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A fisherman cleans the plastic waste caught in his net.

New coalition focuses on ‘reuse’ to tackle top polluter Indonesia’s plastic waste problem

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2025
James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green hydrogen development threatens wildlife in Chile

Manuel Fonseca 18 Aug 2025
Food served on areca leaf and other biodegradable tableware.

Bangladesh turns to nature for biodegradable plates to replace plastic ones

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2025
Banner image of biochar by Thomas Diego Badia.

Cameroonians combat deforestation using cheaper charcoal alternative

Mongabay.com 18 Mar 2025
20/20 Catalysts, an intensive Indigenous clean energy capacity-building program, at the Nanticoke Solar Project in Six Nations of the Grand River in the summer of 2022.

Indigenous communities make clean energy drive work for, not against, them

Sarah Sax 3 Jun 2024

To wipe or to wash? That is the question

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Sandy Watt 31 May 2024
The James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green credentials of electric vehicles come under fire

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 23 May 2024
Sargassum in Villa Clara province, Cuba.

Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution

Marlowe Starling 16 Apr 2024
Active clearance and drainage of peatland rainforest in a concession run by PT Asia Tani Persada, which is also an orangutan habitat.

Toilet paper: Environmentally impactful, but alternatives are rolling out

Petro Kotzé 15 Mar 2024
Protesting farmers on their way to the Hague in 2019.

The Dutch farmers’ protests of 2022: A Mongabay Series

Ashoka Mukpo 14 Sep 2023
Coal protest in Indonesia

Indonesian voters want a clean energy plan, but candidates haven’t delivered

Basten Gokkon 6 Sep 2023
Cleaning a beach in the Dominican Republic.

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

Sandra Weiss 17 May 2023
Nevada lithium battery

Scramble for clean energy metals confronted by activist calls to respect Indigenous rights

Sarah Sax 21 Apr 2023
A beetle on an Inírida flower.

How a rare Colombian flower cultivated with Indigenous know-how is changing lives

Soraya Kishtwari 18 Aug 2022

Community empowerment and forest conservation grow from the galip nut in Papua New Guinea

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Apr 2022

International funding nowhere near enough for Indonesia to cut emissions: Study

Basten Gokkon 15 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

Tukupu: The women of the Kariña community, guardians of Venezuela’s forests

Astrid Arellano 2 Feb 2022
Port of Long Beach, California in February 2020. Photo: NASA Landsat

Visions of a post-supply chain society (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 27 Dec 2021

Brazil’s Suzano boasts its pulpwood plantations are green; critics disagree

Sue Branford 15 Dec 2021
Gorilla in Gabon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

How to find the right NGO partner without shooting yourself in the foot (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 6 Sep 2021

Climate change threatens traditional extractive communities in the Amazon

Sibélia Zanon 30 Aug 2021
Community Conservation. photo credit: Monica Dalmasso for Honeyguide

Convergence, community and justice: Key emerging conservation trends of the pandemic era (commentary)

Fred Nelson 24 Aug 2021

Brazil punching below its weight in getting forest products to the world

Juliana Ennes 23 Aug 2021

Everything is traceable – unless you don’t want it to be (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 18 Aug 2021

Old and new solutions pave way to net-zero emissions farming, studies show

Claire Asher 30 Jul 2021

New report provides road map for expanding chestnut agroforestry in the U.S.

Sarah Derouin 30 Jul 2021
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Farmers in the Amazon could earn 9 times more and prevent ecosystem collapse

Jonah Wittkamper; Alexander Borges Rose; and Denis Minev 22 Jun 2021
California redwoods. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Nature is no longer “a nice to have,” it’s “a must-have”: Q&A with André Hoffmann

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Apr 2021
Satellite image of Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand in February 2021. Photo credit: Maxar Technologies and Planet.

‘Everything on this planet is connected’: Q&A with WWF’s Marco Lambertini

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2021
Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

How to turn climate ambitions into reality: Q&A with Nigel Topping

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jan 2021
Elephants in Namibia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

Investing in African wildlife: An interview with David Bonderman

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Jan 2021

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