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After a searing Amazon fire season, experts warn of more in 2025

India’s latest forest cover report hints at countrywide degradation

Indonesian president says palm oil expansion won’t deforest because ‘oil palms have leaves’

Amazon communities reap the smallest share of bioeconomy profits

The Amazon in 2025: Challenges and hopes as the rainforest takes center stage

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

‘Uncertainty’ amid EUDR delay poses challenges for cocoa companies, farmers

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Brazil’s big push for tropical forest funding gets support for 2025 debut

Brazil’s illegal gold miners carve out new Amazon hotspots in conservation units

Amazon’s Boiling River gives scientists a window into the rainforest’s future

South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform

Indonesia reforestation plan a smoke screen for agriculture project, critics say

On Indonesia’s unique Enggano Island, palm oil takes root in an Indigenous society

Grassroots efforts sprout up to protect Central America’s Trifinio watershed

Illegal timber from Amazon carbon credit projects reached Europe, U.S.

Recycling gold can tackle illegal mining in the Amazon, but is no silver bullet

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Loggers and carbon projects forge odd partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon

Maker of Jeff Bezos’s yacht fined for using Myanmar ‘blood timber’

Mongabay series on palm oil wins national journalism prize in Brazil

Yacht maker Sunseeker fined in landmark Myanmar ‘blood timber’ case

Brazil plans new reserves to curb deforestation near contested Amazon roads

Researchers find high levels of mercury in Amazon’s Madeira River water & fish

New transmission lines cut a Cambodian rainforest sanctuary in half

Brazil beef industry still struggling with deforestation from indirect suppliers, survey finds

Prosecutors urge suspension of Amazon carbon projects, citing Mongabay investigation

Deforestation around Mennonite colonies continues in Peruvian Amazon: Report

The effects of mass migration in Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century

Hopes and fears for the Amazon: Interview with botanist Hans ter Steege

WWF gives banks a tool to see if they’re financing environmental crime

A deadly fly is spreading through Central America. Experts blame illegal cattle ranching

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