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‘There’s not much hope’: Mediterranean corals collapse under relentless heat

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Feb 2022

French deforestation database pressures Brazilian soy traders to clean up supply chain

Maxwell Radwin 14 Dec 2021

Deep-sea mining gets a resounding rejection from conservation authorities

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Sep 2021

European public roundly rejects Brazil trade deal unless Amazon protected

Jenny Gonzales 16 Feb 2021
A canoe on the Maroni river, which forms the border between French Guiana and Suriname. Photo © Didier Gentilhomme.

France’s tropical forest conservation efforts: an interview with AFD’s Gilles Kleitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Dec 2020

French Guiana soy biofuel power plants risk massive Amazon deforestation

Justin Catanoso 2 Dec 2020

Meet the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 30 Nov 2020

France falls short in ending deforestation linked to imported soy

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2020

Better wines among the pines: Agroforestry can climate-proof grapes, French researchers show

Erik Hoffner 3 Jun 2020

Spiny lobsters raise an undersea racket that can be heard miles away

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2020

What one of the world’s most active volcanoes tells us about missing trees

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Apr 2020

Europe’s ‘ruthless’ animal attractions: Q & A with filmmaker Aaron Gekoski

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2019

These rare pigs can dig it. With a tool, that is. And moonwalk too

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2019

World Agroforestry Congress gathers huge group of global boosters in France

Erik Hoffner 21 May 2019
Shade grown coffee in Nicaragua. Image courtesy ICRAF/World Agroforestry

‘The ultimate agricultural practice’: Q&A with organizers of World Agroforestry Congress 2019

Erik Hoffner 20 Mar 2019
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

France pledges to stop ‘deforestation imports’ by 2030

Carinya Sharples 1 Feb 2019

Indonesia seeks to get palm oil used as jet fuel in U.S., France

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2018

Largest king penguin colony in the world has shrunk by 90%

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2018

Activists blast EU for extending deadline to ban palm oil in biofuels

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jun 2018

Meet the winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018

COP23: U.S., wealthy nations curtail climate aid for developing world

Justin Catanoso 16 Nov 2017

Should I stay, or should I go: is U.S. facing a climate scientist brain drain?

Sean Mowbray 15 Nov 2017

Poachers kill rhino at French zoo

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Mar 2017

French MPs say they were pressured into dropping palm oil tax

Mongabay.com 29 Jun 2016

Unclear if France will revisit ‘discriminatory’ palm oil tax

Loren Bell 6 Jun 2016

France imposes new palm oil tax; Indonesia, Malaysia protest

Mongabay.com 24 Mar 2016

Cambodian communities follow different routes to justice over Socfin rubber project

Greg Norman 13 Oct 2015

Progress being made in curbing illegal timber imports

Mongabay.com 25 Nov 2014

Bambi in the 21st Century: roe deer not adapting to climate change

Shreya Dasgupta 1 May 2014

‘Lost’ bird rediscovered in New Caledonia along with 16 potentially new species (photos)

Jeremy Hance 29 Oct 2013

France upholds nationwide ban on fracking

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2013

Local economy ruined by pesticide pollution in the Caribbean

Martine Valo 29 May 2013

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