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Brazil’s native bees are vital for agriculture, but are being killed by it

Sibélia Zanon 1 Jun 2020

Green alert: How indigenous people are experiencing climate change in the Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 27 May 2020

In Indonesia’s new rice plan, experts see the blueprint of an epic past failure

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 May 2020

Amid lockdown, Sri Lankans nurture their own oases through home gardening

Malaka Rodrigo 15 May 2020

Market-based solutions cannot solely fund community-level conservation (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 11 May 2020

For Philippine farmers reeling from disasters, lockdown is another pain point

Mavic Conde 7 May 2020

Soy made the Cerrado a breadbasket; climate change may end that

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 5 May 2020

Move over, fishmeal: Insects and bacteria emerge as alternative animal feeds

Emilie Filou 24 Apr 2020

Tax exemptions on pesticides in Brazil add up to US$ 2.2 billion per year

Mariana Della Barba, Diego Junqueira, from Repórter Brasil, Pedro Grigori from Agência Pública 1 Apr 2020

Study finds huge potential for urban gardens to feed city dwellers

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2020

Averting an agricultural and ecological crisis in the Philippines’ salad bowl

Karlston Lapniten 13 Mar 2020
Fishing boat, Inhambane, Mozambique. Image by Gus McLeod via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

East Africa’s reefs being fished at unsustainable rates, study finds

Jim Tan 5 Mar 2020

Small steps aim to make a large ocean safer for rays

Marianne Messina 24 Feb 2020

Managing fisheries helps stocks recover — most of the time

John Cannon 7 Feb 2020

Illegal industrial fishing hampers small-scale African fisheries

John Cannon 3 Feb 2020

Habitat loss, climate change make for an uncertain cricket harvest in Uganda

Thomas Lewton 29 Jan 2020

Catching fish to feed fish: Report details ‘unsustainable’ fishmeal and oil industry

Monica Evans 4 Dec 2019

Scientists emphasize disease control in booming aquaculture sector

Michelle Carrere 18 Oct 2019

Modern farms need both high- and low-tech farming practices (commentary)

Juan Minvielle 16 Oct 2019
Gold and sand mining near Mandor, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The unrecognized cost of Indonesia’s fires (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2019

For one Indonesian village, mangrove restoration has been all upside

Fathul Rakhman 24 Sep 2019

Decolonizing trees in a tropical city to nurture multi-cultural identity

Carinya Sharples 13 Sep 2019

Climate adaptation begins with how we manage water (commentary)

Claudia Sadoff 12 Sep 2019

Half a billion bees dead as Brazil approves hundreds more pesticides

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 23 Aug 2019

Making room for wild foods in forest conservation

Sarah Sax 22 Jul 2019
Sakondry, ready to eat. Image by Brian Fisher.

Eat the insects, spare the lemurs

Emilie Filou 11 Jul 2019
The sun rises over Kutupalong, the world's largest settlement built on cleared forest land. Photo by Kaamil Ahmed/Mongabay.

Regreening a barren Rohingya refugee camp on Myanmar’s border

Kaamil Ahmed 11 Jun 2019

A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019

World Agroforestry Congress gathers huge group of global boosters in France

Erik Hoffner 21 May 2019

Coops, community, and agroforestry: Q&A with coffee entrepreneur Dean Cycon

Erik Hoffner 13 May 2019
Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands, where the oil spill occurred. Image courtesy of Google Earth. 

Solomon Islands: Oil stops spilling but environmental toll still being calculated

Catherine Wilson 2 Apr 2019

Madeira River dams may spell doom for Amazon’s marathon catfish: Studies

Text by Gustavo Faleiros and images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 25 Mar 2019

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