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A group of young people in the forest in Kenema district, Sierra Leone. Image courtesy Sierra Leone Environment Matters.

Sierra Leone group helps farmers adapt to changing climate, protect forest

Emma Black 18 Sep 2024

Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024

How the Brazilian military sabotaged protection of Indigenous people in the Amazon

André Schröder 16 Sep 2024

Honduras taps armed forces to eliminate deforestation by 2029. Will it work?

Maxwell Radwin 13 Sep 2024

Extreme drought pushes Amazon’s main rivers to lowest-ever levels

Fernanda Wenzel 11 Sep 2024
A pair of sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) in a tree.

Wildlife busts in Malaysia’s Taman Negara show progress, and gaps, in enforcement

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 9 Sep 2024

Resilient and resourceful, Brazil’s illegal gold capital resists government crackdown

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Sep 2024

Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water

Fernanda Wenzel 5 Sep 2024

Nearly all Brazilian gold imported by EU is likely illegal, report says

Fernanda Wenzel 2 Sep 2024

Indonesia’s Farwiza Farhan among Ramon Magsaysay awardees for protecting Leuser Ecosystem

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi 2 Sep 2024
Tropical rainforests are not adapted to fire, and have no natural fire regime.

Brazil launches ‘war’ on widespread fire outbreaks & criminal arsonists

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Aug 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

Study shows most Amazon beef & soy demand comes from Brazil — not exports

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Aug 2024

Acre’s communities face drinking water shortage amid Amazon drought

Tácita Muniz 16 Aug 2024

Deal ends environmental agents’ strike in Brazil, but grievances fester

Fernanda Wenzel 15 Aug 2024
Aerial photo of the environmental conditions caused by an illegal crude oil well exploding in Pasir Putih village, East Aceh Regency, on 26 Apr., 2018.

Sumatran province brings hammer down on illegal oil wells after fatal blasts

Taufik Wijaya 15 Aug 2024

Communities fend off attacks as officials study Brazil’s anti-Indigenous land rights bill

Maxwell Radwin 13 Aug 2024
Fire in an area newly deforested in Brazil.

Forest degradation releases 5 times more Amazon carbon than deforestation: Study

Justin Catanoso 9 Aug 2024

Amazon Fraud 101: How timber credits mask illegal logging in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Aug 2024
Freshly harvested oil palm fruits.

Indonesia palm oil lobby pushes 1 million hectares of new Sulawesi plantations

Sarjan Lahay 8 Aug 2024

New datasets identify which crops deforest the Amazon, and where

Maxwell Radwin 2 Aug 2024

Hydropower plants disrupt fishers’ lives in Amazon’s most biodiverse river basin

Kevin Damasio 31 Jul 2024
Adriane Esquivel Muelbert and Evan Gora examine a fallen giant tree in the Amazon, hoping to identify hints of its cause of death.

Are the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate

Daniel Grossman 29 Jul 2024

Activists ask for help combatting violence against Nicaragua’s Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 29 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

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

Sarah Brown 23 Jul 2024

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

Amanda Magnani 10 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

Protected areas benefit nature & people, study says — with caveats

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Jul 2024

Study: A third of Africa’s great apes at risk from mining of transition metals

Anna Dulisse 28 Jun 2024
Since the beginning of the operation, government environmental agents have been destroying the logistical support of illegal mining, such as an airplane, a helicopter and a tractor, and have seized weapons and boats. Image courtesy of IBAMA by Ricardo Campos.

Environmental agents intensify strike amid record fires in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Jun 2024

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