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Meet the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 30 Nov 2020
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

As 2020 Amazon fire season winds down, Brazil carbon emissions rise

Liz Kimbrough 16 Nov 2020
An uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon photographed in . © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI.

2020 fires endangering uncontacted Amazon Indigenous groups

Liz Kimbrough 28 Oct 2020
A coral reef in Indonesia. Photo by Grant Thomas / Coral Reef Image Bank.

Ambitious and holistic goals key to saving Earth’s biodiversity, study says

Liz Kimbrough 26 Oct 2020
Satellite image of a major fire in the savannas of Beni on September 12, 2020. Data from Planet. Image courtesy of MAAP.

In Bolivia, more than 25% of major fires this year burned in protected areas

Liz Kimbrough 12 Oct 2020
Rainforest rainbow in Sabah. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

World leaders endorse ‘Pledge for Nature’ to address planetary emergency

Liz Kimbrough 29 Sep 2020
Illustration of Landsat satellite Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Cente

New partnership brings high-resolution satellite imagery of the tropics to all

Liz Kimbrough 25 Sep 2020
A Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus) spends time in the moist Amazon understory foraging. Photo by Philip Stouffer.

As the Amazon burns, what happens to its biodiversity?

Liz Kimbrough 24 Sep 2020

We are failing to save the planet’s species, finds UN report

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2020
A mother koala and her joey who survived the forest fires in Mallacoota. Australia, 2020. Photo by Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals

Around the world, a fire crisis flares up, fueled by human actions

Liz Kimbrough 4 Sep 2020
Rainforest cleared for a coconut plantation Dua Saudara Mountain in North Sulawesi. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia bill weakening environmental safeguards to pass in October

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2020
Planet image of Altamira (-5.79, -53.69) in the State of Pará, Brazil taken on August 8, 2020. Courtesy of Planet.

Can we predict where Amazon fires will occur? And to what end?

Liz Kimbrough 21 Aug 2020

Forests are a solution to climate change. They’re also vulnerable to it

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2020

Less than a thousand remain: New list of animals on the brink of extinction

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jun 2020

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund drops major Brazil miner, utility from its portfolio

Ashoka Mukpo 19 May 2020

Large indigenous territories are necessary for culture and biodiversity in Brazil, study says

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2020

Trendy, cheap, and dirty: Fashion is a top global polluter

Liz Kimbrough 23 Apr 2020

Field research, interrupted: How the COVID-19 crisis is stalling science

Liz Kimbrough 9 Apr 2020

Watchdogs lament palm oil giant Wilmar’s exit from forest conservation alliance

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Apr 2020

Indonesian lawmakers push to pass deregulation bills as COVID-19 grips country

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Apr 2020

Conservationists set the record straight on COVID-19’s wildlife links

Liz Kimbrough 13 Mar 2020

CITES appeals to countries to watch out for trafficked Malagasy rosewood

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Oct 2019

Indonesia defers legislation seen as harming the environment — for now

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Oct 2019

War on graft in mining, palm oil hit by new law weakening Indonesian enforcer

Hans Nicholas Jong, Lusia Arumingtyas 25 Sep 2019

Top court holds Indonesian government liable over 2015 forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jul 2019

Rare rhino’s death should light a fire under Indonesia (commentary)

Jeremy Hance 30 May 2019

A Malagasy community races the timber mafia to save its forest

Malavika Vyawahare 10 May 2019

Less rainforest, less rain: A cautionary tale from Borneo

Jeremy Hance 23 Apr 2019

Palm oil, logging firms the usual suspects as Indonesia fires flare anew

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2019

Report highlights secretive business dealings of Indonesian VP hopeful

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2019

It’s Generation Climate (commentary)

Jeremy Hance 14 Mar 2019

Indonesian minister blasted over palm permit for graft-tainted concession

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Feb 2019

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