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New near-real-time tool reveals Earth’s land cover in more detail than ever before

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2022

End old-growth logging in carbon-rich ‘crown jewel’ of U.S. forests: Study

John Cannon 8 Jun 2022
A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Foreign capital powers Brazil’s meatpackers and helps deforest the Amazon

Moyra Ashford, Sue Branford 7 Jun 2022

In the DRC’s forests, a tug-of-war between oil and aid

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Jun 2022

Indonesian official charged, but not jailed, for trading in Sumatran tiger parts

Junaidi Hanafiah 7 Jun 2022

Does citizen ownership of natural resources hold the key to realizing deforestation commitments? (commentary)

Han Overman 6 Jun 2022
Tree nursery

Common goals ensure forest restoration success in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 6 Jun 2022

Indonesia teams up with Germany on Sumatran rhino breeding efforts

Basten Gokkon 3 Jun 2022

Study casts doubt on sustainability of regulated blood python snakeskin trade

Basten Gokkon 2 Jun 2022

Sumatra palm plantations the usual suspects as unusual burning razes peatlands

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2022
Drying farmed cannabis.

Legal and illegal cannabis: A cause for growing environmental concern

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2022
Omar al-Sharif, Motoharu Nochi, and a team of volunteers after a “growth monitoring” activity at the Marka baby forest in April 2022.

In Jordan, the Middle East’s first Miyawaki-style ‘baby’ forests take root

Lyse Mauvais 1 Jun 2022
Group of elephants facing the camera, the nearest with trunk raised and ears fanned. Image by Aftab Uzzaman via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Cash-strapped Zimbabwe pushes to be allowed to sell its ivory stockpile

Farayi Machamire 1 Jun 2022

Chinese companies linked to illegal logging and mining in northern DRC

Gloria Pallares 31 May 2022
Inspectors from Brazil’s federal environmental protection agency, IBAMA, carried out a series of inspections in 2017, exposing weaknesses in Brazil's forest management systems that allowed illegal timber to be sold both domestically and abroad.

Government inaction sees 98% of deforestation alerts go unpunished in Brazil

Sarah Brown 31 May 2022

Legal defeats pile up for palm oil companies stripped of permits in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2022

Amazon frog highlights appropriation of Indigenous knowledge for commercial gain

Jennifer Ann Thomas 31 May 2022
A river running through an old-growth lowland rainforest in Brunei.

Fossil evidence confirms persistence of prehistoric forests in Brunei

John Cannon 31 May 2022

Satellite data brings new insights on what drives Amazon forest loss

Maxwell Radwin 30 May 2022

As large areas of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest regenerate, the gains don’t last

Elizabeth Oliveira 30 May 2022
A Bengal tiger sits on a road in neighboring India.

Nepal’s key habitat could lose 39% of its tigers in 20 years, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 May 2022
A fisherman collects shrimp in Khulna, Bangladesh.

Bangladesh ban on resource hunting in Sundarbans leaves communities facing hardship

Abu Siddique 30 May 2022
Residents of the Mura Indigenous village of Murutinga, in Brazil’s Amazonas state, take over a boat belonging to employees of the electricity company, who have come to cut off the community's energy supplies. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Push for potash mine in Brazil’s Amazon looms over Indigenous people

Ana Ionova 27 May 2022

Study warns of risk from feline viruses to wild cats on the palm oil frontier

Sean Mowbray 26 May 2022

Seed banks catalog Brazil’s food past to safeguard its future

Sibélia Zanon 26 May 2022

Meet the 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 25 May 2022
A frog in Peruvian Amazon.

Caribbean incursion into Amazon sparked a flurry of life, with lessons for the future

Fernanda Wenzel 24 May 2022

Efforts bloom to save southern Brazil’s last butiá palm groves

Aldem Bourscheit 24 May 2022

Investors force Home Depot to review wood-sourcing policy over logging concerns

Maxwell Radwin 23 May 2022
Young people at Macatumbalen are trained by their parents to co-manage the community nursery where the tree seedlings are grown and regularly watered.

Devastated by a typhoon, community foresters in the Philippines find little support

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 May 2022

The price of oil spills in Peru and Colombia? Millions of dollars in fines

Cristina Fernández Aguilar 20 May 2022
A common squirrel monkey in Colombian Amazon.

Drivers of Colombia’s peacetime deforestation weave a complex web

Gianluca Cerullo 20 May 2022

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