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The Amazon’s most fertile forests are also most vulnerable to drought: Study

Claire Asher 26 Jul 2024
Madre de Dios in the Peruvian Amazon observed the extent of river damage due to gold mining.

Gold mining in the Amazon has doubled in area since 2018, AI tool shows

Fernanda Wenzel 26 Jul 2024
Mangroves in Vietnam

In choice of mangroves or livelihood, Vietnam shrimp farmers choose the latter

Carolyn Cowan 25 Jul 2024

Short on funds and long on risk, Venezuelan conservation groups worry for future

Maxwell Radwin 25 Jul 2024

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

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jul 2024

To host 2025 climate summit, Brazil will carve up an Amazonian reserve

Sarah Brown 23 Jul 2024
A group of Bunong farmers harvest rice in Sre I village in the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary.

Can a carbon offset project really secure Indigenous rights in authoritarian Cambodia?

Jack Brook 22 Jul 2024

A Guatemalan reserve turns from civil war refuge to deforestation hotspot

Bobby Bascomb 22 Jul 2024

Minerals for agricultural use can already be found in Amazonia

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Jul 2024

After 2-year wait, Sonoran wilderness protection law gets closer to reality

Daniel Shailer 17 Jul 2024
Mercury being used to agglomerate gold.

Report reveals widespread use of smuggled mercury in Amazon gold mining

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Jul 2024

‘Extinct’ trees found in Tanzania spark hope for ecosystem recovery

Ryan Truscott 16 Jul 2024
Tar sands developments along the Athabasca River in Alberta, British Columbia.

A year after toxic tar sands spill, questions remain for affected First Nation

Ruth Kamnitzer 16 Jul 2024

Women in Sierra Leone unite after devastating floods | Mongabay Sessions

Romi Castagnino 15 Jul 2024

Ugandan chimps are eating bat guano, raising concerns over human epidemics

Juliette Portala 15 Jul 2024
Costa Rica rainforest

Conservation pays and everyone’s benefitting from it (commentary)

Diego Vincenzi 15 Jul 2024

Let’s reduce poverty & deforestation via greater EUDR traceability requirements (commentary)

Julia Christian 12 Jul 2024

Sumatra pulp & paper giants violate zero-deforestation pledge, activists allege

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2024

Panama’s ‘Caribbean Corridor’ highway threatens three protected areas, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jul 2024
Header image: Generated image suggestive of a bleak and burned-out patch of Amazon rainforest

“Game over” for the Amazon forest and global climate if Trump wins? (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 11 Jul 2024
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

Shrimp farms threaten Mexico’s mangroves and the jaguars that inhabit them

Sarah Brown 11 Jul 2024

After historic 2023 drought, Amazon communities brace for more in Brazil

Amanda Magnani 10 Jul 2024
Soil fertilization process in an oil palm plantation.

Indonesia’s oil palm smallholders get a boost in bid for sustainability

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jul 2024

Brasil, Venezuela and Peru: the geography of industrial metals

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Jul 2024

As logging booms in Suriname, forest communities race to win land rights

Maxwell Radwin 4 Jul 2024

Brazil’s new pro-agribusiness pesticide law threatens Amazon biodiversity

André Schröder 3 Jul 2024

Across Mexico, World Cup infrastructure threatens biodiversity and communities

Alice Pistolesi, Monica Pelliccia 2 Jul 2024
BC wildfire service crew and partners conduct a prescribed burn in southeastern British Columbia in April 2024.

As the world burns, can we learn to live with wildfire health risks?

Ruth Kamnitzer 2 Jul 2024

Study says 40% of Amazon region is potentially conserved — more than officially recorded

Liz Kimbrough 1 Jul 2024
Two Yanomami men carrying wood in the Amazon forest.

Organized crime brings renewed threats to Yanomami in Brazil

Aimee Gabay 1 Jul 2024
A member of a Quebequois fire crew assisting on a fire in the Plumas National Forest in northern California in 2020.

The health impacts of escalating megafires are everyone’s problem

Ruth Kamnitzer 1 Jul 2024

BASF, Eramet drop $2.6b Indonesian nickel project that threatens isolated tribe

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Jul 2024

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