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A bee with a sunflower in Tokyo.

It’s the bee’s needs: Study finds best plants for bee health, conservation

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jul 2024

Living under the apartheid of Brazil’s soybean capital

Luiz Felipe Silva 26 Jun 2024
Coffee beans on a plant.

As coffee expands in Bangladesh hills, conservationists worry about ecosystems

Abu Siddique 21 May 2024
Active clearance and drainage of peatland rainforest in a concession run by PT Asia Tani Persada, which is also an orangutan habitat.

Toilet paper: Environmentally impactful, but alternatives are rolling out

Petro Kotzé 15 Mar 2024

Sugarcane: The monoculture that transformed southern Quintana Roo

Adriana Varillas and Alejandro Castro 21 Jun 2023

Palm oil: The crop that cuts into southeastern Mexico’s jungles and mangroves

Aminetth Sánchez 20 Jun 2023

Avocados: The green gold that wipes western Mexico’s forests from the map

Agustín del Castillo 16 Jun 2023

Planting deforestation: The forests that Mexico loses to agribusiness

Thelma Gómez Durán 14 Jun 2023

After Sri Lanka, Nepal debates exporting its ‘problematic’ monkeys

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 May 2023
New saplings grow on a rotting stump.

Japan’s example: Can forest planting reduce climate disaster risk?

Annelise Giseburt 15 Dec 2022
Reginaldo Oliveira.

In Brazil’s agricultural heartland, rivers run dry as monoculture advances

Ana Ionova 14 Dec 2022
Farmers with freshly harvested paddy.

Lack of finance prevents Bangladesh farmers from diversifying their rice crops

Abu Siddique 31 Aug 2022
Clearing the site with dynamite to access the vein of coal in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

In Indonesian Borneo, a succession of extractive industries multiplies impacts, social fractures

Elizabeth Fitt 13 Jun 2022

For a beekeeping couple in Costa Rica, pesticides are killing the buzz

Monica Pelliccia 1 Apr 2022

Across Latin America, palm oil violations abound — with little accountability

Tras las huellas de la palma alliance 5 Jan 2022

Brazil’s Suzano boasts its pulpwood plantations are green; critics disagree

Sue Branford 15 Dec 2021

COP26: “Work with nature in forest restoration,” says respected journalist

Sue Branford 4 Nov 2021

Should tree plantations count toward reforestation goals? It’s complicated

Gianluca Cerullo 10 Sep 2021

Mennonites said to deforest ancestral Indigenous land in Colombia

La Liga Contra el Silencio, Mongabay Latam, Rutas del Conflicto 4 Aug 2021

New platform gathers data on Brazil’s disappearing Cerrado biome

Clarissa Beretz 23 Feb 2021

Harvard fund evades justice in land-grabbing case over Cerrado farm

Caio de Freitas Paes 15 Oct 2020

Bubbles, lasers and robo-bees: The blossoming industry of artificial pollination

Liz Kimbrough 24 Jul 2020

Study projects 30% more forest cover if wood biomass is managed right; critics call it a disaster

Lauren Crothers 15 Apr 2020

Ecology monks in Thailand seek to end environmental suffering

Kiley Price 13 Aug 2018

Study reveals China’s new forests aren’t really forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Jun 2018

Philippine palm oil plan ‘equals corruption and land-grabbing,’ critics say

Brad Miller 31 Aug 2017
Moises Padilla near his community's nature reserve. Photo by Johnny Magdaleno/Mongabay

Indigenous farmers fight eucalyptus damage to water source in Ecuador

Johnny Magdaleno 28 Aug 2017

Philippines’ indigenous Higaonon fight for return of ancestral land

Brad Miller 1 Jun 2017
A yellow-fronted woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons) in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Photo by Germano Woehl Junior for the Instituto Rã-bugio para Conservação da Biodiversidade.

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, conservation efforts drown in a sea of eucalyptus

Ignacio Amigo 5 Apr 2017
Flooded sugar cane fields near Colombia's third largest city, Cali, in the department of Valle Del Cauca, during an intense rainy season. Photo by Neil Palmer (CIAT)

Colombia’s cane industry efficient but potentially damaging

Kimberley Brown 27 Mar 2017
A woman and donkey carry firewood and tree material from the Entoto forest. Photo by Ji-Elle via Wikimedia Commons.

Despite population growth and management challenges, hope for forests in Ethiopia

Elias Meseret 17 Mar 2017
Eucalyptus tree. Photo by Bidgee/Wikimedia Commons

Pressure over water in Brazil puts pulp industry in the spotlight

Ignacio Amigo 2 Mar 2017

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