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Peat forest clearing in Indonesian Borneo in June 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian ban on clearing new swaths of forest to be made permanent

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jun 2019
A turtle at Shell Beach in Region 1 of Guyana. Photo courtesy of Guyana Marine Conservation Society.

My journey toward ‘green reporting’ (insider)

Akola Thompson 6 Jun 2019
A venomous snake in the DRC. Photo by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.

Congo’s hidden crisis: Snakebites and envenomation

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham 5 Jun 2019
El Paujil reserve. Photo courtesy IUCN.

Colombia’s El Paujil Reserve expands in dying Magdalena Valley

Kimberley Brown 4 Jun 2019

‘We come from the earth’: Q&A with Goldman Prize winner Alfred Brownell

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Jun 2019

Chinese banks risk supporting soy-related deforestation, report finds

John Cannon 30 May 2019

Land grabbing, cattle ranching ravage Colombian Amazon after FARC demobilization

Taran Volckhausen 30 May 2019

The world’s biggest reptile fair is also a hub for traffickers

Denise Hruby 30 May 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

Earth’s hidden tree-microbe network mapped for the first time ever

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2019

Where the forest has no name

Paul Koberstein, Jessica Applegate 24 May 2019

Tall and old or dense and young: Which kind of forest is better for the climate?

Paul Koberstein, Jessica Applegate 23 May 2019

New report examines drivers of rising Amazon deforestation on country-by-country basis

Mongabay.com 23 May 2019

Plants are working hard to keep pace with increasing carbon dioxide

Shreya Dasgupta 23 May 2019

Documentary on world’s rarest ape generates film festival buzz

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 May 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

Indonesia calls on palm oil industry, obscured by secrecy, to remain opaque

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2019

Bauxite mining and Chinese dam push Guinea’s chimpanzees to the brink

Jennifer O’Mahony 21 May 2019

Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical

John Cannon 21 May 2019

Solomon Islanders imprisoned for trying to stop the logging of their forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

A new election brings little hope for Solomon Islands’ vanishing forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019
Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii) eating a leaf in Jozani Forest, Zanzibar. Photo: Hasin Shakur, Wikicommons GFDL 1.2

Red colobus conservation in Zanzibar: A cautiously optimistic tale

Bart Crezee 17 May 2019

In Indonesia, a flawed certification scheme lets illegal loggers raze away

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 May 2019

’Green’ bonds finance industrial tree plantations in Brazil

Mongabay.com 16 May 2019

Canopy-dwelling rainforest mammals most sensitive to human disturbance

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

Public education could curb bushmeat demand in Laos, study finds

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

On the island of Java, a social forestry scheme creates jobs at home

Nuswantoro 15 May 2019

Exploring a hidden rainforest on an isolated mountain in Mozambique

Mike Gaworecki 14 May 2019

Hunting for rare plants in inaccessible spots: Q&A with drone pilot Ben Nyberg

Shreya Dasgupta 13 May 2019

Reptile haven of Sri Lanka yields up new species of rough-sided snake

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 May 2019

Wariness over Indonesian president’s vow to get tough on land disputes

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2019

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