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Rush to turn ‘black diamonds’ into cash eats up Uganda’s forests, fruits

Alex Tumuhimbise 17 Jun 2021
Reforestation project in Borneo using native species. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Singapore launches new carbon marketplace for nature conservancy projects

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 16 Jun 2021

Forest advocates press EU leader to rethink views on biomass and energy

Justin Catanoso 15 Jun 2021
Proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Scientists call for solving climate and biodiversity crises together

John Cannon 14 Jun 2021
Zacambu River in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

US, UK join Norway and Germany in effort to protect Peru’s rainforests

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2021
Satellite image of oil palm, agriculture, and forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image credit: Maxar Technologies.

Chocolate giant funds high resolution carbon map to protect forests

Aurora Solá 1 Jun 2021

The key to averting environmental catastrophe is right beneath our feet

Claire Asher 1 Jun 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Science refutes United Cacao’s claim it didn’t deforest Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 25 May 2021

‘Drastic forest development’: Vietnam to plant 1 billion trees — but how?

Michael Tatarski 20 May 2021

Indonesian president slammed for ‘wait-and-see’ approach on climate action

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 May 2021

Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?

Mike Gaworecki 13 May 2021

‘Zero illegal deforestation’ – One more Bolsonaro distortion (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 May 2021

Leaders make bold climate pledges, but is it ‘all just smoke and mirrors?’: Critics

Justin Catanoso 23 Apr 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Governments, companies pledge $1 billion for tropical forests

Aurora Solá, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2021

Indonesia’s bid to control deforestation wildly off-target, experts say

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Apr 2021

With British Columbia’s last old-growth at risk, government falters: Critics

Justin Catanoso 20 Apr 2021

As COP26 looms and tropical deforestation soars, REDD+ debate roars on

Peter Yeung 15 Apr 2021

Government inaction prompts voluntary REDD+ carbon credit boom in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 6 Apr 2021

Dutch to limit forest biomass subsidies, possibly signaling EU sea change

Justin Catanoso 9 Mar 2021
Liberian tropical forest. Image via USAID

Review finds palm oil firm Golden Veroleum cleared carbon-rich Liberian forests

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Mar 2021

Papua deforestation highlights eastward shift of Indonesia forest clearing

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Mar 2021

As Amazon forest-to-savanna tipping point looms, solutions remain elusive

Shanna Hanbury 23 Feb 2021
A lemur tree frog (Hylomantis lemur) in Costa Rica. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

U.N. report lays out blueprint to end ‘suicidal war on nature’

John Cannon 19 Feb 2021

Big dream: NGO leads in creating 1,615-mile Amazon-Cerrado river greenbelt

Jenny Gonzales 17 Feb 2021

500+ experts call on world’s nations to not burn forests to make energy

Justin Catanoso 15 Feb 2021

Will new US EPA head continue his opposition to burning forests for energy?

Justin Catanoso 4 Feb 2021

Seven financial firms key to rooting out deforestation, report finds

John Cannon 29 Jan 2021

Amazon is on the brink of turning into a carbon source, study warns

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2021
Rainforest tree with magenta flowers

Critical temperature threshold spells shorter lives for tropical trees

Liz Kimbrough 22 Dec 2020

Palm oil giant Wilmar unfazed as watchdogs cry foul over Papua deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Dec 2020
Wooded landscape in Kõrvemaa Nature Park, Estonia. Image courtesy of Ireen Trummer via Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0.

EU renewable energy policy subsidizes surge in logging of Estonia’s protected areas (commentary)

Siim Kuresoo 7 Dec 2020

New rule puts Indonesia’s protected forests up for grabs for agribusiness

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Nov 2020

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