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Baobabs at sunset in Madagascar.

Fire imperils Madagascar’s baobabs: Q&A with park director Diamondra Andriambololona

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 3 Jul 2023
Magnolia griffithii

Bangladesh’s new red list of plants shows country has already lost seven species

Farhana Parvin 23 Jun 2023
A Miyawaki forest in Hyderabad.

Miyawaki forests are a global sensation, but not everyone’s sold on them

Annelise Giseburt 21 Jun 2023
One of the trees uprooted in Kenya arriving at its new home in Shekvetili, Georgia.

Kenyan baobab trees uprooted for export to Georgia; critics call it ‘biopiracy’

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 12 Jun 2023
L’Allee des Baobabs, or the Avenue of Baobabs, a famous spot outside Morondava, the nearest town to Belo-Sur-Mer.

Extreme reforestation: Baobab planters confront fires, loggers, cattle and more

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 6 Jun 2023

Nearly 30% of all tree cover in Africa may be outside of forests, study says

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Jun 2023

In Nepal, Chepang take up the challenge to revive their cultural keystone tree

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 May 2023
CI-Brazil and partners mixing the muvuca seeds.

World’s ‘largest’ tropical reforestation project slowed by Covid, Bolsonaro, fires

Jeremy Hance 4 May 2023
Graine de Vie’s reforestation site in Ambohitantely prior to the October 2022 fire.

Madagascar bush fires prompt exasperated NGO to curtail tree planting

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 1 May 2023
Shigeatsu Hatakeyama at a tree-planting festival

Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

Annelise Giseburt 27 Apr 2023

Community pine nut harvests help protect Brazil’s araucaria trees

Carolina Pinheiro 25 Apr 2023
Former lowland rainforest replaced with cocnut in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Deforestation in Borneo threatens three endangered, endemic plant species

Basten Gokkon 21 Apr 2023
red panda

Roads, human activity take a toll on red pandas: Q&A with researcher Damber Bista

Abhaya Raj Joshi 10 Apr 2023

In Brazil, scientists fight an uphill battle to restore the disappearing Cerrado savanna

Sarah Sax 3 Apr 2023
A tiger in water.

Do tiger-dense habitats also help save carbon stock? It’s complicated

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Mar 2023
Trees in the plains of Sahel.

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

John Cannon 10 Mar 2023
Children relaxing in the clear water of a shallow river in Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo. Image by Pieter Henket (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Deforestation threatens local populations in Republic of Congo’s Sangha

Lawon Olalekan 6 Mar 2023
The daily livestock market in Lodwar, Turkana County's biggest business hub. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

‘During droughts, pivot to agroecology’: Q&A with soil expert at the World Agroforestry Centre

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
Moringa stenopetala is a tree originally domesticated by Ethiopian and Kenyan farmers for its highly nutritious leaves. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Trees with edible leaves can boost human nutrition: New book, free download

Erik Hoffner 15 Feb 2023
Two researchers measuring a Victoria boliviana leaf.

Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

Sue Branford 15 Feb 2023
Karst mountain in Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Forest carbon offsets are a tool, not a silver bullet (commentary)

Robert Nasi and Pham Thu Thuy 7 Feb 2023
A blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Forest modeling misses the water for the carbon: Q&A with Antonio Nobre & Anastassia Makarieva

Judith D. Schwartz 7 Feb 2023
Karen Kimani waters her tree nursery.

Kenya’s youngest environmental ambassador: Q&A with 10-year-old Karen Kimani

Mactilda Mbenywe 3 Feb 2023
An elephant.

Elephants promote jumbo trees, boosting the carbon stores in Africa’s forests

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Jan 2023
A protected old-growth forest in Sequoia National Park. Image by Joan Maloof/Old-Growth Forest Network.

U.S. mature forests are critical carbon repositories, but at risk: Study

John Cannon 27 Jan 2023

The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all

Justin Catanoso 24 Jan 2023
A staffer prepares seedlings in a nursery.

From Japan to Brazil: Reforesting the Amazon with the Miyawaki method

Nieves Zúñiga 24 Jan 2023
A man planting a tree.

Dollars and chainsaws: Can timber production help fund global reforestation?

Gianluca Cerullo 5 Jan 2023
A tall red angelim.

Amazon’s tallest tree at risk as deforestation nears

Sarah Brown 28 Dec 2022
Wood chips piled in mounds more than 6 meters (20 feet) high cover the lot of the Enviva wood pellet plant in Ahoskie, North Carolina. Enviva says that it uses wood waste to produce pellets. The whistleblower and Mongabay’s on site investigation at a North Carolina clear-cut site and at the Ahoskie plant provided evidence to the contrary. Image by Justin Catanoso for Mongabay.

The Netherlands to stop paying subsidies to ‘untruthful’ biomass firms

Justin Catanoso 23 Dec 2022

Australia rejects forest biomass in first blow to wood pellet industry

Justin Catanoso 21 Dec 2022
Indigenous people in neighboring villages of Glar commune collect dead branches for firewood.

In Vietnam, a forest grown from the ashes of war falls to a resort project

Le Quynh 19 Dec 2022

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