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Brazilian Amazon ‘cattle laundering’ taints JBS & Frigol supply chains: Report

Aimee Gabay 13 Jun 2024

Ancient farming system and campesino livelihoods at risk in Mexico City

Aimee Gabay 12 Jun 2024

Landmark ruling in Suriname grants protections to local and Indigenous communities — for now

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jun 2024
Joseph Kirimbwa, a coffee farmer in Uganda and a member of a Nespresso program that hires and manages coffee plantations in Africa.

With an eye on EU’s new rules, scientists test ways to capture Africa’s forest loss

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Jun 2024

Brazil police raid Amazon carbon credit projects exposed by Mongabay

Fernanda Wenzel 7 Jun 2024

Amazon deforestation threatens one of Brazil’s key pollinators, study shows

Molly Herring 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 palm oil firm clashes with villagers it allegedly shortchanged

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jun 2024

Narco activity takes heavy toll on Colombia’s protected forests, satellite data show

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 May 2024

Scientists and farmers restore Aztec-era floating farms that house axolotls

Aminetth Sánchez 31 May 2024
A middle-aged man in a dark gray shirt lifts an armload of water hyacinth. Image by Abd Almajed Alkarh for Mongabay.

From Egypt to Syria, ‘water cancer’ chokes waterways

Abd Almajed Alkarh, Lyse Mauvais 30 May 2024

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

Stefano Valentino 30 May 2024
Extensive cattle ranch Estância Bahia, in Água Boa, Mato Grosso state.

New bill to expand farmlands in the Amazon may derail Brazil’s green efforts

Fernanda Wenzel 29 May 2024

Yucatán Peninsula’s hidden underground life tracks changes at the surface

Astrid Arellano 29 May 2024

Honduran environmental defenders hit hard by human rights crisis, report says

Maxwell Radwin 28 May 2024
Some of the artists with the art installation

Mongabay investigation is turned into art for World Press Freedom Day event

Karla Mendes 27 May 2024

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

Maxwell Radwin 27 May 2024

In Brazil’s Cerrado, aquifers are losing more water than they can replace

Kevin Damasio 24 May 2024

Collective effort monitors Amazon wildlife in heavily logged Brazil state

Beatriz Santomauro 24 May 2024
Coffee beans on a plant.

As coffee expands in Bangladesh hills, conservationists worry about ecosystems

Abu Siddique 21 May 2024

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2024
Grael Bomowey poses with a fruiting butternut squash grown by her neighbor after receiving a seed from her collection. Image by Laurie Mae Gucilatar.

For drought relief, Cordilleran women in the Philippines rely on seed saving

Mavic Conde 17 May 2024
Catherine Toro

Tackling climate change in one of Colombia’s largest wetlands

César Giraldo 15 May 2024

‘Weather whiplash’ cycles of floods & droughts imperil Nigerian farming

Tarinipre Francis 15 May 2024

NZ funding helps Indigenous farmers in Indonesia protect forests, boost incomes

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 May 2024
A Dayak Pitap woman.

On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 15 May 2024
The red siskin.

Shade-grown coffee benefits birds, forests & people in Venezuela

James Hall 14 May 2024

Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition

Didier Makal 14 May 2024
Industrial oil palm development outside Balikpapan

Latest palm oil deforester in Indonesia may also be operating illegally

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 May 2024
A squash farmer next to his crops.

Bangladeshi farmers find zucchini’s high yields & low costs palatable

Farhana Parvin 9 May 2024

Pro-business parties accused of holding back Indonesia’s Indigenous rights bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 May 2024
Electric irrigation pump in a paddy field in Chuadanga, Bangladesh.

Rocky rollout for Bangladesh’s ambitious solar-powered irrigation plans

Abu Siddique 6 May 2024

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