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A cup of coffee with beans and a teaspoon on a stump tabletop. Image by Anja (cocoparisiene) from Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).

Soaring coffee prices are fueled by deforestation, but solutions exist

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Jun 2025
California Wildfires in August 2018.

Climate futures: What’s ahead for our world beyond 1.5°C of warming?

Claire Asher 12 Jun 2025
Students in Afghanistan walk to school in a sand storm during a drought in 2019.

Climate futures: World leaders’ failure to act is pushing Earth past 1.5°C

Claire Asher 11 Jun 2025
Deslin Kalaeng with some yam.

On remote Indonesia karst outpost, Indigenous farmers fear the silence of the yams

Sarjan Lahay 9 Jun 2025
A worker carries a yellowfin tuna on his shoulders at Dong Gang wholesale fish market, Taiwan.

Bumble Bee asks court to dismiss lawsuit alleging forced labor in tuna supply chain

Basten Gokkon 6 Jun 2025
Representatives from several associations submit an open letter to the UNFCCC, stating that climate finance must adhere to the principle of historical responsibility for the climate change by wealthy industrialized countries by repaying the 'ecological debt' to developing countries in the Global South.

Carbon capture projects promise a climate fix — and a fossil fuel lifeline

Nithin Coca 4 Jun 2025
Legal counsel with the 27 residents who were arrested at the North Maluku Regional Police headquarters, May 19

Police in Indonesia’s Halmahera Island charge 11 farmers in latest nickel flashpoint

Rabul Sawal 3 Jun 2025
Areca leaves and plates.

With areca leaves and rice bran, Bangladesh replaces single-use plastic tableware

Abu Siddique 30 May 2025
Sarmi, a resident of Gupit village, Nguter district, who is a representative of residents in a class action lawsuit against PT. RUM, which caused pollution. Her house was decorated with murals in solidarity as a sign of the residents' struggle.

Central Java villages take fast fashion to the cleaners at Indonesia’s Supreme Court

T. Handoko 26 May 2025
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on April 21, 2025. Image by Tailyr Irvine/Grist.

At the U.N., mining groups tout protections for Indigenous peoples

Anna V. Smith 9 May 2025
Tsimi Judith harvesting the Gnetum (okok) in the village of Minwoho, Lekié, Center Region, Cameroon.

Report shows policy gaps in safeguarding the carbon rights of forest communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 May 2025
A mother and baby chimpanzee in the mangroves of Conkouati-Douli National Park.

Protected parks in peril as Republic of Congo ramps up oil drilling

Elodie Toto 7 May 2025
Greater Greener Gloster community members stand in front of the state capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, as they demand the cleanup of the Drax pellet mill

Wood pellet maker Drax denied pollution permit after small town Mississippi outcry

Justin Catanoso 1 May 2025
Lotus plants grow in abundance in the wetlands of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh starts a sustainable luxury fashion journey with lotus ‘silk’

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 30 Apr 2025
eucalyptus forest

Eucalyptus for Brazil’s steelmaking dries out communities in Minas Gerais

Daniel Camargos, Emmanuelle Picaud, Simone Fant 29 Apr 2025
Banner image of a forest in Finland by kallerna via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How did Finland lead the pursuit of a circular economy? Mongabay podcast explores

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2025
An aerial view of mining operations run by KP Cement, Vantage Mining and others inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in October 2023. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cement factory approved inside Cambodia’s Prey Lang sanctuary despite mining ban

Gerald Flynn 28 Apr 2025
Banner image of an electric vehicle charging by andreas160578 via Pixabay.

EV supply chain & transport need redesign, Mongabay podcast shows

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2025
Starbucks Logo on the Wall

Report accuses Starbucks of tax avoidance through ‘ethical’ Swiss subsidiary

Alex Shaw 24 Apr 2025
A squat lobster in the deep sea.

With deep-sea mining plans in limbo, Norwegian companies fold or dig in

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Apr 2025

Palm oil company uses armed forces, tear gas against protesting villagers in Cameroon

Victoria Schneider, Yannick Kenné 4 Apr 2025
Farmer in Mozambique. The price for Europe's packing paper boom

The price of Europe’s paper packaging boom

Boaventura Monjane, Davide Mancini, Juan Maza 2 Apr 2025
Greenpeace activists from New Zealand and Mexico confront TMC’s deep-sea mining vessel, “Hidden Gem,” off the coast of Manzanillo, Mexico, in 2022. Image by © Gustavo Graf / Greenpeace.

Deep-sea miner TMC seeks U.S. approval, potentially bypassing global regulator

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Mar 2025
Fishing vessel. Image courtesy of Nicolas Job / Ocean Image Bank.

Panama conducts large illegal fishing bust in protected Pacific waters

Edward Carver 28 Mar 2025
Dutch forest advocates Maarten Visschers and Fenna Swart (right) protest the burning of forest biomass for energy outside Vattenfall's headquarters in Amsterdam in 2021.

Netherlands’ largest forest biomass plant canceled, forest advocates elated

Justin Catanoso 27 Mar 2025
Women living near the Socapalm plantation in Edéa take part in a demonstration against replanting in January 2025. Image courtesy of Félicité Ngo Bissou/AFRISE.

New allegations of abuse against oil palm giant Socfin in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 24 Mar 2025
Repsol’s 2022 oil spill contaminated two protected areas.

5 takeaways from the 2022 Repsol oil spill in Peru

Mongabay Latam 24 Mar 2025
Banner image of a housing estate in Australia by Calistemon via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Housing affordability through sustainability? Mongabay podcast explores

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2025

Rep from American Samoa calls for opening protected Pacific waters to tuna fishing

Edward Carver 19 Mar 2025
Plastic People film poster.

Microplastic within humans now a health crisis: Interview with ‘Plastic People’ filmmakers

Liz Kimbrough 19 Mar 2025
Logging operation for timber Brazilian Amazon.

EUDR compliance costs to be minimal, report finds — but industry disagrees

John Cannon 18 Mar 2025
Coconut plantations on Gebe Island threatened by nickel mining.

Nickel miners dig up Indonesia’s Gebe Island despite Indigenous and legal opposition

Jaya Barends 11 Mar 2025

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