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Palm oil deforestation persists in Indonesia’s Leuser amid new mills, plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2024

How a wind farm on Brazil’s coast erased a fishing village from the map

Lobato Felizola 14 Mar 2024

Reconciling conservation agriculture and agroforestry for sustainability

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Mar 2024
A small, bright green chameleon with pale orange patches on its head, clinging to a matching stalk with its tail curled tightly. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

New ecoregion proposed for Southern Africa’s threatened ‘sky islands’

Ryan Truscott 13 Mar 2024
The access road to the Stung Tatai Leu hydropower dam cuts through forest in the Central Cardamoms National Park, Koh Kong province, Cambodia in April 2022

New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 13 Mar 2024

Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state

Sam Cowie, Rodrigo Pedroso, Avener Prado 12 Mar 2024

Brazil risks losing the Pampa grassland to soy farms and sand patches

Evanildo da Silveira 12 Mar 2024

Norway pension fund breaks with U.K. conglomerate Jardines over endangered orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024

Cacao is keeping this community in Ecuador away from deforestation

Liz Kimbrough, Timo Verguawen 11 Mar 2024

Proposed copper mine modifications spark community outcry in Peru

Sarah Sax 11 Mar 2024

Indonesian gold mine expanding in ‘wrong direction’ into orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2024
Agroforestry practices in action in Zambia.

Global conference to accelerate nature-based solutions: Q&A with Self Help Africa’s Patricia Wall

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Mar 2024

Java rice farmers suffer crop failure as copper mine pollutes local irrigation

Asad Asnawi 11 Mar 2024
Wildfire on Kangaroo Island, Australia.

Studies still uncovering true extent of 2019-20 Australia wildfire catastrophe

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 Mar 2024

Madagascar takes key step toward improving transparency of its fisheries

Rivonala Razafison 7 Mar 2024
Kouanda Issiaka watering his mango plantation for extra income in Boromo, Burkina Faso.

Report calls for agroecological rethink of Africa’s food amid $61b industrial plan

Aimee Gabay 7 Mar 2024
Many residents of Gelam Island moved to the neighboring Cempedak Island for education and health facilities.

Phantom deeds see Borneo islanders lose their land to quartz miners

Aseanty Pahlevi 7 Mar 2024
Fakir Altaf Hussain, a fisher in Bangladesh, fishing in his pond.

Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows

Sean Mowbray 6 Mar 2024
The effect is most dangerous in peatland areas like Riau province and southern Borneo, where out-of-control wildfires cause environmental destruction, excess deaths and economic losses in the billions of dollars.

Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

Suryadi 6 Mar 2024

Ten years since anti-deforestation pledge, corporate world still not doing enough

Maxwell Radwin 6 Mar 2024

Ecuador project empowers cacao farmers to save spider monkey habitat

Astrid Arellano 6 Mar 2024
Hippos in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

In climate-related flooding, a Ugandan river turns poisonous

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Mar 2024

Fears of marine disaster loom after fertilizer-laden ship sinks in Red Sea

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Mar 2024
A bridge in Masungi Georeserve.

Surprise discovery of wind farm project in Philippine reserve prompts alarm

Keith Anthony Fabro 5 Mar 2024
Breadfruit trees produce large, potato-like fruits.

Breadfruit’s low carbon storage could be offset by fast growth, study finds

Claudia Geib 5 Mar 2024
The people of Tebing Tinggi Okura, Riau, protest against the clarity of 20% plasma plantations for them.

Sumatra community faces up to ‘plasma’ disappointment after palm oil policy shift

Suryadi 4 Mar 2024
A farmer spraying pesticides in a rice field.

Scientists and doctors raise global alarm over hormone-disrupting chemicals

Alden Wicker 4 Mar 2024
A harvester navigating the wild rice beds on the canoe.

Culture and conservation thrive as Great Lakes tribes bring back native wild rice

Spoorthy Raman 4 Mar 2024
A laborer at a brickfield in Amin Bazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

To save topsoil & reduce pollution, Bangladesh moves toward alternative bricks

Abu Siddique 4 Mar 2024

Indonesians uprooted by mining industry call for a fairer future amid presidential vote

Petrus Riski, Taufik Wijaya 4 Mar 2024

Major meatpacker JBS misled the public about sustainability efforts, NY lawsuit claims

Maxwell Radwin 1 Mar 2024
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PNG communities resist seabed mining: Interview with activist Jonathan Mesulam

John Cannon 1 Mar 2024

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