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The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How a ‘green gold rush’ in the Amazon led to dubious carbon deals on Indigenous lands

Gloria Pallares 11 Nov 2025
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Three tracks to rescue 1.5°C: fossil exit, forest protection, and nature’s carbon (commentary)

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho 8 Nov 2025
Logging operation in Sweden. Image courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

Why Sweden’s forest policy matters to the world (commentary)

Emil Siekkinen 7 Nov 2025
By fusing satellite, drone and ground-based data with AI-powered analytics, Earth observation systems now provide meter-scale insights (or finer) for key human-driven environmental impacts.

Report identifies 10 emerging tech solutions to enhance planetary health

Julian Reingold 4 Nov 2025

Suriname’s plan to capitalize on carbon: Q&A with President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons

Maxwell Radwin 4 Nov 2025
Rainforest in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Beyond deforestation: redesigning how we protect and value tropical forests (analysis)

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2025
Koala in captivity. Image by Till Niermann.

Australia to create a national park for 12,000 koalas

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Oct 2025
A participant plants local green plants in a park as part of Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative, which aims to plant 7.5 billion trees by the end of the year, at Jifara Ber site, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday, July 31, 2025.

There’s far less land available for reforestation than we think, study finds

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2025

Global CO2 storage capacity may be drastically overstated, study finds

John Cannon 22 Sep 2025
Rainforest in the Western Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Setting the record straight on Jurisdictional REDD+: The case of Brazil

Luiza Muccillo, Daniel Nepstad, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta, Monica de los Rios, Thuanny Vieira 21 Sep 2025
Aerial view of West Kalimantan

Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds

Claire Asher 16 Sep 2025
Rainforest creek in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

The carbon market paradox: Steve Zwick on why financing forests is more complicated than it looks

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Sep 2025
Climate change threatens to disrupt the soil carbon cycle, potentially releasing billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere and overshadowing international decarbonization efforts.

Soil carbon: Crucial ally or potential threat to net-zero commitments?

Claire Asher 3 Sep 2025
Long Moh community member Kuleh and SAVE Rivers staff Samban Tugang at carbon workshop April 2025. Image courtesy of Fiona McAlpine / Borneo Project.

Carbon offset markets are unfair to communities in Borneo & beyond (commentary)

Fiona McAlpine 29 Aug 2025
2017's Jones Fire in Oregon, U.S.

Old forests, new fires, and a scientific standoff over active management

John Cannon 18 Aug 2025
A crew of firefighters fights the Vees Fire near Ten Sleep, Wyoming, in July 2025.

Fixing forests or fueling fires? Scientists split over active management

John Cannon 13 Aug 2025
Wild elephants drinking from a stream near Bardiya National Park in Nepal. Image courtesy of Bardiya National Park.

In western Nepal, farmers switch to growing turmeric; elephants stay away

Deepak Adhikari 13 Aug 2025
Person standing in front of a fallen tree.

Global warming is altering storms lightning, impacting tropical forests

Sean Mowbray 28 Jul 2025
Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

Reversing damage to the world’s mangrove forests

Kristine Sabillo 25 Jul 2025
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

From deforestation to renewal: Why reforestation isn’t just about trees

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Jul 2025
Amanda L. Cordeiro (left), a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Minnesota and Daniela F. Cusack, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at Colorado State University at one of their research sites to investigate how root systems react to climatic changes.

Tropical forest roots show strain as changes aboveground filter below

Petro Kotzé 15 Jul 2025
Top tools to protect rainforests | Against All Odds

From apps to Indigenous guardians: Ways we can save rainforests

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2025
Smokestacks image by Pixabay via Pexels (Public domain).

Catholic bishops from Global South call for ambitious climate action ahead of COP30

Kristine Sabillo 2 Jul 2025
researcher glacier

Communities and ecosystems in Venezuela learn to adapt to life after glaciers

María Fernanda Rodríguez, Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 30 Jun 2025
Modern maple (Acer spp.) sap extraction system in eastern North America with a stewarded wild population of ramps (Allium tricoccum) on the forest floor. Based on Indigenous approaches, in these modern systems tree sap is boiled down to produce maple syrup, sugar and other edible products, and the above- and below-ground portion of ramps are sold commercially and consumed as food. In these systems, additional tree species can be tapped for sap, tree fruits and nuts can be harvested, and dozens of edible, medicinal and handicraft herbs and shrubs can be integrated into the system through intentional cultivation or by stewarding existing wild populations.

Bring the forest to the farm or the farm to the forest? Agroforestry faces a dichotomy

Marlowe Starling 23 Jun 2025
Udzungwa endemic Sanje mangabey. Image courtesy Trevor Jones.

Protecting Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains means putting communities at the center of conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jun 2025
Amazon rainforest. Credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal

Carla Ruas 17 Jun 2025

Is rising CO2 really bad for the world’s drylands? Mongabay podcast probes

Mongabay.com 4 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
Peatland deforestation in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

World Peatland Day: Protecting a crucial carbon sink

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Jun 2025
Student from Gales Point primary school planting mangrove seedlings inside bamboo tube.

From local planting to national plan, Belize bets on mangrove recovery

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 May 2025
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute scientist Danny Hernández Cuadra smiles at a small vial of stingless bees she collected for research.

In Panama, an Indigenous-led project rewrites the rules of reforestation

Marlowe Starling 22 May 2025

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