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Farmers in Bihar, India, growing crops amidst solar panels.

We need a better understanding of how crops fare under solar panels, study shows

Ruth Kamnitzer 23 Jan 2024
Two Dutch flycatchers nestle in the palm of a researcher’s hands. Photo credit: Koosje Lamers.

Ecologists help migratory birds adapt to climate change

Gillian Dohrn 30 Nov 2023
Protesting farmers on their way to the Hague in 2019.

The Dutch farmers’ protests of 2022: A Mongabay Series

Ashoka Mukpo 14 Sep 2023
Starfish on a tree reef raised out of the water.

Study finds old pear trees make for surprisingly rich reef habitats

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Sep 2023
A dairy cow in a farm in the Netherlands.

In the clash over Dutch farming, Europe’s future arrives

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Sep 2023

In the Netherlands, pitchforks fly for an empire of cows

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Sep 2023
cow in the netherlands wagenigen university dairy campus research facility

How manure blew up the Netherlands

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Sep 2023
Farah Obaidullah holds a fish on a fishing boat.

Bringing the ocean’s vast ‘awesomeness’ to light: Q&A with Farah Obaidullah

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Apr 2023
Dutch windmills in Zaanse Schans, Zaanstad.

Sea level rise looms, even for the best-prepared country on Earth

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Mar 2023
On 22 June 2022 the farmers protest started in the Netherlands. Tractors from all over the country drove to Stroe. This picture was taken along the A27 near Houten, just in front of the Lunetten interchange. Image by Frank Magdelyns from Pixabay.

For Dutch farming crisis, agroforestry offers solutions: Q&A with Lennart Fuchs & Marc Buiter

Peter Speetjens 21 Mar 2023
Wood chips piled in mounds more than 6 meters (20 feet) high cover the lot of the Enviva wood pellet plant in Ahoskie, North Carolina. Enviva says that it uses wood waste to produce pellets. The whistleblower and Mongabay’s on site investigation at a North Carolina clear-cut site and at the Ahoskie plant provided evidence to the contrary. Image by Justin Catanoso for Mongabay.

The Netherlands to stop paying subsidies to ‘untruthful’ biomass firms

Justin Catanoso 23 Dec 2022

Meet the 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 25 May 2022

Sloth, giant armadillo, and fishing cat conservationists win Future for Nature Award 2022

Erik Hoffner 18 Mar 2022

COP26: Are climate declarations and emission reduction pledges legally binding?

Justin Catanoso 11 Nov 2021

Dutch to limit forest biomass subsidies, possibly signaling EU sea change

Justin Catanoso 9 Mar 2021

Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges

Justin Catanoso 31 Aug 2020

‘Tainted timber’ from Myanmar widely used in yachts seized in the Netherlands

Malavika Vyawahare 25 Dec 2019

Seeking justice against palm oil firms, victims call out banks behind them

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2019

The Great Insect Dying: How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019

Dutch banks’ customers ‘unknowingly’ profit from palm oil companies

Thessa Lageman 15 Dec 2018

As climate change takes its toll, world leaders call for adaptation

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Oct 2018

Better than bottled: How a Dutch company uses bison to maintain pure drinking water

Joshua Parfitt 26 Apr 2018

Major Dutch timber company found guilty of dealing in illegal teak

Mongabay 2 Nov 2017

Public hearing concludes Vietnam fails to crack down on wildlife trafficking

Azarja Harmanny 16 Nov 2016

Progress being made in curbing illegal timber imports

Mongabay.com 25 Nov 2014

‘Stop using the bloody things’: pesticides linked to bee collapse now blamed for bird declines

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2014

Lab-grown meat: a taste of the future?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jun 2014

31 activists arrested attempting to stop Arctic oil from docking in Europe

Jeremy Hance 1 May 2014

Aiming to avoid deforestation, Unilever to trace all palm oil it sources

Mongabay.com 12 Nov 2013

Europe importing more palm oil for biofuels, raising risks for rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2013

New illegal logging ban in EU could sever all ties with companies working in DRC

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2013

Malaysian sustainable timber certification fails Dutch standards

Jeremy Hance 23 Oct 2011

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