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High quality cacao in Amazonia

Timothy J. Killeen 29 Nov 2023

Cargill widens its deforestation-free goals, but critics say it’s not enough

Maxwell Radwin 29 Nov 2023

New algorithm looks at how Amazon vegetation will behave after climate change

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 29 Nov 2023

In DRC, Virunga deforestation escalates as fighting sends refugees into park

Elodie Toto 29 Nov 2023

Panama copper mine to close after Supreme Court rules concession unconstitutional

Maxwell Radwin 28 Nov 2023

Cultivation and processing of Amazonian coffees

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Nov 2023
A REDD+-supported nursery at Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

Carbon credit certifier Verra updates accounting method amid growing criticism

John Cannon 28 Nov 2023

In Brazil’s Amazon, a clandestine road threatens a pristine reserve

Ana Ionova 24 Nov 2023

Coffee and cacao in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Nov 2023
Community tree nursery

How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2023

Biofuels in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Nov 2023
Bow Lake in Banff, Canada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Vizzuality data set aims to give companies full view of supply chain impacts

Maxwell Radwin 21 Nov 2023
Aerial view showing a massive ring of thousands of whole trees at Enviva’s Sampson County, North Carolina

Enviva, the world’s largest biomass energy company, is near collapse

Justin Catanoso 20 Nov 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Jurisdictional REDD+ ready to fund forest-positive, socially-inclusive development in the Amazon and beyond (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 20 Nov 2023
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

French banks accused of money laundering linked to Amazon deforestation

Dimitri Selibas 16 Nov 2023

New platform offers toolkit for companies to prove their eco claims

Claudia Geib 16 Nov 2023
Posito Daom, a Pala'wan, pauses on his descent to the lowlands to sell chayote cultivated using the no-till method, a sustainable practice that avoids turning over and disturbing the soil, according to studies.

Indigenous farmers’ hard work protects a Philippine hotspot, but goes overlooked

Keith Anthony Fabro 16 Nov 2023
Forest in British Columbia. Photo: Rhett A. Butler

Calls for FSC to drop Canada’s Paper Excellence over ties to deforester

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2023
Cattle pastures and forest in San Miguelito, Bolivia, during 2019. Credit: Rhett A. Butler.

Why has deforestation reached record levels in Bolivia? (commentary)

Jonathan Reynolds 15 Nov 2023
Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

As Colombia’s coca economy crashes, new opportunities — and threats — arise

Mie Hoejris Dahl 15 Nov 2023
A young boy tries to help a fallen donkey stand during a severe drought that struck the Horn of Africa.

Beyond Climate: Fossil fuels rapidly eroding Earth’s ‘safe operating space’

Sean Mowbray 15 Nov 2023
Workers clean an oil spill that has polluted a beach on Salamina Island, Greece.

Beyond climate: Oil, gas and coal are destabilizing all 9 planetary boundaries

Sean Mowbray 14 Nov 2023
An anonymous pipeline-affected person in Tanzania, January 2022.

Disturbing graves is latest violation attributed to East African oil pipeline

Justin Catanoso 14 Nov 2023

Can blockchain clean up the gold industry in Brazil and across the globe?

Charlie Espinosa and Charles Lyons 14 Nov 2023

How the U.S. financial system props up illegal logging and mining

Maxwell Radwin 14 Nov 2023

What does oil palm require to reach international markets?

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Nov 2023
Oil palm plantation workers wait for the truck to take them to work.

Palm oil cultivation in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Nov 2023
Planet satellite image of the Anavilhanas Archipelago in the Rio Negro in Brazil in October 2023 during a severe drought. Courtesy of Planet.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon falls 22% in 2023

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Nov 2023
A volunteer firefighter from the Power of Mama group.

In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew

Mongabay Haze Beat 10 Nov 2023

Amazon deforestation has a regional, not just local impact: study

Maxwell Radwin 10 Nov 2023

‘We just want to be left in peace’: In Brazil’s Amazon, soy ambitions loom over Indigenous land

Ana Ionova 9 Nov 2023
Oil palm fruit collection in a plantation.

Oil palm in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Nov 2023

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