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On a Philippine mountain, researchers describe a ‘fire flower’ orchid species

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Oct 2020

Research links industrial pig farming and virus outbreaks

Sibélia Zanon 8 Oct 2020

Indonesia’s food estate program eyes new plantations in forest frontiers

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Oct 2020
Mycena haematopus (Burgundydrop Bonnet)

World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2020

Could disruptions in meat supply relieve pressure on the Amazon? (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 30 Sep 2020

A Philippine stingless bee helps boost coconut yields and empower women

Mavic Conde 29 Sep 2020

Amazon meatpacking plants, a COVID-19 hotspot, may be ground zero for next pandemic

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini, Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 11 Sep 2020
Image by ilustrativa/John Lambeth/Pexels

For European chemical giants, Brazil is an open market for toxic pesticides banned at home

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 10 Sep 2020

No, ‘regenerative ranching’ is not good for grassland birds (commentary)

Jennifer Molidor 8 Sep 2020
Brazil might be a good candidate for increased feedlot production of beef. Photo by A.C. Moraes.

Europe’s richest countries importing Brazilian beef linked to millions of tons of emissions: Report

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2020

Fishing for change: Local management of Amazon’s largest fish also empowers women

Claudia Geib 31 Aug 2020
Rangers in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

Communities, conservation, and development in the age of COVID: Time for rethinking approaches (commentary)

Michael Brown, Beth Allgood, John Waugh, Robin Martino, Samantha Cheng, Candice Carr Kelman, Ana Luz Porzecanski 31 Aug 2020

Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse

Maurício Angelo 19 Aug 2020
Microsoft Zoom Earth satellite image show a section of burned peatland in the region in Central Kalimantan where the rice project is planned.

Indonesia pushes rice estate project despite environmental red flags

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Aug 2020

All talk, no walk: ‘Green’ financiers still support Amazon beef industry

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini, Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 13 Aug 2020

Paper maze and lack of transparency cloak investment in companies involved in Amazon deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini, Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 11 Aug 2020
Cattle at one of the 70,000 suppliers used by JBS, one of Brazil's largest beef producers. Photo courtesy of JBS

Investigation links meat giant JBS to Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2020

World Bank-backed attempt to commercialize Madagascar’s beef industry falters

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jul 2020

Bubbles, lasers and robo-bees: The blossoming industry of artificial pollination

Liz Kimbrough 24 Jul 2020

Where there’s cattle ranching and soybean farming, there’s fire, study finds

Marcelo Coppola 20 Jul 2020

New study quantifies impact of hunting on migratory shorebird populations

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2020

Corn growers in Brazil’s Cerrado reap a hostile climate of their own making

Maurício Angelo 15 Jul 2020
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

‘Our life is plasticized’: New research shows microplastics in our food, water, air

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jul 2020

‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua (commentary)

Sophie Chao 14 Jul 2020

Brazilian meatpacker expands with World Bank funding but fails to reduce impacts in the Amazon

Naira Hofmeister 9 Jul 2020

Gray areas and weak policies mar lucrative Asian trade in live reef fish

Keith Anthony Fabro 6 Jul 2020

China and EU appetite for soy drives Brazilian deforestation, climate change: Study

Chris Arsenault 23 Jun 2020

Shifting cultivation: more than a means of livelihood

Aimee Gabay 18 Jun 2020

In Sri Lanka, crop-destroying insects follow the COVID-19 pandemic

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Jun 2020

Concerned for the future, indigenous Nicaraguans lament lost habitats

Sandra Cuffe 16 Jun 2020

Amazon poor go hungry as Brazil slashes social safety net, cuts forests: Study

Shanna Hanbury 11 Jun 2020
Cows grazing in Nicaragua's southern indigenous autonomous region in October,

Nicaraguan beef, grazed on deforested and stolen land, feeds global demand

Mario Rautner, Sandra Cuffe 10 Jun 2020

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