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A steel production site in China.

Aluminum and steel vital to energy transition, but need circular solutions

Sean Mowbray 18 Sep 2024
Blast furnace in Duisburg, Germany.

Aluminum and steel take environment and health toll, even as demand grows

Sean Mowbray 17 Sep 2024
Bhuddhist prayer flags ib Pachu Community Tourism center.

Ecotourism offers new hopes for Bhutanese youth — and local environments

Choki Wangmo 6 Sep 2024
An aerial view of illegally logged timber in Chhaeb-Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary that was documented on a patrol in April 2023 by members of the Prey Preah Roka Community Network – a grassroots activism group made up of communities around the wildlife sanctuary. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

World’s top timber companies are dropping the ball on ESG reporting: Analysis

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Aug 2024
Peter Kamowa settled in the edge of the forest and helps to guard it from invasion. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

As Malawi government struggles to protect a forest, communities show the way

Charles Mpaka 29 Aug 2024
Farmers on rice terraces in Bali.

In Bali, water temple priests guide a sustainable rice production system

Elizabeth Sinclair 26 Aug 2024
Prince Bissiemou measures a tree in a logged forest in Gabon. Image by Megan Sullivan.

Logging done sustainably doesn’t have to harm ecosystem services, study finds

Leocadia Bongben 22 Aug 2024
Building a pergola at the entrance to the Cocotá Agroforest, 2023. Image courtesy of Cocotá Agroforest collective.

Rio’s grassroots agroforestry sustains birds, bees & communities

Bernardo Araujo 13 Aug 2024
Coffee bean harvesting in Yangambi DRC. Image courtesy of Axel Fassio/CIFOR_ICRAF

Study highlights environmental and economic benefits of agroforestry for DRC coffee crops

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Aug 2024

Indonesia, EU reconcile forest data ahead of new rules on deforestation-free trade

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2024
Luís Adriano Nascimento, chemist and vice-coordinator of the Laboratório de Óleos da Amazônia (Amazon Oils Laboratory, LOA), stands at a lab bench with a wide collection of Amazonian fruits and seeds used to make oils, biofuels and bioplastics.

Raw materials become high-value bioeconomy goods at an Amazon science park

Sarah Brown 6 Aug 2024
Agroforestry products Thailand

Agroforestry offers Thai rubber farmers a pathway to profit and sustainability

Carolyn Cowan 31 Jul 2024
Bioplastics drying during a testing setting.

Most ‘compostable’ bioplastics are anything but, says new report

Alden Wicker 31 Jul 2024
Hymenaea courbaril

Time for a copal comeback? The natural resin could boost Amazon’s economy

Fernanda Wenzel 30 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
A salmon farm in Bugoynes, Finnmark, Norway.

As aquaculture hits historic highs, let’s ensure sustainability is prioritized (commentary)

Erika Feller 10 Jul 2024

For the first time ever, we’re farming more seafood than we’re catching: FAO

Elizabeth Fitt 3 Jul 2024

Indonesia must integrate marine protection with fisheries subsidies, study says

Basten Gokkon 29 Jun 2024

Living under the apartheid of Brazil’s soybean capital

Luiz Felipe Silva 26 Jun 2024
Torosiaje fisherman's octopus harvest.

Indonesia’s Avatar sea nomads enact Indigenous rules to protect octopus

Sarjan Lahay 20 Jun 2024
Beekeeping in Thailand

Beekeeping helps villagers tend coastal forests in Thai mangrove hotspot

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jun 2024
Wendy Schmidt explores Agog’s website in webXR as Amy Seidenwurm, chief of programs and strategy for Agog, looks on. Credit: Ben Gibbs / Agog

Using immersive media to strengthen support for the environment: An interview with Wendy Schmidt

Rhett A. Butler 17 Jun 2024
He‘eia fishpond.

Restoring Indigenous aquaculture heals both ecosystems and communities in Hawai‘i

Keona Blanks 5 Jun 2024
Farmers burning cleared forest land after harvesting. Photo courtesy of Buu Nguyen.

Can Vietnam’s forests survive the spread of acacia and eucalyptus plantations? (commentary)

Buu Nguyen 4 Jun 2024

Indonesian fishers mount a community-led fight against destructive fishing

Fathul Rakhman, Wahyu Chandra 4 Jun 2024
Keo Vannob returns from fishing to his home in Botum Sakor National Park. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Fishers left with no land, no fish, in fire sale of Cambodian coast

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 4 Jun 2024

Analysis: Michelin’s no-deforestation claims in Indonesia rubber plantation a stretch

Stefano Valentino 30 May 2024
Trawlers docked outside Sihanoukville. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Small-scale fishers lose out to trawlers in race to catch Cambodia’s last fish

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 30 May 2024

A fishing community celebrates its right to manage a Brazilian state park

Luís Patriani 28 May 2024
A yellowfin tuna.

No mercy for overfished yellowfin tuna at Indian Ocean fisheries meeting

Francesco De Augustinis 23 May 2024

Indonesian activist freed in hate speech case after flagging illegal shrimp farms

Basten Gokkon 22 May 2024
shrimp farm

Venezuela’s shrimp farms push for sustainability against hardship and oil spills

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres, María Fernanda Rodríguez 15 May 2024

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