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Jatropha curcas trees in Hawai‘i.

Jatropha: The biofuel that bombed seeks a path to redemption

Sean Mowbray 6 Apr 2023

Expansion of Mennonite farmland in Bolivia encroaches on Indigenous land

Iván Paredes Tamayo 3 Apr 2023
A Quilombolas man lights candles in the cemetery.

RSPO suspension of Brazil palm oil exporter tied to Mongabay land-grabbing report

Karla Mendes 29 Mar 2023
A worker sorts through harvested oil palm.

How do oil palm companies get away with disregarding Indonesian law? (commentary)

Tania Li 29 Mar 2023

Mennonite colonies linked to deforestation of Indigenous territories and protected areas in Paraguay

Aldo Benítez 24 Mar 2023

Palm oil deforestation hits record high in Sumatra’s ‘orangutan capital’

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Mar 2023
Harvested sugarcane in Karnataka, India.

A liquid biofuels primer: Carbon-cutting hopes vs. real-world impacts

Sean Mowbray 20 Mar 2023

How we built a database of conflicts driven by Indonesia’s palm oil smallholder scheme

Tom Walker 16 Mar 2023
A coffee farmer carries saplings.

Companies eye ‘carbon insetting’ as winning climate solution, but critics are wary

Ian Morse 13 Mar 2023

Logged and loaded: Cambodian prison official suspected in massive legalized logging operation

Gerald Flynn 8 Mar 2023
An oil palm plantation and natural forest in Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Conservationists decry palm oil giants’ exit from HCSA forest protection group

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Mar 2023

Indonesian palm oil billionaire gets 15 years for corruption

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Feb 2023

Forests & finance: A lawsuit, an import ban, and restoring Zambian forests

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2023
Laurensius Asia, a member of the cooperative in Teluk Bakung.

Six steps to tackle exploitation in Indonesia’s palm oil smallholder scheme (commentary)

Tom Walker 23 Feb 2023

Companies, big banks are still lagging on deforestation regulations: report

Maxwell Radwin 20 Feb 2023
A woman harvests palm fruit in a village near Equatorial Palm Oil's former concession in Grand Bassa, Liberia. Image courtesy of the Open Government Partnership via Flickr, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).

Palm oil plantation linked to Wilmar faces accusations in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Feb 2023
Herders in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Image courtesy of the Oakland Institute.

‘Development’ projects in Ethiopia leave starvation, disease in wake: Report

John Cannon 12 Feb 2023
People in San Juan Raya decided to join a research project to grow agave for mezcal sustainably. Image by Noel Rojo for Mongabay.

Amid global mezcal craze, scientists and communities try out sustainable plantations

Magdaléna Rojo 10 Feb 2023
Palm oil estate worker

Indonesia and Malaysia assail new EU ban on ‘dirty commodities’ trade

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jan 2023
A fisherman looks for crabs.

On Sumatra coast, mangrove clearing sparks scrutiny of loophole

Teguh Suprayitno 30 Jan 2023

At a rubber plantation in Liberia, history repeats in a fight over land

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Jan 2023
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Poisoned by pesticides: Health crisis deepens in Brazil’s Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 16 Jan 2023

Indonesia’s biofuel push must go beyond palm oil to reduce risk, experts say

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2023

Indonesia prosecutors decry ‘lenient’ sentences in palm oil corruption case

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2023
A man planting a tree.

Dollars and chainsaws: Can timber production help fund global reforestation?

Gianluca Cerullo 5 Jan 2023

For Indonesian smallholders, EU deforestation rule is a threat — and an opportunity

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jan 2023

Brazilian archbishop is threatened for defending Indigenous peoples — even during Mass

Elizabeth Oliveira 28 Dec 2022
Researcher Elielson Pereira da Silva and Quilombola people sit waiting for a canoe.

In Brazil’s Amazon, Quilombolas fight major palm oil firm for access to cemeteries

Karla Mendes 28 Dec 2022
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

As dry season looms, Sumatra villagers hope their peat restoration pays off

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Dec 2022
A boy with a jar of cigarette butts.

Tobacco: Vaping and smoking drive environmental harm from farm to fingertip

Sean Mowbray 22 Dec 2022
seedling

Mexican restoration dominated by non-environmental interests

Dimitri Selibas 22 Dec 2022
Members of the Quilombolas community make their way across.

Video: Stolen Quilombola cemeteries in the Amazon, and the probe that revealed it all

Karla Mendes 20 Dec 2022

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