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Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?

Maxwell Radwin 7 Feb 2023
Palm oil estate worker

Indonesia and Malaysia assail new EU ban on ‘dirty commodities’ trade

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jan 2023

Dammed, now mined: Indigenous Brazilians fight for the Xingu River’s future

Andrew Johnson 12 Jan 2023

Weakening of agrarian reform program increases violence against settlers in Brazilian Amazon

Andrew Johnson 10 Jan 2023

Indonesia prosecutors decry ‘lenient’ sentences in palm oil corruption case

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2023

For Indonesian smallholders, EU deforestation rule is a threat — and an opportunity

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jan 2023
Aerial photo of riparian forest and deforestation for soy.

‘Amazing first step’ as EU law cracks down on deforestation-linked imports

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Dec 2022

New protections for sharks, songbirds, frogs and more at CITES trade summit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Nov 2022

With new EU rules ahead, Indonesia adds sustainability to its timber legality system

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Nov 2022

Should more wildlife trade be legal and regulated? It’s complicated, say scientists

James Fair 11 Nov 2022

EU ‘moving the goal posts’ with new timber requirement, Indonesia says

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Nov 2022

Sustainability pledges help Indonesia produce palm oil with less deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Oct 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but solutions await

Liz Kimbrough 4 Aug 2022
Farmers harvesting wheat in Ukraine in the 1990s.

Did Wall Street play a role in this year’s wheat price crisis?

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Jul 2022
Fishers in Siompu, Southeast Sulawesi with their daily catch. September 2019. Photo credit: Rare.

WTO ban on ‘harmful’ subsidies won’t impact small-scale fishers, Indonesia says

Basten Gokkon 29 Jun 2022
Oil palm nursery and processing facility, Indonesia.

Indonesian palm oil audit a chance to clean up ‘very dirty’ industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jun 2022

WTO finally nets deal curbing fisheries subsidies, but tables key bits for later

Elizabeth Fitt 17 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

Slick operator: Indonesian cooking oil probe may spread to biodiesel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 May 2022

With ban on palm oil exports, Indonesia reaps condemnation and praise

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2022
Oil palm kernels

Indonesian trade official, palm oil execs charged in cooking oil crisis

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2022
Piñatex fibers in the drying stage. The pineapple leaf fiber has great tensile strength and flexibility. Image courtesy of Riikka Juva/Ananas Anam.

Sustainable fashion: Biomaterial revolution replacing fur and skins

Jenny Gonzales 8 Apr 2022

For Indonesians, palm oil is everywhere but on supermarket shelves

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

‘Giving up’: Amazon is losing its resilience under human pressure, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2022

Study links many reported fisheries crimes to just a few repeat offenders

Annelise Giseburt 24 Mar 2022
Illegally logged rosewood from Masoala and Marojejy in Antalaha, Madagascar, circa 2005.

Kenya court orders return of $13m in seized rosewood to suspected traffickers

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Dec 2021
Seized sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleonora) in East Java, Indonesia.

Indonesia ranks high on legal wildlife trade, but experts warn it masks illegal trade

Basten Gokkon 3 Dec 2021

Latest delay casts pall over WTO bid to end harmful fishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 2 Dec 2021

EU proposes ambitious ban on products tied to legal and illegal deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 19 Nov 2021

In harm’s way: Our actions put people and wildlife at risk of disease

Sharon Guynup 20 Oct 2021

Changes to global fisheries subsidies could level the playing field for traditional coastline communities

Gladstone Taylor 18 Oct 2021

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