Biomass industry set to triple in size by 2030
The global biomass energy industry will triple by 2030, increasing woody biomass supply from monoculture plantations by 13 times and woody biomass supply overall by three times, according to a…
climate chaos in the Amazon rainforest
As Brazil prepares to host the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP30, the Brazilian government is sending a powerful message about its commitment to environmental conservation and sustainable development.…
green growth or good old greenwashing?
Brazil’s push to expand biofuels is central to its strategy to “drive the decarbonisation agenda” and build a robust “bioeconomy,” setting the stage for this to become a major focus…
Brazil Indigenous People subjected to soaring rates of suicide
Content warning: this article contains references to suicide, which readers may find distressing. Suicide is a major global public health issue, leading to approximately 700,000 deaths each year. While the…
Reuters Sustainability Awards disrupted by activists
Environmental activists have disrupted the Reuters Sustainability Awards ceremony in central London – stacked with big polluters. They aptly branded the event “The Greenwashing Awards” as the likes of corporate…
Indigenous people hold protests against evictions
Thousands of Adivasi (Indigenous) people across India have rallied against forced evictions in the name of tiger conservation. They held mass protests at several of the country’s most famous tiger…
investigation reveals Western NGOs complicity in project
The following investigation is by Monica Piccinini, Lucas Ferrante, and Philip Fearnside, and was originally published on 9 September, in Portuguese, on Amazonia Real Brazil’s Ministry of Transportation plans to…
two loggers killed in Mashco Piro attack, government blamed
At least two loggers have been killed, one wounded, and two more reported missing, in an encounter with uncontacted Mashco Piro people in Peru’s Amazon – the same Indigenous tribe…
FSC suspends logging company certification
On the 30 August, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) announced that it had suspended the certification of a notorious logging company bulldozing rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon. It comes amid…
protesters mobilise after cops and court repression
State servile cops and complicit courts have shielded climate-wrecker Drax from public scrutiny. So, between the 9 to 12 August, climate protesters mobilised. After a pre-emptive swathe of arrests, climate…
company biomass plant worst polluter in the UK
The day after cops pre-emptively nicked 22 peaceful protesters, a new report has revealed the staggering climate-wrecking impact of their target. In 2023, Drax biomass power station pumped out by…
Mashco Piro people are being let down and betrayed by the FSC
Three key Amazonian Indigenous organisations have issued an unprecedented joint statement, accusing the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) of deliberately delaying a decision on whether to withdraw certification from a notorious…