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A biodiversity index created by Bioverse using machine learning to detect species and then spatially categorize them. Image courtesy of Bioverse.

Can digital twins help save the Amazon? (commentary)

Carlo Ratti, Robert Muggah 2 Nov 2023
Digital screens in New York's Times Square.

The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 2 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Industrial infrastructure for grains and cereals

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Nov 2023

As fire season worsens, Indonesian activists report four companies for burning

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2023
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Critical questions remain as carbon credit deal in Sabah presses forward

John Cannon 1 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Global markets for soybean and corn crops

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Oct 2023
An elephant with her mahout at the project, which employs 58 people, 48 of them from local communities.

A sanctuary for elephants and forests in Cambodia

John Cannon 31 Oct 2023
Sun bear

Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2023
pantanal fire

Jaguar haven in Brazil’s Pantanal burns amid ‘new normal’ of wildfires

Sarah Brown 30 Oct 2023

Environmental groups speak out against arrival of Mennonite farmers to Suriname

Maxwell Radwin 30 Oct 2023
Skywalker hoolock gibbon

Myanmar’s primates and their guardians need more support, study says

Carolyn Cowan 30 Oct 2023
A mountain gorilla encountered during a gorilla tourism trek in Uganda.

Gorilla permit fraud dents community-led conservation efforts in Uganda

Malavika Vyawahare, Nangayi Guyson 27 Oct 2023

Malaysian logger Samling’s track record leaves Indigenous Sarawak questioning its plans

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 26 Oct 2023

For 1st time, Indonesia government recognizes ancestral forests in Aceh — but only some

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Oct 2023

Intensive agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Soy, maize and other field crops

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Oct 2023

Livestock farming in the Andean Amazon and the rest of the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2023

New satellite readings show full extent of mining in the Amazon Rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 24 Oct 2023

Indigenous Suruí turn invaders’ crop into high-quality Amazonian coffee

Patricia Moll 24 Oct 2023

Forest conservation ‘off-track’ to halt deforestation by 2030: New report

John Cannon 24 Oct 2023
Efforts to extinguish the fire around Sungai Buluh Kecil, in the Tanjung Puting National Park area, mid-September 2023.

Young firefighter killed battling inferno in Borneo orangutan habitat

Budi Baskoro 24 Oct 2023
Andean cock of the rock bird in Manu. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Sound recordings and AI tell us if forests are recovering, new study from Ecuador shows

Liz Kimbrough 23 Oct 2023

Sumatran Indigenous seafarers run aground by overfishing and mangrove loss

Suryadi, Tonggo Simangunsong 23 Oct 2023

New Paraguay law aims to improve carbon credit market

Maxwell Radwin 20 Oct 2023
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Deforestation surges in hotspot of critically endangered Bornean orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2023

National versus global markets – beef in the Brazilian Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Oct 2023
Kuikuro men playing flutes.

The Amazon’s archaeology of hope: Q&A with anthropologist Michael Heckenberger

Peter Speetjens 18 Oct 2023

Industrial infrastructure in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Oct 2023
The platforms can carry environmental sensors and could be useful tools to disperse sensors in far-flung areas.

Origami-inspired sensor platforms tumble like leaves to study forests

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Oct 2023
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) takes over the surface of lakes.

Bangladesh survey records invasive alien plants threatening protected forests

Farhana Parvin 17 Oct 2023
Nnimmo Bassey and the team at the spill site at Eteo community in Ogoni, Rivers State.

Stop playing politics with climate change: Q&A with Nigeria’s Nnimmo Bassey

Abdulkareem Mojeed 17 Oct 2023
Protesters traveled from Las Naves, and across the country, to protest mining activities in their communities in front of the Constitutional Court, during a hearing to debate Decree 754 on September 18, 2023.

Tensions flare as Ecuador’s environment consultation process is put to the test

Kimberley Brown 16 Oct 2023
This Planet satellite image shows how extreme drought in the Amazon has reduced the Rio Negro to a trickle. Image Ⓒ 2023 Planet Labs PBC

Despite severe drought, Amazon deforestation continues to slow

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Oct 2023

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