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In Cambodia, Indigenous villagers lose forest & land amid carbon offset project

Jack Brook 24 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 wild boar at Parsa National Park.

Nepal’s youngest national park looks to elevated lanes to prevent roadkill

Abhaya Raj Joshi 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
Thap Lan patrol

Thai plan to redraw boundaries of tiger reserve sparks concern and criticism

Carolyn Cowan 22 Jul 2024

Trophy hunting of Amboseli’s super-tuskers in Tanzania sparks outrage, calls for a ban

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Jul 2024

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

Daniel Shailer 17 Jul 2024
A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

‘Fungibility’ could sink Convention on Biodiversity’s funding mechanism Decision 15/9 (commentary)

Joseph Henry Vogel 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
Young traditional dancers wearing ténabari around their ankles perform the danza del pascola y venado (the dance of the pascolas and the deer).

Loss of water means loss of culture for Mexico’s Indigenous Yaqui

Aimee Gabay 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
Fishermen in the Sundarbans do not have internationally-recognized rights.

Sundarbans fisherfolk are battered by cyclones amid fishing bans

Sadiqur Rahman 15 Jul 2024
A coal mine in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Jokowi’s religious mining rule divides Indonesia’s largest Islamic organization

Asad Asnawi, Christ Belseran, Irfan Maulana 15 Jul 2024
The Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh.

Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal project: A catalog of worries (analysis)

Pham Phan Long 15 Jul 2024

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

Julia Christian 12 Jul 2024
The Padarincang community rejecting the geothermal project. They are worried that it will have a negative impact on their lives in the future.

Java farmers vow to live under own steam as geothermal project falters

Irfan Maulana 12 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

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

Amanda Magnani 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
Guasimas Bay has been contaminated by agrochemicals and waste that is released from shrimp farms not far from the coast.

As drought parches Mexico, a Yaqui water defender fights for a sacred river

Aimee Gabay 9 Jul 2024
Lupine flowers in sunshine in Milford Sound, New Zealand. Image by Aneta Hartmannová via Unsplash.

Is ‘legal personhood’ a tool or a distraction for Māori relationships with nature?

Monica Evans 8 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

Mother Nature Cambodia activists sentenced to prison — again

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 2 Jul 2024

Across Mexico, World Cup infrastructure threatens biodiversity and communities

Alice Pistolesi, Monica Pelliccia 2 Jul 2024

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

Liz Kimbrough 1 Jul 2024

Indonesia must integrate marine protection with fisheries subsidies, study says

Basten Gokkon 29 Jun 2024

Sweeping reform package threatens environmental protections in Argentina, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jun 2024
nuclear missiles

The $91 billion wasted on nuclear weapons last year could transform ecosystem restoration (commentary)

Melissa Parke 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
Common brown lemur

Madagascar lemurs, tortoises seized in Thai bust reveal reach of wildlife trafficking

Carolyn Cowan 28 Jun 2024

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