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Citizens demand sustainable solution to haze crisis in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 6 Jun 2023
Student activists at the Picture of Future Festival in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Latest environmentalist arrest shocks Vietnam’s battered civil society

Mongabay.com 2 Jun 2023
The endangered pig-nosed turtle, also known as the Fly River turtle, lives in northern Australian and southern New Guinea, including in the area Medco is operating in. Image by Jin Kemoole/Flickr.

Report: Forest-razing biomass plant in Indonesia got millions in green funds

Philip Jacobson 2 Jun 2023

The counterstrike: Brazilian Congress moves to block Lula’s environmental agenda

André Schröder 1 Jun 2023
Leader Vanda Ortega, of the indigenous Witoto people

Indigenous land rights key to curbing deforestation and restoring lands: Study

Roxanne Hoorn 1 Jun 2023

Strong like an oak tree: Guardians of the Juanacatlán forest in Mexico

Adriana Navarro Ramírez 31 May 2023
A tiger in the Sundarbans.

Bangladesh tries fences to tackle growing human-tiger conflict in Sundarbans

Rafiqul Islam 31 May 2023

New index identifies marine reserves that are protected in theory only

Juliette Portala 31 May 2023

Shipibo communities create Indigenous guard to protect Peruvian Amazon from deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 30 May 2023

Survival and economics complicate the DRC’s bushmeat and wild animal trade

John Cannon and Didier Makal 30 May 2023

Borders between Mercosur countries have become a hub for trafficking agrochemicals

Aldem Bourscheit (Brazil) and Aldo Benitez (Paraguay) 30 May 2023
Elephants and humans sharing space

In north Bangladesh, human-elephant conflicts signal need for greater protection

Abu Siddique 29 May 2023
Yellowfin tuna catch laid out on leaves.

As one Indian Ocean tuna stock faces collapse, nations scramble to save others

Malavika Vyawahare 29 May 2023

Agro giants buy grains from farmers fined for using Indigenous land in Brazil

André Campos and Naira Hofmeister from Repórter Brasil and Tatiana Merlino, João Peres, Leonardo Fuhrmann from O Joio e o Trigo 29 May 2023
A European eel (Anguilla anguilla) underwater.

Conservationists aim to save critically endangered European eels on Italy’s Po River

Lucrezia Lozza 26 May 2023
A farmer plants rice in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Deforestation linked to less rainfall, study shows; El Niño could make it worse

Jewel S. Cabrera 26 May 2023
Immaculée Nyirahabimana, a farmer from Rwanda.

Women decision-makers can improve conservation and agriculture, study shows

Abdulkareem Mojeed 25 May 2023

Forest conservation efforts in Peru are failing across the board, study says

Kimberley Brown 25 May 2023
David Antonioli at COP15 in 2009.

Head of Verra, top carbon credit certifier, to leave in June

John Cannon 25 May 2023
Nguy Thi Khanh.

Early release for imprisoned climate activist as Vietnam aims for net zero goals

Mongabay.com 24 May 2023
DRC copper Mine April 2017https://www.flickr.com/photos/fairphone/35456682034/in/photostream/

NGOs urge continued sanctions against DRC mining giant Dan Gertler

Elodie Toto 23 May 2023
The orange ground-thrush.

Fires threaten Afromontane forests’ ‘whole new world’: Q&A with Martim Melo

Ryan Truscott 22 May 2023

World Bank: Brazil faces $317 billion in annual losses to Amazon deforestation

Sarah Brown 19 May 2023
A yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis), known locally as tracajá, a species that is of cultural importance for the Juruna.

Second chance for Lula as controversial Amazon dam goes up for renewal

Dimitri Selibas 18 May 2023
Cleaning a beach in the Dominican Republic.

Sargassum surges in Mexico: From nuisance to new green industry?

Sandra Weiss 17 May 2023
Lúcio Tembé, chief of the Turé-Mariquita village in Tomé-Açu, northeastern Pará.

Indigenous chief shot in head in Brazil’s ‘palm oil war’ region; crisis group launched

Karla Mendes 16 May 2023
A youth leader demonstrates the impact of oil production on the local community.

As Shell, Eni quit Niger Delta, state-backed report describes legacy of carnage

Ashoka Mukpo 16 May 2023
Overhead shot of two men standing in shallow water, bent over repairing a large wooden canoe. Image by Bolaji Eiseke via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

For weary Niger Delta residents, shocking oil pollution report offers little hope

Ini Ekott 16 May 2023
Elder women members of the Kiday Farmers Community Association' proudly show a variety of heirloom seeds they store to support organic farmers in their riverside hamlet in Quezon province.

Organic farming, and community spirit, buoy a typhoon-battered Philippine town

Keith Anthony Fabro 15 May 2023
A northern pintail takes flight in the Tanguar Haor wetland.

Fewer migratory birds stopping at key Bangladesh wetland amid human disturbances

Abu Siddique 15 May 2023
Yuliana and Singapue, workers in an oil palm plantation

From palm oil waste to cellulosic ethanol: Indonesia’s opportunity (commentary)

Tenny Kristiana 12 May 2023
Brightly-coloured seals and white stenciled writing on the ends of logs at Gabon's Nkok SEZ. Image courtesy GSEZ.

Corruption threatens timber traceability in Nkok, Gabon

Elodie Toto 10 May 2023

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