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Wood chips piled in mounds more than 6 meters (20 feet) high cover the lot of the Enviva wood pellet plant in Ahoskie, North Carolina. Enviva says that it uses wood waste to produce pellets. The whistleblower and Mongabay’s on site investigation at a North Carolina clear-cut site and at the Ahoskie plant provided evidence to the contrary. Image by Justin Catanoso for Mongabay.

The Netherlands to stop paying subsidies to ‘untruthful’ biomass firms

Justin Catanoso 23 Dec 2022

Australia rejects forest biomass in first blow to wood pellet industry

Justin Catanoso 21 Dec 2022

As EU finalizes renewable energy plan, forest advocates condemn biomass

Justin Catanoso 7 Dec 2022
A deforestated site in Edenton, North Carolina.

Whistleblower: Enviva claim of ‘being good for the planet… all nonsense’

Justin Catanoso 5 Dec 2022

Blue jeans: An iconic fashion item that’s costing the planet dearly

Jenny Gonzales 17 Nov 2022
Jaguar skin for sale at the Belen market

A fast-growing pipeline: The Amazon-to-Southeast Asia wildlife trade

Sharon Guynup 18 Oct 2022
A man fishing in Brazil

Putting a price on water: Can commodification resolve a world water crisis?

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 30 Sep 2022

EU votes to keep woody biomass as renewable energy, ignores climate risk

Justin Catanoso 16 Sep 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia

Annelise Giseburt 29 Aug 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
Illegal gold mining inside the Munduruku and Sai Cinza Indigenous Lands

Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 27 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
Wood chips for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway. Image by Statkraft via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?

Annelise Giseburt 19 May 2022

EU Parliament’s Environment Committee urges scale back of biomass burning

Justin Catanoso 18 May 2022
Timber for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway

Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia

Justin Catanoso 11 May 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

Activists vow to take EU to court to fight its forest biomass policies

Justin Catanoso 14 Mar 2022

COP26: E.U. is committed to forest biomass burning to cut fossil fuel use

Justin Catanoso 10 Nov 2021

COP26: Surging wood pellet industry threatens climate, say experts

Sharon Guynup 9 Nov 2021
Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

New restoration “Playbook” calls for political, economic, and social change

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2021
New York, NY - January 7, 2020: Former Vice President & Democratic hopeful Joe Biden made foreign policy statement at Current on Pier 59, Lev Radin for Shutterstock

Scientists urge Biden to remove logging, fossil fuels, biomass from budget bills

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2021
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

COP26 deforestation-ending commitment must hold leaders accountable (commentary)

Steve Trent 3 Nov 2021

COP26 Glasgow Declaration: Salvation or threat to Earth’s forests?

Justin Catanoso 3 Nov 2021

Forest biomass-burning supply chain is producing major carbon emissions: Studies

Justin Catanoso 15 Oct 2021
Old growth trees in Olympic National Park. Image courtesy of Matt Shiffler Photography via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Old-growth forests of Pacific Northwest could be key to climate action

Justin Catanoso 1 Sep 2021

Burning forests to make energy: EU and world wrestle with biomass science

Justin Catanoso 19 Aug 2021

The science of forest biomass: Conflicting studies map the controversy

Justin Catanoso 12 Jul 2021

Demand for soy puts pressure on Pantanal, Brazil’s largest wild wetland

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 23 Jun 2021

Forest advocates press EU leader to rethink views on biomass and energy

Justin Catanoso 15 Jun 2021

Leaders make bold climate pledges, but is it ‘all just smoke and mirrors?’: Critics

Justin Catanoso 23 Apr 2021

With British Columbia’s last old-growth at risk, government falters: Critics

Justin Catanoso 20 Apr 2021

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