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Are nature-based solutions the silver bullet for social & environmental crises?

Victoria Schneider 6 Oct 2021

For sustainable global fisheries, watchdogs focus on onshore beneficial owners

Basten Gokkon 17 Sep 2021

In Kenya, push-pull method tries to debug organic farming’s pest problem

David Njagi 8 Sep 2021

Brazil’s biofuel program sputters on weak emissions accounting

Sibélia Zanon 8 Sep 2021
Boats afloat in a lake of hyacinth at Kisumu. Image by Richard Portsmouth via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

From a nuisance to a benefit, ‘world’s worst weed’ finds new use as biofuel

Federica Marsi 6 Sep 2021

Conservation after coronavirus: We need to diversify and innovate (commentary)

Jonathan Ayers, Frederic Launay 2 Sep 2021

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for September 2021

Mongabay.com 1 Sep 2021

Indonesia’s newly minted investigators to go after illegal fishing kingpins

Basten Gokkon 1 Sep 2021

Climate change threatens traditional extractive communities in the Amazon

Sibélia Zanon 30 Aug 2021

Fully recyclable paper cups? They exist, but you won’t find them at Starbucks

Mongabay.com 26 Aug 2021

Study shows how sustainable livelihood programs for Indonesian fishers can succeed

Cassie Freund 26 Aug 2021

Calls mount for Indonesian ban on new palm oil plantations to be extended

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Aug 2021

Keeling Curve Prize awarded to solar cooking and other climate change-reducing projects

Erik Hoffner 24 Aug 2021

Brazil punching below its weight in getting forest products to the world

Juliana Ennes 23 Aug 2021
Vietnam is now the top producer of robusta beans used in cheap and instant coffee blends, but it carries a huge cost for Vietnamese communities and forests. Image courtesy of Quinn Mattingly/Panos Pictures/Unfold Stories.

Deforestation-free supply chains in Vietnam rely on working with small scale farmers (commentary)

Phuc Xuan To 20 Aug 2021

Everything is traceable – unless you don’t want it to be (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 18 Aug 2021
Growing agave in Mexico

Mexico devises revolutionary method to reverse semiarid land degradation

Sue Branford 11 Aug 2021

Indonesia assessing fish stock health to improve sustainable planning

Basten Gokkon 4 Aug 2021

Ending Amazon deforestation a top priority on Colombian minister’s D.C. visit

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 2 Aug 2021

Indonesia reimposes ban on destructive seine and trawl nets in its waters

Basten Gokkon 28 Jul 2021

Palm oil grower looks to make amends for past deforestation in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jul 2021

Indonesia to send more tuna vessels out into international waters

Basten Gokkon 22 Jul 2021

Turning Kenya’s problematic invasive plants into useful bioenergy

Anthony Langat 21 Jul 2021

Road construction imperils tree kangaroo recovery in PNG

John Cannon 19 Jul 2021

Biogas from animal manure improves life in Brazil’s semi-arid northeast

Sibélia Zanon 19 Jul 2021

Indonesian former fisheries minister jailed for bribery in lobster exports

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2021

FSC dumps palm oil giant Korindo amid rights, environmental issues in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2021

‘Animal rights will be part of our DNA’: Q&A with Bogotá councilor Andrea Padilla

John Edward Myers 16 Jul 2021

Playing the long game: ExxonMobil gambles on algae biofuel

Carly Nairn 6 Jul 2021

The true environmental cost of the Internet (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 5 Jul 2021

Biofuel in Mexico: Uphill battle against bureaucracy, organized crime

Sandra Weiss 2 Jul 2021
Oil palm fruit. Image by Dave Barce via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Blind spot in palm policy raises deforestation risk in Malaysia, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 2 Jul 2021

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