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A Dayak Ngaju tribe man tries to extinguish fire on burning peatland in Mantangai, Central Kalimantan.

In Borneo village, Indigenous Dayaks leave farming amid stricter fire rules

Rendy Tisna 24 Apr 2025

Indonesia’s peatlands face growing flood risks amid widespread degradation

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Apr 2025
Fire in an area newly deforested in Brazil.

Brazil is speeding-up forest fire prevention to avoid dangerous tipping points in the Amazon (commentary)

Robert Muggah and Ilona Szabo 6 Apr 2025

Uttarakhand’s extreme weather wreaks havoc on crops, livelihoods & futures

Swati Thapa 3 Apr 2025

Climate change spikes wildfire risk in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 25 Mar 2025

Indonesians suing pulpwood firms over haze face intimidation, seek human rights protection

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Mar 2025

‘Sustainable’ palm oil firms continue illegal peatland clearing despite permit revocation

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Mar 2025
Emberá community leader Omaira Casama discusses the project with the McGill University team.

Agroforestry stores less carbon than reforestation, but has many other benefits, study finds

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2025
Black flying foxes are found in the forests of the Kimberley region of northern Australia. Image by Andrew Mercer via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Australia’s little-known rainforests, tradition and science collaborate for good

Nick Rodway 28 Feb 2025
The Kazembe nursery group with Mulanje cedar seedlings in 2018. Community tree nurseries, set up with assistance from MMCT, BGCI and other partners, have been central in building support for Mulanje cedar restoration. The nurseries also demonstrate that it is possible to cultivate native trees, something many people previously did not think was possible. Image courtesy of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI).

Reforesting Malawi’s ‘Island in the Sky’ to save its vanishing woodlands

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Feb 2025

After LA, fire crisis reaches Latin America — from Mexico to Argentina

Astrid Arellano 17 Feb 2025

Amazon states lead rebellion on environmental enforcement

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Feb 2025
A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Simrin Sirur (with Orji Sunday and Karla Mendes) 13 Jan 2025

After a searing Amazon fire season, experts warn of more in 2025

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Jan 2025
YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024

Nepal created a forest fund to do everything; five years on it’s done nothing

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Dec 2024

Reserve in Brazilian Amazon struggles as ‘aggressive’ deforestation spreads

Ruth Kamnitzer 27 Nov 2024
Oluwa's forest are home to many species threatened with extinction, including this red-capped mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus). Image by Rufus46 via Wikimedia Commons (CC SA 3.0).

A Nigerian reserve, once a stronghold for chimps, is steadily losing its forest to farming

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Nov 2024
A firefighter wears a breathing mask after the Maui fire to protect himself from toxic vapors.

As global fire risk rises, modern homes become toxic plastic traps

Alden Wicker 14 Nov 2024
Greenpeace Brazil conducted an aerial survey in southern Amazonas and northern Rondônia to monitor deforestation and fires in July 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace.

Deforestation remains low, but fires surge in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 12 Oct 2024

In Bolivia, Indigenous communities struggle to rebuild as wildfires return

Benjamin Swift 8 Oct 2024
Rainfall over the Amazon river. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

The Amazon is ablaze again. What it means for us (commentary)

Mark J. Plotkin 30 Sep 2024
An old growth clear-cut in Kwakwaka'wakw territory, northern Vancouver Island. Image copyright: Mya Van Woudenberg, Sierra Club BC.

As logging intensifies forest fires, Wet’suwet’en fight to protect old growth

Erica Gies 23 Sep 2024

Sumatra citizen lawsuit seeks accountability for haze-causing fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Sep 2024
Tropical rainforests are not adapted to fire, and have no natural fire regime.

Brazil launches ‘war’ on widespread fire outbreaks & criminal arsonists

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Aug 2024
BC wildfire service crew and partners conduct a prescribed burn in southeastern British Columbia in April 2024.

As the world burns, can we learn to live with wildfire health risks?

Ruth Kamnitzer 2 Jul 2024
A member of a Quebequois fire crew assisting on a fire in the Plumas National Forest in northern California in 2020.

The health impacts of escalating megafires are everyone’s problem

Ruth Kamnitzer 1 Jul 2024

Pantanal’s intense blazes stoke fears of another destructive fire season

Constance Malleret 27 Jun 2024

Fire bans not effective as the Amazon and Pantanal burn, study says

Fernanda Wenzel 27 Jun 2024
Handils are the boundaries of fields as well as paths for transportation and waters to fish in.

Borneo’s Dayak adapt Indigenous forestry to modern peat management

Titik Kartitiani 25 Jun 2024
A pair of lesser adjutants in the Sundarbans.

Bangladesh to formalize fire mitigation plans for Sundarbans as burning risk rises

Abu Siddique 22 May 2024
A Dayak Pitap woman.

On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 15 May 2024

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