 30 Jan 2023

The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all

Justin Catanoso 24 Jan 2023
A crab-eating frog.

EU demand for frogs’ legs raises risks of local extinctions, experts warn

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2023
Macroalgae and sea anemones.

Hunting for future-proof marine plants in the acidic waters bathing a volcano

Guia Baggi 28 Dec 2022

Australia rejects forest biomass in first blow to wood pellet industry

Justin Catanoso 21 Dec 2022
The shuttered Eurokeys recycling plant in the town of Zielona Góra. Image by Eva Dunal/Outriders.

Into the Wasteland, part 3: Buried in Europe’s recycling

Mongabay.com 20 Dec 2022
British plastic packaging and other waste soils the countryside as far away as Turkey (pictured). Image by Caner Ozkan via Greenpeace Media Library.

Is waste crime ‘the new narcotics’ in the U.K.? Into the Wasteland, part 2

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2022

As EU finalizes renewable energy plan, forest advocates condemn biomass

Justin Catanoso 7 Dec 2022
Aerial photo of riparian forest and deforestation for soy.

‘Amazing first step’ as EU law cracks down on deforestation-linked imports

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Dec 2022
A mountain of UK plastic waste near Wespack Recycling Factory in Malaysia, via Greenpeace Media Library.

True eco-crime in the U.K., ‘Into the Wasteland’

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2022
Logging operation in Sweden for paper products and biomass energy. Image courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

EU’s winter energy crisis intensifies pressure on forests (commentary)

Martin Pigeon 1 Dec 2022

Illegal bottom trawling widespread inside Mediterranean marine protected areas

Edward Carver 22 Nov 2022

EU ‘moving the goal posts’ with new timber requirement, Indonesia says

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Nov 2022

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