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

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Mar 2025

UN accuses Indonesia’s No. 2 palm oil firm of rights & environmental abuses

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Mar 2025
A coal-fired power plant at night in the nickel industrial area in Halmahera.

US security think tank warns of China’s grip over Indonesian nickel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Feb 2025
Smoke billows from an incinerator at the Sheng Huang Industries Co., Ltd garment factory in Kampong Speu province. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Fashion has a coal problem, but the solutions are electrifying (commentary)

Peter Ford 28 Jan 2025

Coming to a retailer near you: Illegal palm oil from an orangutan haven

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jan 2025

Indonesian scientist under fire for revealing extent of illegal tin mining

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jan 2025
Weaving lungi by handloom at Dohar of Dhaka District. Image by Pervez Robin via Wikimedia Commons.

Bangladesh must move from ‘fast fashion’ to ‘defashion’ to improve human & ecological wellbeing (commentary)

Syed Muntasir Ridwan 8 Jan 2025
Deforestation for soy plantations and cattle ranches endanger the habitats of Amazon primates and prevent their movement to new locations. Rivers further limit the ability of small primates to move. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Sea change for soy champion Brazil as it wrestles with EUDR compliance

Karla Mendes 30 Dec 2024

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Annelise Giseburt 12 Dec 2024
Oil palm plantation

New standard for ethical palm oil faces backlash before it’s even issued

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Nov 2024
A farmer extracts cacao beans from the pods in Colombia.

Is the delay of Europe’s deforestation regulation a cause for regret, or an opportunity? (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 5 Nov 2024

Global biodiversity financiers strategize at COP16 to end ‘perverse subsidies’

Justin Catanoso 28 Oct 2024
A worker handling plywood sheets at Nature Flooring's factory in the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodian logging syndicate tied to major U.S. wood flooring supply chains

Gerald Flynn 21 Oct 2024
In June 2024, stacks of timber were seen piled outside Angkor Plywood's facility in Kandal province. Much of it is believed to be sourced from Cambodia's protected areas. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Angkor Plywood, the ‘timber cartel’ shipping Cambodian forests internationally

Gerald Flynn 14 Oct 2024
Why the EU must stand firm on its plan to help protect the world’s forests

US consumers may be exposed to deforestation-linked palm oil via dairy: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Sep 2024
An aerial view of illegally logged timber in Chhaeb-Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary that was documented on a patrol in April 2023 by members of the Prey Preah Roka Community Network – a grassroots activism group made up of communities around the wildlife sanctuary. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

World’s top timber companies are dropping the ball on ESG reporting: Analysis

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Aug 2024

Indonesia, EU reconcile forest data ahead of new rules on deforestation-free trade

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2024
A fisherman casts his net at a beach in Chennai, India.

WTO negotiations flounder — again — over banning unsustainable fishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 31 Jul 2024
Trees cut down for biomass.

Biomass power grows in Japan despite new understanding of climate risks

Annelise Giseburt 29 Jul 2024
Soil fertilization process in an oil palm plantation.

Indonesia’s oil palm smallholders get a boost in bid for sustainability

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jul 2024

Allegations widen against Indonesian palm oil giant Astra Agro Lestari

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2024

Indonesia must integrate marine protection with fisheries subsidies, study says

Basten Gokkon 29 Jun 2024
Green Phenix artist Erwin Sprot with one of his creations, a human figure made with beer crown caps.

Can the circular economy help the Caribbean win its war against waste?

Sandra Weiss 20 May 2024
Agribusiness Rush in the MATOPIBA Region.

EU law to reduce deforestation is on a knife’s edge, will leaders act? (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 25 Apr 2024

Brazil’s cattle industry could suffer major losses without climate policies, report says

Maxwell Radwin 10 Apr 2024
Deforestation for oil palm plantations in Sabah in 2012.

PalmWatch platform pushes for farm-to-fork traceability of palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Mar 2024

Ten years since anti-deforestation pledge, corporate world still not doing enough

Maxwell Radwin 6 Mar 2024
Fisher working with net of trawling vessel.

Stalemate: WTO talks again fail to end overfishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 5 Mar 2024

Major meatpacker JBS misled the public about sustainability efforts, NY lawsuit claims

Maxwell Radwin 1 Mar 2024
The LNG carrier Shahamah in Uraga Channel, Japan.

U.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts say

Shanna Hanbury 27 Feb 2024
A vast chunk of protected forest is being carved out of Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary. Sources claim Santana Agro is responsible. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

In Cambodia, an official’s cashew factory churns out timber from a protected forest

Gerald Flynn & Phoung Vantha 20 Feb 2024
Rubber latex collecting into a container in a rubber plantation in Thailand. Image by Eleanor W-T via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

To ease deforestation, natural rubber industry must ‘paddle hard’ (commentary)

Aidan Mock 30 Jan 2024

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