Why are rainforests crucial for the planet?

The world's tropical forests are vital to human life and are a critical bulwark against climate change but they are under threat.

Life and death in a banana civilization

Are abuse, corruption and violence still inherent in multinational capitalism?

Amazon rainforest inhabitants share plan to save their home

Inhabitants of the Amazon have created a comprehensive plan to prevent climate and ecological collapse, focusing on ending fossil fuel subsidies and securing Indigenous land rights.Katie Surma reports for Inside Climate News.

ASEAN Environmental Rights Declaration Needs Transparency

An Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) working group should show it is genuinely interested in engaging with civil society if it wants to produce an effective environmental rights declaration, as it resumes drafting today in Kuala Lumpur, …

Selling the World’s Forests

For retailers, selling the world’s forests is risky business.

Investigation confirms more abuses on Cameroon, Sierra Leone Socfin plantations

In 2023, Socfin hired a consultancy to investigate longstanding allegations of human rights violations and environmental damage raised by communities living around the Belgian transnational company’s oil palm and rubber plantations in Africa and Sout…

Focus - Indonesia's biodiesel industry contributing to deforestation

Indonesia is aiming to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, with 30 percent of the country's energy slated to come from biodiesel by 2030. But the plan has caused alarm among environmental groups.

Kwara communities suffer deforestation, land degradation after departure of White Zimbabwe farmers

In 2004, some displaced white farmers from Zimbabwe arrived in the agrarian communities in the Shonga district of Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State.

EU27 countries in the spotlight for deforestation exposure | SEI

EU imports of cocoa and palm oil drive major global deforestation, new Trase research shows.

Is This Palm Oil Company Operating on Protected Forestland? - Inside Climate News

Friends of the Earth says Astra Agro Lestari’s sourcing methods infringe on protected forests in Indonesia, causing deforestation. The company disputes that.

Tree planting offset project in Sierra Leone: USD 2.5 million from BP but no community consent | World Rainforest Movement

A report documents how a tree planting carbon project in Port Loko, Sierra Leone is violating the country’s community rights laws and risks locking families into 50-year contracts. The British oil company BP has already paid USD 2.

Protecting key biodiversity havens could prevent extinctions

A coalition of ecologists and conservationists has identified almost 17,000 sites worldwide, which if adequately protected could prevent most likely and imminent extinctions.

When Customers and Investors Demand Corporate Sustainability

Through shareholder resolutions, letters, and activism, consumers and shareholders can push companies to clean up supply chains—and their reputations.

Paraquat: banned in Europe, on sale in Indonesia - Geographical

The dangerous pesticides destroying the lives of palm oil plantation workers in Borneo

Wild horses return to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries

Seven Przewalski’s horses, the only truly wild species of the animal in the world, flown to central Asian country from zoos in Europe

World’s top banks ‘greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon’

Institutions alleged to have given billions of dollars to oil and gas companies involved in projects that are harming the rainforests

Deforestation: Stakeholders Seek Amendment Of Forestry Commission Law, Accuse Government, Farmers And Miners

Land rights win for Indigenous peoples in Southwest Papua, but challenges persist

The Knasaimos Peoples in Papua have been granted legal land rights over their customary lands. However, enforcing these rights remains challenging, with a lack of political will and persistent targeting of merbau timber by loggers.

AI or humans? Rainforest seeks partner to police ghost roads

Hidden roads bring commerce and deforestation; now researchers hope AI may slow the destruction

The hidden exploitation behind clean energy's cobalt demand

Activists are raising awareness about the exploitation of Black workers and resources in the Congo, driven by the demand for cobalt used in clean energy technologies.Adam Mahoney reports for Capital B.

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

With their metallic-blue-and-green bodies and iridescent wings, orchid bees aren’t just charismatic bugs.

Vast concessions threaten Malaysia's forest: Report

Vast concessions in Malaysia's forests threaten millions of hectares of rich natural habitats and risk the country's commitment to 50 percent forest cover, a report warned Tuesday.

Indonesian palm oil firm clashes with villagers it allegedly shortchanged

JAKARTA — A dispute simmering for years has erupted into conflict between villagers and a palm oil company on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi over the latter’s failure to abide by a profit-sharing scheme.

Papuans head to Indonesian court to protect forests from palm oil

Campaigners are taking legal action to stop four palm oil companies from clearing vast tracts of forest for plantations.

Mesmerising microbes: bacteria as you’ve never seen it before – in pictures

Scientist Tal Danino’s incredible images of the microbial world