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A rice farmer harvesting in rice fields.

There is not enough land to meet many of the world’s climate pledges, says new study

Sandra Cuffe 1 Nov 2022

As Brazil starts repaving an Amazon highway, land grabbers get to work

Caio Guatelli 13 Oct 2022

Mangroves and wildlife in Bornean bay at risk from Indonesia’s new capital

Basten Gokkon, Richaldo Hariandja 7 Oct 2022
A recently contacted Machiguenga girlon the outskirts of Manu National Park in Cusco. Image by Ronald Reategui.

Amazon reserve for uncontacted people moving forward amid battle over oil fields

Dimitri Selibas 30 Sep 2022
An iceberg floats in Disko Bay, near Ilulissat, Greenland, on July 24, 2015. The massive Greenland ice sheet is shedding about 300 gigatons of ice a year into the ocean, making it the single largest source of sea level rise from melting ice. Image by NASA/Saskia Madlener via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Greenland’s Indigenous population favors extracting sand from melting ice sheet

Moira Donovan 27 Sep 2022
A cattle herder in a cattle camp

Debunking the colonial myth of the ‘African Eden’: Q&A with author Guillaume Blanc

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Sep 2022

‘Brazilians aren’t familiar with the Amazon’: Q&A with Ângela Mendes

Carolina Conti 1 Sep 2022
Residents paddle a boat down a flooded street in Bojongasih village.

Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’

Donny Iqbal 31 Aug 2022
Hutan Keramat Penyabungan

Encircled by plantations, a Sumatran Indigenous community abides changing times

Suryadi 22 Aug 2022
Cattle ranch in Mato Grosso

New Brazil bill puts cattle pasture over Pantanal wetland

Sarah Brown 9 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

Study: Marine governance in Indonesia pursues exploitation over sustainability

Basten Gokkon 23 Jun 2022
Brazil. Composite: João Laet/AFP/Getty Images (left); Daniel Marenco/Agência O Globo (right)

The war on journalists and environmental defenders in the Amazon continues (commentary)

Karla Mendes 16 Jun 2022
Clearing the site with dynamite to access the vein of coal in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

In Indonesian Borneo, a succession of extractive industries multiplies impacts, social fractures

Elizabeth Fitt 13 Jun 2022

New near-real-time tool reveals Earth’s land cover in more detail than ever before

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2022
Ranchers who received customized training made more sustainable changes to their properties, including pasture restoration, that led to both economic and environmental benefits, researchers say.

Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil’s cattle ranchers and forests

Sarah Brown 12 May 2022
Harvesting oranges near Sicily, Italy.

Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change

John Cannon 28 Apr 2022
In lab animals and humans, dysfunction of the gut microbiome has been linked to digestive diseases.

Unseen crisis: Threatened gut microbiome also offers hope for world

Claire Asher 26 Apr 2022
A lesser adjutant stork in a farm.

Study: Farmland birds in Nepal, India in dire need of conservation action

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Apr 2022
A Komodo dragon.

‘No’ to corporate-driven tourism development in Komodo National Park (commentary)

Venansius Haryanto 19 Apr 2022
A power plant under construction in Bangladesh.

Sluggish growth of renewables threatens Bangladesh’s clean-energy goals

Abu Siddique 19 Apr 2022
Nepal Chepan Community house razed

Razing of Indigenous hamlet highlights Nepal’s conservation challenge

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Apr 2022

Fate of Indonesian rainforest the size of Belgium hangs in the balance (commentary)

Sam Lawson 17 Mar 2022

El Salvador declares rare ‘red alert’ amid surge in forest fires

Maxwell Radwin 4 Mar 2022

More coffee, less gold: Sumatra farmers alarmed over revival of mine project

Junaidi Hanafiah 24 Feb 2022

John Deere and Brazilian bank team up to equip farmers deforesting the Amazon

Andressa Santa Cruz, Naira Hofmeister and Pedro Papini 14 Feb 2022

‘We should be pretty concerned’: Study shows only 15% of coastal regions still intact

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Feb 2022
Deforestation for oil palm in Malaysian Borneo.

Even degraded forests are more ecologically valuable than none, study shows

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 7 Feb 2022
Baka people

Indigenous hunter-gatherers in Cameroon diversify food sources in the face of change

Laurel Sutherland 1 Feb 2022

Indonesia aims for sustainable fish farming with ‘aquaculture villages’

Luh De Suriyani, M Ambari 7 Jan 2022

Urban ecology that saved Argentina’s Rosario held up as a model for others

Christa Avampato 31 Dec 2021
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

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