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Invasion of the crayfish clones: Q&A with Ranja Andriantsoa

Rowan Moore Gerety 27 Jan 2021

Paper giant APP failing its own sustainability goals, report alleges

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Jan 2021

Award-winning Thai community continues the fight to save its wetland forest

Carolyn Cowan 11 Jan 2021

Indonesia renews peat restoration bid to include mangroves, but hurdles abound

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jan 2021

Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia

Gustavo Jiménez Gonzáles 30 Dec 2020
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
Satellite imagery shows fires spreading across Pantanal Matogrossense National Park in early November 2020.

‘Devastating’ fires engulf Brazilian Pantanal wetlands – again

Ana Ionova 23 Dec 2020

A Malagasy community wins global recognition for saving its lake

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Nov 2020

As fire season ends, Brazil cited for failed Amazon and Pantanal policies

Jenny Gonzales 9 Nov 2020

Video: Vets hail ‘victory’ as jaguar burned in Pantanal fires returns to wild

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 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
Tendele mine, Somkhele. Image courtesy Rob Symons.

South African activist killed as contentious coal mine seeks to expand

Fred Kockott, Matthew Hattingh 28 Oct 2020

Indonesia’s ‘militarized agriculture’ raises social, environmental red flags

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Oct 2020

‘Zero-deforestation’ paper giant APRIL justifies clearing of Sumatran peatland

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2020

Paper giant APRIL linked to Borneo forest clearing despite zero-deforestation vow

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Oct 2020

Fire burns Pantanal’s upland heart and threatens nature’s fragile balance

Fernanda Wenzel 19 Oct 2020

Fires raze nearly half of Indigenous territories in Brazil’s Pantanal

Bianca Muniz, Bruno Fonseca, Raphaela Ribeiro from Agência Pública 6 Oct 2020

For the Pantanal’s jaguars, fires bring ‘death by a thousand needle wounds’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Sep 2020

In Brazil’s Pantanal, a desperate struggle to save a hyacinth macaw refuge from fire

Jennifer Ann Thomas 17 Sep 2020

500 years of species loss: Humans drive defaunation across Neotropics

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Sep 2020
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Experts question integrity of Indonesia’s claim of avoided deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Sep 2020

Paper giant APP linked to Indonesia peat clearing despite sustainability vow

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2020
Microsoft Zoom Earth satellite image show a section of burned peatland in the region in Central Kalimantan where the rice project is planned.

Indonesia pushes rice estate project despite environmental red flags

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Aug 2020

Mauritius grapples with worst environmental crisis in a generation

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Aug 2020

Fires in Argentina’s Paraná Delta are burning ‘out of control’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Aug 2020

Brazilian Amazon protected areas ‘in flames’ as land-grabbers invade

Ana Ionova 7 Aug 2020

Fires in the Pantanal: ‘We are facing a scenario now that is catastrophic’

Ana Ionova 6 Aug 2020

In Bogotá, communities weave an unlikely wetland success story

Genevieve Glatsky 4 Aug 2020
Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Upgrade of Indonesian palm oil certification falls short, observers say

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jul 2020

COVID-19 may worsen burning and haze as Indonesia enters dry season

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jul 2020

Palm oil from Indonesian grower that burned forest is still being sold

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Jun 2020
Mangrove forest at MSN island, where groups hope to use the land as an educational center and nursing ground for various mangroves species. Photo by Ann Wang

Mangrove collapse ‘inevitable’ unless emissions curbed

Lauren Crothers 18 Jun 2020

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