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New study reveals fine detail on location and scale of mining sites worldwide

Ashoka Mukpo 8 May 2023

Return of the GEDI: Space-based, forest carbon-mapping laser array saved

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Apr 2023
Trees in the plains of Sahel.

Scientists map nearly 10 billion trees, stored carbon, in Africa’s drylands

John Cannon 10 Mar 2023
Satellite image of Mount Everest.

Airbus Foundation looks to put satellites to new biodiversity conservation uses

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2022
Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms drone.

Despite 11% drop in 2022, Amazon deforestation rate has soared under Bolsonaro

Karla Mendes 2 Dec 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

In final days before Bolsonaro’s defeat, deforestation boomed in Brazil

Mongabay.com 11 Nov 2022

Amazonian river communities seek to boost hard-won land rights to fight loggers

Lais Modelli 11 Oct 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Ahead of election, deforestation increased in Brazil

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2022
Global forest carbon map

New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity

Carolyn Cowan 19 Sep 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation in Brazil booms in August

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2022
Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia state.Greenpeace Brazil flew over the southern Amazonas and northern Rondônia states in Brazil to monitor deforestation and forest fires in the Amazon in July 2022. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Indepedent watchdog confirms rampant deforestation in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 31 Aug 2022
Apuí, Amazonas state. Greenpeace Brazil flew over the southern Amazonas and northern Rondônia states in Brazil to monitor deforestation and forest fires in the Amazon in July 2022. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation on pace to roughly match last year’s rate of loss

Rhett A. Butler 12 Aug 2022
Global Forest Watch forest cover change alerts near Porto Velho in the State of Rondônia, Brazil in 2022.

Amazon deforestation is off to the fastest start to a year since 2008

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2022

Satellites show deforestation surging in Indonesia’s Tesso Nilo National Park

Zamzami｜Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Jun 2022

New near-real-time tool reveals Earth’s land cover in more detail than ever before

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2022
Forest fire in a deforested area in an undesignated public forest in Altamira, Pará on Jul 31, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga/Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation surges in April

Mongabay.com 6 May 2022
A marine researcher launching a drone for ocean color surveys

Where satellites come up short, drones can fill in a picture of our oceans

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Apr 2022

Deforestation on the rise as poverty soars in Nigeria

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Mar 2022

Tropical deforestation emitting far more carbon than previously thought: Study

John Cannon 15 Mar 2022
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching -- the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon -- in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

Amazon deforestation starts 2022 on the fastest pace in 14 years

Mongabay.com 15 Mar 2022

For fire-ravaged northern Thailand, there’s now an app to battle the blaze

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 28 Feb 2022
Amazon rainforest in Brazil

January deforestation in the Amazon highest in 14 years

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2022
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Mongabay reporter sued in what appears to be a pattern of legal intimidation by Peruvian cacao company

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2021
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation unexpectedly surges 22% to highest level since 2006

Rhett A. Butler 18 Nov 2021
Deforestation in Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

What countries are leaders in reducing deforestation? Which are not?

Rhett A. Butler 5 Nov 2021

Study shows ‘encouraging’ results of China’s bid to protect coastal wetlands

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Nov 2021
Mills linked to a refinery. Courtesy of palmoil.io

Data-driven platform looks to clear up fog of palm oil traceability

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2021

Indigenous Bolivians take the defense of their land into their own hands

Yvette Sierra Praeli 26 Oct 2021
A long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), a subspecies of which is found on New Britain Island. Image via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island

John Cannon 21 Oct 2021
Malayan tiger

Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

To predict forest loss in protected areas, look at nearby unprotected forest

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle pasture in Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia state. Overflights organized by the Amazon in Flames Alliance -- Amazon Watch, Greenpeace Brazil and the Brazilian Climate Observatory -- between September 13th and 17th documented land use change and fire around the cities of Porto Velho, Rondônia, and Lábrea, Amazonas. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

Brazil reports increase in Amazon logging

Mongabay.com 11 Oct 2021

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