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Water is key as study shows restoration of drained tropical peat is possible

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jun 2024
Amazon rainforest. Credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Emissions from loss of plant diversity spells massive climate trouble: Study

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jun 2024
Chun Seiha demonstrates the forest loss across Chi Ouk Boeung Prey, where almost all the large, valuable trees have been logged by Santana Agro. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodian companies tied to abuses promoted by UN program, rights group alleges

Gerald Flynn 5 Jun 2024

Honduran environmental defenders hit hard by human rights crisis, report says

Maxwell Radwin 28 May 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Mexico’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 27 May 2024

Guyana road projects spark concerns for future development on wetlands

Maxwell Radwin 21 May 2024

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2024

Organized crime puts unprecedented pressure on Guatemala’s largest rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 20 May 2024

NZ funding helps Indigenous farmers in Indonesia protect forests, boost incomes

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 May 2024

Amid ravaging wildfires in Venezuela, experts cite institutional collapse

Tony Frangie Mawad 14 May 2024
Industrial oil palm development outside Balikpapan

Latest palm oil deforester in Indonesia may also be operating illegally

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 May 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesian company defies order, still clearing peatlands in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 May 2024

New study says conservation works, providing hope for biodiversity efforts

Liz Kimbrough 1 May 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Panama’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 30 Apr 2024

Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2024
Silvia Vetancourt holds out a coin purse she is crocheting from cabuya fiber on the path to Plaza Gutierrez, Ecuador. Photo by Liz Kimbrough.

Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley

Liz Kimbrough 25 Apr 2024

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

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

Maxwell Radwin 10 Apr 2024

As fires ravaged Indonesia in 2023, some positive trends emerged, data show

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2024

How to ‘stop mining before it starts’: Interview with community organizer Carlos Zorrilla

Liz Kimbrough 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
Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis). Image courtesy of WWF Sweden.

Ancient giant river dolphin species found in the Peruvian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 20 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
The access road to the Stung Tatai Leu hydropower dam cuts through forest in the Central Cardamoms National Park, Koh Kong province, Cambodia in April 2022

New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 13 Mar 2024

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024

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