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‘That’s a scam’: Indian firm’s REDD+ carbon deal in the DRC raises concern

John Cannon 14 Jun 2022
A northern cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus).

Proposed copper and gold mine threatens the world’s ‘second Amazon’ in PNG

John Cannon 13 Jun 2022

Even Antarctic snow can’t escape the plastic peril, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2022
View of the Nangaritza valley from near Las Orquideas. Photo by Andrew Neil via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Illegal mining threatens one of the last forest links between the Andes and Ecuador’s Amazon

Jackeline Beltrán 10 Jun 2022
Christina Haverkamp (center), founder of the German NGO Hilfe Yanomami, with Indigenous children. The activist has been going to Brazil since the 1990s and says wildcat miners are disrupting the life of the Yanomami people. Image courtesy of Hilfe Yanomami.

At 30, Brazil’s Yanomami reserve is beset by mining, malaria and mercury

Peter Speetjens 9 Jun 2022
A single-use plastic water bottle found by a snorkeller in The Gili Islands, Indonesia.

Indonesia should take a leadership role in the Global Plastics Treaty (commentary)

Aristyo Rizka Darmawan, Bella Nathania 8 Jun 2022

End old-growth logging in carbon-rich ‘crown jewel’ of U.S. forests: Study

John Cannon 8 Jun 2022
Botanist Keith Steunenberg stands next to a thicket.

Can wonder plant spekboom really bring smiles back to sad South African towns?

Anna Weekes 7 Jun 2022
A mother sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) and her calf

Noise pollution spooks whales the way predators would, study finds

Grace Hansen 7 Jun 2022

A year since X-Press Pearl sinking, Sri Lanka is still waiting for compensation

Malaka Rodrigo 2 Jun 2022
The Hudson Bay Lowland landscape is as much water as land. The deep peat soils of the region store billions of tonnes of carbon. Image courtesy of WCS Canada.

Canada mining push puts major carbon sink and Indigenous lands in the crosshairs

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jun 2022

Sumatra palm plantations the usual suspects as unusual burning razes peatlands

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2022
Drying farmed cannabis.

Legal and illegal cannabis: A cause for growing environmental concern

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2022

How Colombia disenfranchised Indigenous Inga communities in favor of oil

Cuestión Pública, Mongabay Latam 2 Jun 2022
Green-lipped mussels. Image courtesy of Adrian Midgley via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indigenous, ingenious and sustainable aquaculture from the distant past to today

Mike Gaworecki 2 Jun 2022

Suspension of Chinese miner for pollution in DRC points to wider problem

Immaculée Inamuco 1 Jun 2022
Residents of the Mura Indigenous village of Murutinga, in Brazil’s Amazonas state, take over a boat belonging to employees of the electricity company, who have come to cut off the community's energy supplies. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Push for potash mine in Brazil’s Amazon looms over Indigenous people

Ana Ionova 27 May 2022

Tale of two pandemics as mining thrived while communities faced restrictions

Sandra Cuffe 24 May 2022
Marereni Biodiversity Conservancy members during a beach clean-up on the shores of the Indian Ocean in Marereni, Kenya.

200 mysterious sea turtle deaths: Q&A with Kenyan fisherman and turtle rescuer Daniel Katana

Anthony Langat 23 May 2022
The spotted tody-flycatcher, native to South America and the Caribbean, hunts insects alone or in pairs, and is well-adapted to humans, happy in forest or overgrown pasture. Image courtesy of Alexander Lees.

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies

Sharon Guynup 23 May 2022

Stained by oil: A history of spills and impunity in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo, Vanessa Romo 23 May 2022

The price of oil spills in Peru and Colombia? Millions of dollars in fines

Cristina Fernández Aguilar 20 May 2022
Wood chips for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway. Image by Statkraft via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?

Annelise Giseburt 19 May 2022
A busy morning on the streets in Vietnam.

9m deaths a year from pollution, the ‘largest existential threat’ to humans

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 May 2022

EU Parliament’s Environment Committee urges scale back of biomass burning

Justin Catanoso 18 May 2022

Oil exploration in DR Congo peatland risks forests, climate and local communities

Lawon Olalekan 16 May 2022
Highlining, an outdoor activity that helps with conservation efforts, in the Karst Citatah area, Padalarang, West Java. Image by Donny Iqbal/Mongabay.

Environment award stokes urge to save Indonesia’s karst landscape

Donny Iqbal, Warief Djajanto Basorie 16 May 2022

Geoengineering Earth’s climate future: Straight talk with Wake Smith

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2022
Ranchers who received customized training made more sustainable changes to their properties, including pasture restoration, that led to both economic and environmental benefits, researchers say.

Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil’s cattle ranchers and forests

Sarah Brown 12 May 2022
Timber for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway

Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia

Justin Catanoso 11 May 2022
Estrela Matilde

Biologist fighting plastic pollution to save sea turtles wins ‘Green Oscar’

Kaleab Girma 11 May 2022
Premsinee in the ruin of her old school.

Thai gold mine blamed for sickening local villagers is set to reopen

Kannikar Petchkaew 10 May 2022

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