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Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?

Mike Gaworecki 13 May 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa 70% of the population lives from agriculture — and specifically rainfall agriculture.

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

Saul Elbein 10 May 2021

Sri Lanka to ban palm oil imports, raze plantations over environmental concerns

Malaka Rodrigo 9 May 2021

Water crisis in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara linked to mining, observers say

Ebed de Rosary 5 May 2021

Ecuadoran water fund transforms consumers into conservationists

Dimitri Selibas 4 May 2021

A year after Ecuador oil spill, Indigenous victims await justice, reparations

Vincent Ricci 29 Apr 2021

Scientists warn of looming water crisis with millions of wells at risk

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2021

Though humanity exceeds key ‘planetary boundaries’ there are many solutions

Mike Gaworecki 8 Apr 2021

Rare captive-bred crocodiles develop new, ‘odd’ habits in Philippine wild

Erwin M. Mascariñas 2 Apr 2021

The nine boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet habitable

Claire Asher 30 Mar 2021
Lone figure in dugout canoe emerging from reeds on river. Image by Patrik M. Loeff via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Growing concern over Okavango oil exploration as community alleges shutout

Jim Tan 22 Mar 2021

Threats loom large over Amazon’s Arrau turtles, despite record number of hatchlings

Suzana Camargo 17 Mar 2021

Reforested areas rival mature forests in securing water, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Mar 2021

Organizations aim to block funds for East African oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2021

‘The river will bleed red’: Indigenous Filipinos face down dam projects

Karlston Lapniten 26 Feb 2021

Calls for accountability after coal-slurry spill in Indonesian river

Della Syahni, Sapariah Saturi 19 Feb 2021

Indigenous leaders killed in Philippines were ‘red-tagged’ over dam opposition

Jun N. Aguirre 8 Feb 2021

Dusty winds exacerbate looming famine in Madagascar’s deep south

Rivonala Razafison 29 Jan 2021

Plantations, mines didn’t worsen flood, Indonesia says. The data begs to differ

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Jan 2021

Palm oil plantations, coal mines linked to deadly Indonesia flood

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jan 2021
The Durmitor Mountains and the Tara River Canyon in Montenegro. Image by Pudelek (Marcin Szala) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Protesters hold back military takeover of Balkans’ largest mountain pasture

John Cannon 18 Jan 2021

Whale shark stranding points to silting of Indonesia’s Kendari Bay

Ian Morse 13 Jan 2021
Woman maintaining fish trap in waist deep water near Mashare, Namibia. Image by Mp3ief via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Alarm as exploratory drilling for oil begins in northern Namibia

Jim Tan 28 Dec 2020

Historical analysis: The Amazon’s mineral wealth — curse or blessing?

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 21 Dec 2020
Pine forest in the Sierra Nevada. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Bold sustainability commitments: An interview with Microsoft’s Lucas Joppa

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2020
Degraded forests are highly susceptible to fires set by ranchers and farmers. This August 2019 is burning into degraded forest from a recently cleared area. Image © Fábio Nascimento.

Lasers reveal steep decline in ecosystem function of degraded Amazon forests

Tess Joosse 16 Dec 2020

Ecuador’s palm oil law a boon for producers, but not people and planet, groups say

Sol Borja 1 Dec 2020

Fueled by impunity, invasions surge in Brazil’s Indigenous lands

Ana Ionova 25 Nov 2020

For sustainable business, ‘planetary boundaries’ define the new rules

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Nov 2020

Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on Indigenous lands

Eduardo Goulart de Andrade, Hyury Potter, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 13 Nov 2020
A white salt inflorescence along the edge of a salinised wetland in a drought stressed Australian wetland. Photo by Luke Mosley.

For global wetlands, intensifying droughts pose a ‘diabolical’ threat

Liz Kimbrough 30 Oct 2020

Years after defeating a giant gold mine, activists in Colombia still fear for their lives

Juan Zuleta Valencia 29 Oct 2020

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