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A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters

Ronaldo Ribeiro, Letícia Klein, Kevin Damasio, Laura Kurtzberg, Ambiental Media 5 May 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022

Plan to carve up Indonesian Papua rings alarm over fate of people and forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Apr 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

‘Giving up’: Amazon is losing its resilience under human pressure, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2022

Indigenous-led report warns against ‘simplistic take on conservation’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Mar 2022

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

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 28 Feb 2022

John Deere and Brazilian bank team up to equip farmers deforesting the Amazon

Andressa Santa Cruz, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 14 Feb 2022
White handed gibbon

Malaysia’s white-handed gibbons may be two subspecies, not one, study shows

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Feb 2022
Deforestation for oil palm in Malaysian Borneo.

Even degraded forests are more ecologically valuable than none, study shows

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 7 Feb 2022

The 411 on forests and reforestation for 2022

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jan 2022

Young environmentalists ‘plant the future’ in Colombia’s Amazon

Dimitri Selibas 24 Jan 2022

Despite sanctions, U.S. companies still importing Myanmar teak, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 11 Jan 2022

E.O. Wilson’s last dream

Jeremy Hance 3 Jan 2022

How can illegal timber trade in the Greater Mekong be stopped?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 30 Dec 2021
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

Australia’s rainforest species gain ground through landscape linkages

Amanda Freeman 24 Dec 2021

How does political instability in the Mekong affect deforestation?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Dec 2021

Congo Peatlands

Mongabay.com 21 Dec 2021

The past, present and future of the Congo peatlands: 10 takeaways from our series

John Cannon 16 Dec 2021

Carbon and communities: The future of the Congo Basin peatlands

John Cannon 14 Dec 2021
These women, who are part of the Mam indigenous community, are harvesting pine nuts in a forest in Cajolá, Quetzaltenango, to be sold later at a local market. Our work supports reforestation efforts and helps local families sustain themselves economically. Photo credit: Sergio Izquierdo

Conservation and food production must work in tandem, new study says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Dec 2021
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

Holding agriculture and logging at bay in the Congo peatlands

John Cannon 9 Dec 2021

Layers of carbon: The Congo Basin peatlands and oil

John Cannon 7 Dec 2021

Indigenous groups unveil plan to protect 80% of the Amazon in Peru and Ecuador

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 3 Dec 2021

$1.5 billion Congo Basin pledge a good start but not enough, experts say

Jim Tan 3 Dec 2021

The ‘idea’: Uncovering the peatlands of the Congo Basin

John Cannon 2 Dec 2021

Questions over who gets the billions pledged to Indigenous causes at COP26

Latoya Abulu 23 Nov 2021

Report: Orangutans and their habitat in Indonesia need full protection now

Basten Gokkon 19 Nov 2021

Top Brazil gold exporter leaves a trail of criminal probes and illegal mines

Guilherme Henrique, Ana Magalhães for Repórter Brasil 10 Nov 2021
Deforestation in Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Nov 2021

Indonesia’s flip-flop on zero-deforestation pledge portends greater forest loss

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Nov 2021

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