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Minerals for agricultural use can already be found in Amazonia

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Jul 2024
Service in Östersund.

How Europe’s only Indigenous group is inspiring a greener Christianity

John Last 17 Jul 2024

After 2-year wait, Sonoran wilderness protection law gets closer to reality

Daniel Shailer 17 Jul 2024
Mercury being used to agglomerate gold.

Report reveals widespread use of smuggled mercury in Amazon gold mining

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Jul 2024
Male tiger camera trap image

Thai tiger numbers swell as prey populations stabilize in western forests

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jul 2024
Results of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Talensi District of Ghana. Image courtesy of World Vision.

Harnessing ‘invisible forests in plain view’ to reforest the world

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Jul 2024

‘Extinct’ trees found in Tanzania spark hope for ecosystem recovery

Ryan Truscott 16 Jul 2024
Young traditional dancers wearing ténabari around their ankles perform the danza del pascola y venado (the dance of the pascolas and the deer).

Loss of water means loss of culture for Mexico’s Indigenous Yaqui

Aimee Gabay 16 Jul 2024
Harare locals visit the Mbare Agricultural Market to buy fresh fruit and vegetables. Photo by: Charles Dhewa.

African markets tackle food insecurity and climate change — but lack investment

Aimee Gabay 16 Jul 2024
Tar sands developments along the Athabasca River in Alberta, British Columbia.

A year after toxic tar sands spill, questions remain for affected First Nation

Ruth Kamnitzer 16 Jul 2024

Loopholes allow multilateral development banks to fund captive coal in Indonesia: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2024
Morchella esculenta mushrooms, locally called gucchi.

Traditional foods have the potential to help Kashmir communities adapt to climate change: study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 16 Jul 2024

In a desertscape in Brazil, science brings farms to bountiful life

Rafael Martins 16 Jul 2024
Harvard researchers Evan Routhier and Faiz Haque during the sample collections at dawn in the Paraná do Jacaré, in the Negro River in mid-September 2023.

Study to benchmark water quality finds key Amazon tributary in good shape

Kevin Damasio 15 Jul 2024
Fishermen in the Sundarbans do not have internationally-recognized rights.

Sundarbans fisherfolk are battered by cyclones amid fishing bans

Sadiqur Rahman 15 Jul 2024
A coal mine in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Jokowi’s religious mining rule divides Indonesia’s largest Islamic organization

Asad Asnawi, Christ Belseran, Irfan Maulana 15 Jul 2024
The Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh.

Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal project: A catalog of worries (analysis)

Pham Phan Long 15 Jul 2024

Let’s reduce poverty & deforestation via greater EUDR traceability requirements (commentary)

Julia Christian 12 Jul 2024

Industrial minerals in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Jul 2024

Sumatra pulp & paper giants violate zero-deforestation pledge, activists allege

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2024
The Padarincang community rejecting the geothermal project. They are worried that it will have a negative impact on their lives in the future.

Java farmers vow to live under own steam as geothermal project falters

Irfan Maulana 12 Jul 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

After historic 2023 drought, Amazon communities brace for more in Brazil

Amanda Magnani 10 Jul 2024
Soil fertilization process in an oil palm plantation.

Indonesia’s oil palm smallholders get a boost in bid for sustainability

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jul 2024
A salmon farm in Bugoynes, Finnmark, Norway.

As aquaculture hits historic highs, let’s ensure sustainability is prioritized (commentary)

Erika Feller 10 Jul 2024

Indigenous communities in Sarawak left in the dark about hydropower proposal

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 9 Jul 2024
Guasimas Bay has been contaminated by agrochemicals and waste that is released from shrimp farms not far from the coast.

As drought parches Mexico, a Yaqui water defender fights for a sacred river

Aimee Gabay 9 Jul 2024

Allegations widen against Indonesian palm oil giant Astra Agro Lestari

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2024

Global migratory freshwater fish populations plummet by 81%: Report

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jul 2024
A bee with a sunflower in Tokyo.

Study finds best plants for bee health and conservation in North America

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jul 2024

Brasil, Venezuela and Peru: the geography of industrial metals

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Jul 2024
Pastoralists in Somalia

To protect the planet’s rangelands, give pastoralists a boost, UN report says

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Jul 2024

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