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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
Men from the San Francisco communal land make use of a tree that fell during the rainy season. Photo by Marlén Castro.

Protecting water by conserving forests puts communities in Mexico to the test

Marlén Castro 5 Apr 2022

To save the oceans, we need MPAs that emphasize actual protection of marine ecosystems (commentary)

Enric Sala 1 Mar 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

Changes to Madagascar’s trawling sector raise questions and hopes

Edward Carver 29 Dec 2021

Madagascar’s small fishers cheer new trawl-free zone, but do trawlers obey it?

Edward Carver 28 Dec 2021
Seized sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleonora) in East Java, Indonesia.

Indonesia ranks high on legal wildlife trade, but experts warn it masks illegal trade

Basten Gokkon 3 Dec 2021

In Indonesia, a coastal town rejects ‘metropolitan’ model for mangroves

Mahmud Ichi 11 Nov 2021

Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Basten Gokkon 20 Oct 2021
Malayan tiger

Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

When a tree falls in the forest, you can still hear the birdsong

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Sep 2021

Mycoremediation brings the fungi to waste disposal and ecosystem restoration

Carly Nairn 15 Sep 2021

In Kenya, push-pull method tries to debug organic farming’s pest problem

David Njagi 8 Sep 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Aug 2021

Global demand for manganese puts Kayapó Indigenous land under pressure

Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 14 Jul 2021

Playing the long game: ExxonMobil gambles on algae biofuel

Carly Nairn 6 Jul 2021

Biofuel in Mexico: Uphill battle against bureaucracy, organized crime

Sandra Weiss 2 Jul 2021

Converting biowaste to biogas could power cleaner, sustainable Earth future

Marina Martinez 1 Jul 2021

Cleaning up Cambodia’s kitchens could curb deforestation, climate change

Marissa Carruthers 22 Jun 2021

Rush to turn ‘black diamonds’ into cash eats up Uganda’s forests, fruits

Alex Tumuhimbise 17 Jun 2021

On the Mongolian steppe, conservation science meets traditional knowledge

Jacopo Pasotti 2 Jun 2021

Wildlife trafficking, like everything else, has gone online during COVID-19

Imelda Abano, Leilani Chavez 1 Jun 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa 70% of the population lives from agriculture — and specifically rainfall agriculture.

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

Saul Elbein 10 May 2021

Scientists warn of looming water crisis with millions of wells at risk

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2021

Hits and misses for a legal tool to protect the environment in Philippines

Purple Romero 28 Apr 2021

The Kalunga digitally map traditional lands to save Cerrado way of life

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 24 Feb 2021

Historical analysis: The Amazon’s mineral wealth — curse or blessing?

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 21 Dec 2020

Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on Indigenous lands

Eduardo Goulart de Andrade, Hyury Potter, Naira Hofmeister and Pedro Papini 13 Nov 2020

Guyana’s future and challenges in oil: Q&A with filmmaker Shane Thomas McMillan

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2020

Perfume coalition’s conservation-first approach: Q&A with Heather D’Angelo

Mongabay.org 13 Jul 2020

Gender-based violence shakes communities in the wake of forest loss

John Cannon 14 May 2020

Philippines bids farewell to satellite that launched enviro policy into the space age

Rosy Mina 12 May 2020

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