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Banner image of a forest in Finland by kallerna via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How did Finland lead the pursuit of a circular economy? Mongabay podcast explores

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2025
Starbucks Logo on the Wall

Report accuses Starbucks of tax avoidance through ‘ethical’ Swiss subsidiary

Alex Shaw 24 Apr 2025
Harvested American ginseng.

As US agroforestry grows, federal funding freeze leaves farmers in the lurch

Sarah Derouin 1 Apr 2025
Using renewable energy solutions like solar to power irrigation and other processes along the agriculture value chain is helping countries in the region to lower production costs by avoiding high operations and maintenance costs associated with diesel-powered generators like here in Rwamagana, a district from Eastern Rwanda. The World Resources Institute (WRI)is currently supporting initiatives that integrate renewable energy into agricultural value chains in Africa. Image by Aimable Twahirwa.

Smallholder agriculture blossoming with the use of renewables in Africa

Aimable Twahirwa 31 Mar 2025
Fishing vessel. Image courtesy of Nicolas Job / Ocean Image Bank.

Panama conducts large illegal fishing bust in protected Pacific waters

Edward Carver 28 Mar 2025
Beekeepers monitoring hive boxes at Kazirhat, Shariatpur.

Indiscriminate pesticide use threatens Bangladesh honey bees

Sadiqur Rahman 27 Mar 2025

Indigenous communities in Indonesia demand halt to land-grabbing government projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Mar 2025

Rep from American Samoa calls for opening protected Pacific waters to tuna fishing

Edward Carver 19 Mar 2025
Fishermen in Marshall, Liberia, prepare nets for fishing. Image by Edward Blamo for Mongabay.

Liberia to start industrial shrimp fishing, worrying artisanal fishers

Edward Blamo 5 Mar 2025
Smallholder cacao farmers at work in Brazil.

Aiding natural pollination can boost cacao yields & climate resilience

Sean Mowbray 24 Feb 2025
Women set out sprat to dry in the sun in Kigoma, Tanzania, near the shore of Lake Tanganyika.

Small-scale fishers’ role in feeding the planet goes overlooked: Study

Edward Carver 14 Feb 2025
Juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Chile.

Mass salmon deaths hit Scottish farms as government investigates

Francesco De Augustinis 12 Feb 2025
Zulkifli Dalimunthe pulls in the net he cast the previous morning.

Unchecked illegal trawling pushes Indonesia’s small-scale fishers to the brink

Tonggo Simangunsong 11 Feb 2025
A variety of corns and beans native to Mexico.

Expected ban on Mexican GM corn fetches praise — and worry over imports

Adam D. Williams 5 Feb 2025
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with federal, state and nonprofit partners to restore endangered Atlantic salmon to the Penobscot River watershed in Maine.

Salmon farms under fire on U.S. East Coast after being shuttered on West Coast

Edward Carver 24 Jan 2025
Thai activists

Thai farmers demand action to restore ecosystems, compensate for invasive fish

Carolyn Cowan 16 Jan 2025

Cameroon aims to double cacao, coffee production, yet also save forests

Yannick Kenné 14 Jan 2025
A bottlenose wedgefish (Rhynchobatus australiae).

New evidence spells massive trouble for world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jan 2025

‘These stories deserve to be told’: Shining a light on secretive fisheries managers

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Dec 2024

Time for a ‘moral reckoning’ of aquaculture’s environmental impacts

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 10 Dec 2024
Food can pick up chemicals from to-go containers and everything else they contact on their way to your table. Credit: Taklamacuwv Lamia on Wikimedia Commons

Thousands of chemicals from food packaging found in humans, a major study reveals

Rita Aksenfeld 25 Nov 2024
Fishers catch fish in a net in their aquaculture enclosure.

Overuse of antibiotics in Bangladesh aquaculture raises health concerns

Masum Billah 21 Nov 2024
Salmon farms in Loch Ainort.

Scottish salmon farms seek growth despite mounting fish deaths and environmental concerns

Francesco De Augustinis 20 Nov 2024
Water pollution due to the frequent movement of minerals-laden vessels and tourism-based houseboats through the sanctuaries contributes to the decline in Tanguar Haor’s fish diversity.

A Ramsar site in Bangladesh fast loses its fish diversity amid government inaction

Sadiqur Rahman 19 Nov 2024
An oil palm farmer in Benin extracting palm oil.

Smallholders offer mixed reactions to calls for delay in EU deforestation law

Aimee Gabay 1 Nov 2024
Nets, ropes, buoys and other bits of fishing equipment bursting out of decaying bags.

Startups replace plastics with mushrooms in the seafood industry

Claire Turrell 29 Oct 2024
Antarctic terns (Sterna vittata)

More krill fishing and no new protected areas for Antarctic seas after latest talks

Francesco De Augustinis 28 Oct 2024
Shark and ray remains after their fins have been removed at Brondong Harbor, East Java.

Clock ticks on Indonesia shark skinners as predator population plunges

Asad Asnawi 25 Sep 2024

What will the Brazilian food industry do about plastic packaging?

Ellen Nemitz 19 Sep 2024
A fruit seller with peeled papaya in a market in Bangladesh.

Crop fields make way for profitable orchards in Bangladesh, imperiling food security

Abu Siddique 3 Sep 2024
The government has temporarily stopped Pacitan mining operations.

Polluting copper mine in Java suspended as farmers decry lost crops

Asad Asnawi 30 Aug 2024
Image de banniere : Travailleurs de PHC avec des gallons de pesticides dans la plantation de Yaligimba. Image © Luciana Téllez/Human Rights Watch

DRC communities turn up heat on EU lenders funding palm oil giant PHC

Yannick Kenné 12 Aug 2024

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