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All aboard Tren Maya: Here’s what we found riding Mexico’s controversial railway

Maxwell Radwin 24 Apr 2024
Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Indonesian capital project finally gets guidelines to avoid harm to biodiversity

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2024

Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenous land – investigation

Andrew Wasley, Aramís Castro, Elisângela Mendonça 18 Apr 2024

Report links H&M and Zara to major environmental damage in biodiverse Cerrado

Dimitri Selibas 17 Apr 2024

The environmental mismanagement of enduring oil industry impacts in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Apr 2024
In the heart of the Cardamom Mountains, new hydropower dams threaten both protected forest and REDD+ projects. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas bear the brunt as forest loss continues across Cambodia

Gerald Flynn 17 Apr 2024

Haunting song pays tribute to Toughie, the frog whose extinction went unnoticed

Liz Kimbrough 10 Apr 2024

Brazil’s cattle industry could suffer major losses without climate policies, report says

Maxwell Radwin 10 Apr 2024

Illegal mining in the Pan Amazon: an ecological disaster for floodplains and local communities

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Apr 2024

Mining in the Pan Amazon in pursuit of the world’s most precious metal

Timothy J. Killeen 4 Apr 2024
Satellite image of wildfires in Quebec, Canada, in June, 2023.

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2024
A long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in Borneo.

Previously logged forests struggle to thrive, even with restoration, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Report links pulpwood estate clearing Bornean orangutan habitat to RGE Group

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2024
Deforestation for oil palm plantations in Sabah in 2012.

PalmWatch platform pushes for farm-to-fork traceability of palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Mar 2024

Deforestation from soy shows no sign of stopping in Cerrado, report says

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2024

Suriname cancels controversial Mennonite pilot program, but bigger problems loom

Maxwell Radwin 20 Mar 2024

Chocó land deal shows flaws in Ecuador’s forestry incentive program

Maxwell Radwin 18 Mar 2024

Palm oil deforestation persists in Indonesia’s Leuser amid new mills, plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2024

Norway pension fund breaks with U.K. conglomerate Jardines over endangered orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024

Ten years since anti-deforestation pledge, corporate world still not doing enough

Maxwell Radwin 6 Mar 2024

Major meatpackers are unlawfully deforesting Brazil’s Cerrado, report says

Maxwell Radwin 29 Feb 2024
A torrent of mining waste killed nearly 300 people when a tailings dam at Vale’s mine in Brumadinho collapsed in 2019.

Scientists now know how the Brumadinho dam disaster happened, and the lessons to learn

Sarah Sax 21 Feb 2024
A vast chunk of protected forest is being carved out of Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary. Sources claim Santana Agro is responsible. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

In Cambodia, an official’s cashew factory churns out timber from a protected forest

Gerald Flynn & Phoung Vantha 20 Feb 2024
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Road project promising access to Indigenous Waorani is ushering in deforestation

Aimee Gabay 19 Feb 2024
Deforestation for oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2016. Photo courtesy of Linus.

Palm oil deforestation makes comeback in Indonesia after decade-long slump

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024

Ecuador government weighs delaying closure of controversial ITT oil block

Maxwell Radwin 12 Feb 2024

Report shows Peru failed to stop Amazon deforestation for palm oil and cacao

Dimitri Selibas 8 Feb 2024

Harmful mining continues in Nicaragua despite U.S. sanctions, new investigation shows

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2024

Bid to mitigate gold mine’s impact on orangutans hit by stonewalling, data secrecy

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Feb 2024

Ecuador-China free trade agreement poses serious environmental risks, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jan 2024

In Mexico, Xalapa’s chronic water scarcity reflects a deepening national crisis

Amigzaday López Beltrán 23 Jan 2024
One of Global Green's new mining sites in Preah Vihear province that sits inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Sanctioned timber baron wins new mining concessions in Cambodia’s Prey Lang

Gerald Flynn & Phoung Vantha 23 Jan 2024

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