Canada’s 2023 wildfires outsmoked global aviation, yet emissions go uncounted
On a June day in 2023, New Yorkers woke up to an eerie scene: the sky had turned a murky orange, the sun a dim red orb in the haze.…
Anthropogenic Emissions
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Narco activity takes heavy toll on Colombia’s protected forests, satellite data show
- Photos confirm narcotraffickers operating in Peru’s Kakataibo Indigenous Reserve
- Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers
- Authorities struggle to protect Bolivian national park from drug-fueled deforestation
Oceans
- French Polynesians revive traditional rāhui to protect fish — and livelihoods
- For the first time ever, we’re farming more seafood than we’re catching: FAO
- ‘It is indeed our problem’: Interview with Mário Soares on Brazil’s mangroves
- In northern Spain, climate change is killing shellfish — and women’s livelihoods
Amazon Conservation
- Brazil’s new pro-agribusiness pesticide law threatens Amazon biodiversity
- Study says 40% of Amazon region is potentially conserved — more than officially recorded
- Environmental agents intensify strike amid record fires in Brazil
- Fire bans not effective as the Amazon and Pantanal burn, study says
Land rights and extractives
- Critics see payback in Indonesia’s plan to grant mining permits to religious groups
- Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition
- Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley
- Hyundai ends aluminum deal with Adaro Minerals following K-pop protest
Endangered Environmentalists
- Mother Nature Cambodia activists sentenced to prison — again
- Mongabay video screening at Chile’s Supreme Court expected to help landmark verdict in Brazil
- Indonesian activist freed in hate speech case after flagging illegal shrimp farms
- Final cheetah conservationists freed in Iran, but the big cat’s outlook remains grim
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest
- Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
- In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
- Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
Conservation Effectiveness
- How effective is the EU’s marquee policy to reduce the illegal timber trade?
- The conservation sector must communicate better (commentary)
- Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change
- Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
- Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
- Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
- To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest
