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Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Dec 2024
Cutting a tree with a chainsaw.

Land use change impacting seven planetary boundaries, solutions urgent, say scientists

Sean Mowbray 2 Dec 2024

Satellite data show bursts of deforestation continue in Indonesian national park

Spoorthy Raman 30 Nov 2024
Satellite imagery captured September 2024 by Planet Labs shows a fire burning along the boundary between Xingu Indigenous Park and Capoto/Jarina Indigenous Territory. The territories are surrounded by denuded industrial farm fields.

Fires rip through Indigenous territories in Brazilian Amazon

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Nov 2024
Oluwa's forest are home to many species threatened with extinction, including this red-capped mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus). Image by Rufus46 via Wikimedia Commons (CC SA 3.0).

A Nigerian reserve, once a stronghold for chimps, is steadily losing its forest to farming

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Nov 2024

Communities band together to save besieged reserve in Bolivia

Iván Paredes Tamayo 20 Nov 2024

Using regenerative agriculture to heal the land and help communities: Q&A with Kaleka founder Silvia Irawan

Louise Hunt 12 Nov 2024
An oil palm farmer in Benin extracting palm oil.

Smallholders offer mixed reactions to calls for delay in EU deforestation law

Aimee Gabay 1 Nov 2024

Six months after its worst floods, Rio Grande do Sul works to bounce back

Shi En Kim 28 Oct 2024

Global biodiversity financiers strategize at COP16 to end ‘perverse subsidies’

Justin Catanoso 28 Oct 2024
Image de banniere : Travailleurs de PHC avec des gallons de pesticides dans la plantation de Yaligimba. Image © Luciana Téllez/Human Rights Watch

DRC communities turn up heat on EU lenders funding palm oil giant PHC

Yannick Kenné 12 Aug 2024
Freshly harvested oil palm fruits.

Indonesia palm oil lobby pushes 1 million hectares of new Sulawesi plantations

Sarjan Lahay 8 Aug 2024
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

Shrimp farms threaten Mexico’s mangroves and the jaguars that inhabit them

Sarah Brown 11 Jul 2024
A bee with a sunflower in Tokyo.

It’s the bee’s needs: Study finds best plants for bee health, conservation

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jul 2024

Colombian victims win historic lawsuit over banana giant Chiquita

Aimee Gabay 1 Jul 2024

Investigation confirms more abuses on Cameroon, Sierra Leone Socfin plantations

Victoria Schneider 27 Jun 2024
A coffee farmer in Colombia.

‘Water grabs’ pose big threat to farmers amid water crises

Aimee Gabay 21 Jun 2024
Cattle by the side of the road in Brazilian Amazon. Image by Kate Evans/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

The harsh, dangerous gig of seizing thousands of illegal cattle in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 13 Jun 2024
Joseph Kirimbwa, a coffee farmer in Uganda and a member of a Nespresso program that hires and manages coffee plantations in Africa.

With an eye on EU’s new rules, scientists test ways to capture Africa’s forest loss

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Jun 2024
Coffee beans on a plant.

As coffee expands in Bangladesh hills, conservationists worry about ecosystems

Abu Siddique 21 May 2024
A worker at a rubber plantation at PT Alam Lestari Nusantara. Image by Rubber tapping workers at PL ALN.

Desperation sets in for Indigenous Sumatrans who lost their forests to plantations

Teguh Suprayitno 9 May 2024
A cattle ranch in a deforeated area.

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Apr 2024

Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenous land – investigation

Andrew Wasley, Aramís Castro, Elisângela Mendonça 18 Apr 2024

Report links H&M and Zara to major environmental damage in biodiverse Cerrado

Dimitri Selibas 17 Apr 2024
A farmer shows an unpeeled corn.

Fertilizer management could reduce ammonia pollution from 3 staple crops: Study

Claire Asher 18 Mar 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
Johan Rockström.

Planetary boundary pioneer Johan Rockström awarded 2024 Tyler Prize

Glenn Scherer 29 Feb 2024
A vast chunk of protected forest is being carved out of Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary. Sources claim Santana Agro is responsible. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

In Cambodia, an official’s cashew factory churns out timber from a protected forest

Gerald Flynn & Phoung Vantha 20 Feb 2024
A female western hoolock gibbon with its baby.

Herbicide used in Bangladesh tea production threatens biodiversity & health

Farhana Parvin 19 Feb 2024

In Brazil’s soy belt, community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon

Ana Ionova 15 Feb 2024
Christine Maïsali, a victim of a work accident on SOSUCAM's plantations, with her husband, Farwe Kossombele.

Labor abuse and work accidents on plantations of Cameroon’s largest sugar producer

Yannick Kenné 31 Jan 2024
A harvester harvesting soy in Brazil.

Meet the think tank behind the agribusiness’ legislative wins in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jan 2024

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