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Can land titles save Madagascar’s embattled biodiversity and people?

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Aug 2023

Fair winds or fowl: Clean energy clashes with conservation in Brazil’s Caatinga

Suzana Camargo 14 Aug 2023
A local community member who works at an oil palm plantation in Liberia pushing a cart of the harvest.

Investigation confirms most allegations against plantation operator Socfin

Victoria Schneider 11 Aug 2023

Video: Five Tembé Indigenous activists shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’

Karla Mendes 11 Aug 2023
A farmer in a rice paddy field.

Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields

Claire Turrell 11 Aug 2023
A channel-billed toucan in Yasuní National Park.

Can upcoming referendum in Ecuador stop oil drilling in Yasuní National Park?

Kimberley Brown 11 Aug 2023
A coral reef and fish in the mouth of the Amazon River.

Amazon Summit nations agree on saving rainforest — but not on conservation goals

Sarah Brown 11 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: The Guri complex and the Caroni Cascade

Timothy J. Killeen 11 Aug 2023
A rhino in the orphanage at the Platinum Rhino project site.

World’s largest private rhino herd doesn’t have a buyer — or much of a future

Jim Tan 11 Aug 2023

The oil debt: More than 6,000 polluted sites fester across Amazonian countries

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo, Yvette Sierra Praeli 11 Aug 2023

Brazilian authorities launch probe into ‘Amazon’s largest single deforester’

André Schröder 10 Aug 2023
Traffic on road.

EVs offer climate hope, but total auto supply chain revamp is vital

Sean Mowbray 10 Aug 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron

Macron touts forest conservation while promoting gas project on PNG visit

Rachel Donald 10 Aug 2023

Captive to coal: Indonesia to burn even more fossil fuel for green tech

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Aug 2023
Global map of the oceans including elevation. Image courtesy of Esri.

To protect the oceans, we must map them (commentary)

Dawn Wright 10 Aug 2023
EarthRanger Director Jes Lefcourt testing EarthRanger Mobile in northern Kenya.

Wildlife management platform EarthRanger goes mobile with new app

Abhishyant Kidangoor 10 Aug 2023
A rescued falcon, likely a peregrine

Falcon trafficking soars in Middle East, fueled by conflict and poverty

Lyse Mauvais 10 Aug 2023

Zika, dengue transmission expected to rise with climate change

Luís Patriani 9 Aug 2023
Ali Garama, the Kuruwitu BMU chairman.

Kenyan fishers put new twists on an age-old marine conservation system

Anthony Langat 9 Aug 2023
Indigenous activists demand justice after five from their communities were shot.

Indigenous activists demand justice after 5 shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’

Karla Mendes 9 Aug 2023
Biologist Mario Moscatelli (right) supervises the work of a colleague during the replanting of mangroves in Jardim Gramacho, close to a disused dump. The area is the most polluted part of the bay and exists under the shadow of the city’s infamous criminal organizations.

Rio de Janeiro’s defender of mangroves

Mongabay.com 9 Aug 2023
A worker fertilizing on oil palm plantation in Papua, Indonesia.

New farmers foundation supports deforestation-free products in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Aug 2023
Brazil’s thin-spined porcupine (Chaetomys subspinosus).

Translocation is a viable option for Brazil’s threatened porcupines: Study

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 9 Aug 2023
Aerial view of traffic.

Internal combustion vs. EVs: Learning from the past to boost sustainability

Sean Mowbray 9 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: A shift toward reduced impact facilities, but the controversy continues

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Aug 2023
Asian elephant in Krau Wildlife Reserve, Malaysia

Asian elephants’ picky diet helps shape their forest home, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 9 Aug 2023

Protecting the Amazon requires fresh thinking, veteran ecologist argues

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Aug 2023
Mangroves in Raja Ampat. Photo credit: Rhett A Butler

Study shows how to maximize mangroves as climate and community solution

Sílvia Lisboa, Maurício Brum 8 Aug 2023
Along the Via Auca, it is common to find patches of deforested land that will later be planted with agricultural or agroforestry crops.

Oil palm and balsa plantations trigger deforestation in Ecuadorian Amazon

Ana Cristina Alvarado 8 Aug 2023

Indonesian illegal shark and ray exports remain rampant amid poor monitoring

Asad Asnawi 8 Aug 2023

‘Sustainability is a continuous journey’: Q&A with RSPO’s Joseph D’Cruz

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2023
A tiger (Panthera tigris) recorded on a camera trap in Bhutan during the national tiger census 2021-2022. Image courtesy of WWF-US.

As Bhutan reports big boost in tigers, coexistence strategies become necessary (commentary)

Dechen Dorji 8 Aug 2023

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