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‘That’s a scam’: Indian firm’s REDD+ carbon deal in the DRC raises concern

John Cannon 14 Jun 2022
African buffalo in Kenya. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Latest ‘plan for the planet’ calls for protecting 44% of land, home to 1.8b humans

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Jun 2022
A coffee seedling nursery at Yayu, with forest in background.

Coal mining threatens Ethiopia’s ancient coffee forest

Kaleab Girma 14 Jun 2022

Indonesia issues long-delayed rules to protect migrant fishing workers

Basten Gokkon 14 Jun 2022
A northern cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus).

Proposed copper and gold mine threatens the world’s ‘second Amazon’ in PNG

John Cannon 13 Jun 2022
Maasai people in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.

World is losing ‘magical’ tradition of human-animal mutualism, study warns

Ryan Truscott 13 Jun 2022

Loggers close in on one of the world’s oldest biosphere reserves

Gloria Pallares 13 Jun 2022
Eliupendo Laltaika interviewing a member of the Sonjo community.

‘GPS’ bird points to the sweet spot: Q&A with honey hunter Eliupendo Laltaika

Ryan Truscott 13 Jun 2022
Clearing the site with dynamite to access the vein of coal in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

In Indonesian Borneo, a succession of extractive industries multiplies impacts, social fractures

Elizabeth Fitt 13 Jun 2022
Rosewood flowering

Overexploited and underprotected: Study urges action on Asia’s rosewoods

Carolyn Cowan 13 Jun 2022

The curious case of the Sri Lankan national flower that wasn’t

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Jun 2022

For companies shopping for quality carbon credits, a new guide offers help

Maxwell Radwin 10 Jun 2022

Even Antarctic snow can’t escape the plastic peril, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2022

Report clears Kenyan conservancy of community abuse, but advocates cry foul

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Jun 2022

For Thai fishers facing dwindling catches, a Lao dam looms large

Tom Fawthrop 10 Jun 2022
View of the Nangaritza valley from near Las Orquideas. Photo by Andrew Neil via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Illegal mining threatens one of the last forest links between the Andes and Ecuador’s Amazon

Jackeline Beltrán 10 Jun 2022

Satellites show deforestation surging in Indonesia’s Tesso Nilo National Park

Zamzami｜Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Jun 2022

In Sri Lankan waters, endangered but unprotected rays encounter a killing field

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Jun 2022

Environmental paradise or dystopian debacle? Promise and peril of futuristic island communities (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 9 Jun 2022

Ray care center: Indonesia’s Raja Ampat a key nursery for young reef mantas

Basten Gokkon 9 Jun 2022
Christina Haverkamp (center), founder of the German NGO Hilfe Yanomami, with Indigenous children. The activist has been going to Brazil since the 1990s and says wildcat miners are disrupting the life of the Yanomami people. Image courtesy of Hilfe Yanomami.

At 30, Brazil’s Yanomami reserve is beset by mining, malaria and mercury

Peter Speetjens 9 Jun 2022

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

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2022

For traditional peoples in Brazil’s Maranhão state, progress brings violence

Ed Wilson Araújo 9 Jun 2022
Snow leopard at ease in its high-mountain habitat. Image courtesy of Madhu Chetri.

‘Protecting snow leopards benefits other species’: Q&A with Rinzin Phunjok Lama

Abhaya Raj Joshi 9 Jun 2022
A single-use plastic water bottle found by a snorkeller in The Gili Islands, Indonesia.

Indonesia should take a leadership role in the Global Plastics Treaty (commentary)

Aristyo Rizka Darmawan, Bella Nathania 8 Jun 2022
“Naná" Gracia is an Indigenous P'urhépecha midwife, seen here in her ekuarho with granddaughter Alma in Angahuan, Michoachán, Mexico. Image by Monica Pelliccia for Mongabay.

Indigenous agroforestry dying of thirst amid a sea of avocados in Mexico

Monica Pelliccia 8 Jun 2022
Chinese pond heron

Chinese pond heron spotted in Nepal for first time

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Jun 2022

New study offers answers for why tropical birds are more colorful

Suzana Camargo 8 Jun 2022
Manta rays with reef fish.

‘Tendrils of hope’ for the ocean: Q&A with conservationist Charles Clover

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 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

Report sums up wealth of Sri Lanka’s biodiversity — and the threats it faces

Malaka Rodrigo 7 Jun 2022

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