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Sri Lanka seeks peace with pachyderms as human-elephant conflicts escalate

Malaka Rodrigo 10 Jul 2021

Colombia brings landmark rulings of importance closer to Indigenous communities

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 9 Jul 2021

Our World Heritage is deeply tied to rivers and they need protection from dams (commentary)

Gary Lee, Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Eugene Simonov 9 Jul 2021
Planet image of Altamira (-5.79, -53.69) in the State of Pará, Brazil taken on August 8, 2020. Courtesy of Planet.

Amazon deforestation rises modestly in June

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2021

Environmental defenders in Ecuador aren’t safe, new report shows

Kimberley Brown 9 Jul 2021
Green peafowl

Green peafowl flourish in Thailand’s northern forests, but conflict looms

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jul 2021
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

‘Technical problems’ holding up enforcement of rulings in Indonesian fire and haze cases, official says

Yoga Eki Saputra 8 Jul 2021

As Arctic melt sets early July record, hard times lie ahead for ice: Studies

Gloria Dickie 8 Jul 2021

Seafloor microbes hoover up methane, keeping global warming in check

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jul 2021
Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Jul 2021

Overcoming community-conservation conflict: Q&A with Dominique Bikaba

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jul 2021
Coastal net pens for salmon aquaculture in Norway. Image by Brataffe via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

For Norway salmon farms giving up deforestation-linked soy, Cargill proves a roadblock

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 7 Jul 2021

Billions in fishing subsidies finance social, ecological harm, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Jul 2021

Tiger habitat threatened by Malaysian royals’ mining plans

Rachel Donald 7 Jul 2021

Activists take Indonesia’s mining law to court, but don’t expect much

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jul 2021
A mural of murdered activists Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo by disoniador via Pixabay.

Former dam executive found guilty in the killing of Berta Cáceres

Mongabay.com 6 Jul 2021

Wildfires turn up the heat on farmers growing Indonesia’s ‘hottest’ pepper

M Rahim Arza 6 Jul 2021

In DRC, community ownership of forests helps guard the Grauer’s gorilla

Marlowe Starling 6 Jul 2021

Playing the long game: ExxonMobil gambles on algae biofuel

Carly Nairn 6 Jul 2021

The true environmental cost of the Internet (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 5 Jul 2021

Naming of new ant species from Ecuador breaks with binary gender conventions

Jansen Baier 5 Jul 2021

Amid historic heat, a climate scientist’s mountain love story (commentary)

Heidi Steltzer 5 Jul 2021

In the Brazilian Amazon, a road project drives the threat of deforestation

Jennifer Ann Thomas 5 Jul 2021

‘Abnormally high’ turtle deaths after acid-laden ship sinks off Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 4 Jul 2021

Deforestation soars 40% in Xingu River Basin in Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 2 Jul 2021

Nauru’s intention to mine the seabed prompts alarm among conservationists

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jul 2021

Biofuel in Mexico: Uphill battle against bureaucracy, organized crime

Sandra Weiss 2 Jul 2021

Myanmar’s warring military and rebels find common ground in corrupt jade trade

Andrew Nachemson, Kyaw Hsan Hlaing 2 Jul 2021
Oil palm fruit. Image by Dave Barce via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Blind spot in palm policy raises deforestation risk in Malaysia, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 2 Jul 2021

In the Colombian Andes, a forest corridor staves off species extinction

Veronika Perkova 2 Jul 2021
Clouded leopard. Image by Ltshears via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Carving up the Cardamoms: Conservationists fear massive land grab in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball, Phoung Vantha 1 Jul 2021

‘We are intimately connected with nature’: Q&A with oceanographer Kim McCoy

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Jul 2021

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