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Global fisheries deprive local communities of key nutrients, study finds

Stephen Leahy 26 Sep 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

Companies sourcing beef, leather from China exposed to Brazil deforestation risk, researchers say

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2019

Half a billion bees dead as Brazil approves hundreds more pesticides

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 23 Aug 2019

Forests: A key piece of the land and climate puzzle (commentary)

Pablo Pacheco 8 Aug 2019

To regulate or not to regulate? EU climate commitments face key test over global deforestation (commentary)

Sam Lawson 26 Jul 2019

Making room for wild foods in forest conservation

Sarah Sax 22 Jul 2019
Deforestation for soy production in the Bolivian Amazon and Chaco. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

New initiative aims to jump-start stalled drive toward zero deforestation

Sarah Sax 19 Jul 2019

Study examines how the Atlantic surfclam is successfully adapting to climate change

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2019
Sakondry, ready to eat. Image by Brian Fisher.

Eat the insects, spare the lemurs

Emilie Filou 11 Jul 2019
Fishers roll out a red purse-seine net in Mangalore, a major fishing harbor in southwest India. Some of the country’s coastal states are beginning to regulate purse seine fishing boats, especially the size of the net mesh to ensure juvenile fish don’t get caught. Image by Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar.

Rattled by sardine stock crash, India begins regulating its fisheries

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar 11 Jul 2019
Fishermen arrange their gear in Tombo. Many local artisanal fishermen supported the recent one-month closure of Sierra Leone’s waters to fishing by industrial vessels. Image by Uzman Unis Bah for Mongabay.

Was Sierra Leone’s one-month fishing ban enough to replenish fish stocks?

Uzman Unis Bah 3 Jul 2019

For Ecuador’s Sápara, saving the forest means saving their language

Sarah Sax 2 Jul 2019

’Livestock revolution’ triggered decline in global pasture: Report

John Cannon 19 Jun 2019

New tool helps monitor forest change within commodities supply chains

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Jun 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
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Alliance launches plan to save the planet

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2019

A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019

New report examines drivers of rising Amazon deforestation on country-by-country basis

Mongabay.com 23 May 2019

World Agroforestry Congress gathers huge group of global boosters in France

Erik Hoffner 21 May 2019

Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical

John Cannon 21 May 2019

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

Erik Hoffner 13 May 2019
Sanazy, from Beheloke Haut, says “hunger” pushed her to start farming seaweed three years ago: she earns about $20 from the crop during her best months. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Amid aquaculture boom, report guides investors toward sustainability

Maxwell Radwin 8 May 2019

Slave labor found at second Starbucks-certified Brazilian coffee farm

Daniel Camargos, from Repórter Brasil 3 May 2019

EU holds the key to stop the ‘Notre Dame of forests’ from burning (commentary)

Claire Wordley 30 Apr 2019

Bird flu in Namibia’s penguins wanes, after killing nearly 500

John Cannon 24 Apr 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

How land grabbers co-opt indigenous ritual traditions in Papua: Q&A with anthropologist Sophie Chao

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 28 Mar 2019

Ocean acidification could impact Atlantic cod populations more severely than previously thought

Mongabay.com 27 Mar 2019

Days of darkness: Venezuelan national emergency is also environmental crisis

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 25 Mar 2019

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