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Global Witness reveals that Norsudtimber, the DRC's largest logging company, is operating illegally on 90% of its sites, breaching the DRC Forest Code through a lack of management plans and logging outside authorized perimeters. The report highlights how the DRC government is complicit in this illegality, while international donors from France, Germany, and Norway continue to support industrial logging under the flawed theory of 'sustainable forest management' (SFM). Norsudtimber uses a complex web of shell companies in Liechtenstein, Hong Kong, and Dubai to obscure its beneficial owners and trade timber to markets in China, Vietnam, and Europe. The investigation finds that SFM is scientifically unsound for the Congo Basin, as tree species take 100-230 years to mature, far exceeding the 25-year rotation cycle. Furthermore, the report documents negligible development benefits for local communities and significant carbon emissions resulting from forest degradation.

The minutes detail a public hearing where Al-Sherman Limited and an EIA expert presented plans for a proposed salt works in Kilifi County. While some residents supported the project for potential employment, significant opposition emerged regarding unresolved squatter issues on the project land, with many demanding a written agreement and National Lands Commission (NLC) resolution before work begins. Environmental concerns were raised regarding vegetation clearing, mangrove protection, water well contamination, and the impact of salt brine on marine life and local infrastructure.

The Living Planet Report 2018 documents a severe global decline in biodiversity, highlighted by a 60% drop in vertebrate populations since 1970. It identifies overexploitation and agriculture, driven by runaway human consumption, as the primary threats. The report emphasizes that nature provides essential services worth approximately US$125 trillion annually and calls for an ambitious international agreement to 'bend the curve' of biodiversity loss through a roadmap of clear goals, measurable indicators, and transformative actions.

The Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation and Earthjustice are opposing Calpine Corp.'s request to build the 275-megawatt Mission Rock Energy Center on the banks of the Santa Clara River (Utom). The project is criticized for threatening a sacred Chumash site, endangering species like the southwestern willow flycatcher and Bell's vireo, and adding significant pollution to Santa Paula, a community already struggling with air quality standards. The authors argue the plant is unnecessary and contradicts California's transition toward clean energy.

The review concludes that the specialist reports for the Yzermyn underground coal mine are insufficient, failing to identify all environmental impacts and the interconnection between hydrogeology, hydrology, and wetlands. Consequently, the issued IWUL lacks sufficient conditions to mitigate impacts to an acceptable standard. Key failures include a low-confidence groundwater model (Class 1) that cannot quantify seasonal variations, a lack of field-based wetland delineation for the underground mining area, and the absence of a post-closure water treatment cost analysis. The report highlights that mine dewatering will likely cause significant drawdown in shallow and deep aquifers, potentially drying up high-value wetlands and springs, while post-closure acid mine drainage (AMD) and contaminant plumes remain unsimulated and unquantified.

The Santa Cruz Declaration, issued by the Green Economy Coalition, asserts that micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and addressing climate vulnerabilities. The declaration highlights that SMEs constitute 95% of the world's private enterprises and 60% of private sector employment, positioning them as the primary engines for disruptive innovation and social transformation. It calls on governments, civil society, and academia to partner with green SMEs to build sustainable livelihoods and rethink systems that hinder sustainable business models.

Twenty-three major retailers and consumer goods companies, including Tesco and McDonald's, have called on soy and cattle agribusinesses to stop deforestation in Latin America, particularly in Brazil's Cerrado. Mighty Earth argues that with 500 million acres of degraded land available, native ecosystem destruction is unnecessary. The organization urges companies like Cargill and Bunge to expand their Amazon deforestation efforts to other regions and proposes a land-use change monitoring system for soy-growing areas costing between $750,000 and $1,000,000 to establish.

The report details a conflict analysis conducted in the Maiko-Tayna-Kahuzi-Biega (MTKB) landscape of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. It identifies specific conflicts in Maiko National Park, Kahuzi-Biega National Park, and the Itombwe Nature Reserve, analyzing their root causes and effects to propose targeted interventions. The document emphasizes the use of conflict-sensitive conservation (CSC) tools—such as conflict trees and stakeholder mapping—to balance biodiversity protection with the needs of local populations and the realities of regional instability.

A coalition of indigenous groups and conservation organizations petitions the U.S. government under the Pelly Amendment to investigate six mining projects in British Columbia (Tulsequah Chief, Red Chris, Schaft Creek, Galore Creek, KSM, and Brucejack). The petitioners argue these mines threaten woodland caribou, grizzly bears, and Pacific salmonids through habitat destruction, toxic pollution, and increased traffic on Highway 37. They specifically highlight the risk of acid mine drainage and tailings dam failures, citing the 2014 Mount Polley disaster. The petition requests a referral to the International Joint Commission to address these transboundary threats to Southeast Alaska's ecosystems and economies.

Mighty Earth's investigation in Côte d’Ivoire reveals that cocoa production is the primary driver of illegal deforestation in protected areas, such as Scio, Goin Debe, and Mount Peko National Park. The report describes a system where farmers encroach on parks, kill ancient trees to open the canopy, and collaborate with predatory loggers to harvest remaining hardwoods. This process has led to the loss of over 80% of the country's forests between 1960 and 2010 and the eradication of primate populations in 13 of 23 surveyed protected areas. Despite commitments from 34 major chocolate companies and the Ivorian government to end deforestation, the report finds that illegal cultivation continues in broad daylight, supported by an 'open secret' of government inaction and the presence of illegal settlements numbering around 30,000 people in parks like Marahoué and Mont Péko.

The document argues that the PMRA's re-evaluation of glyphosate is flawed due to the dismissal of critical evidence concerning ecological risks, human health impacts, and the inefficiency of proposed risk management strategies.

A coalition of environmental and animal welfare organizations urges the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to withdraw proposed incidental harassment authorizations (IHAs) for five industrial seismic surveys off the U.S. East Coast. The document argues that NMFS used outdated scientific thresholds to underestimate the 'take' of marine mammals, failed to account for cumulative impacts of multiple surveys, and ignored significant harm to prey species and acoustic habitats. It specifically highlights the risk to the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, asserting that the proposed activity could be a "tipping point" for the species' survival. The coalition further claims that the proposed mitigation measures, such as seasonal closures and visual monitoring, are insufficient and not based on the best available science.

The document argues that the environmental impact of food production is far broader than tropical deforestation, affecting a wide array of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. It introduces the concept of "arcs" of habitat loss to categorize these impacts. Key areas of concern include the degradation of soils, the unsustainable depletion of groundwater aquifers, the pollution and loss of freshwater ecosystems, the conversion of carbon-rich grasslands, the disappearance of endangered tropical dry forests, and the physical destruction of the ocean floor through bottom trawling. The authors emphasize that sustainable food production requires optimizing performance across these diverse ecological systems rather than focusing solely on productivity.

The report examines the proposed Stiegler's Gorge hydropower dam in Tanzania, highlighting significant risks to the Selous Game Reserve (a World Heritage Site) and the Rufiji-Mafia-Kilwa Marine Ramsar Site. It argues that the project would cause irreversible damage to the region's Outstanding Universal Value, disrupt downstream ecosystems, and threaten the livelihoods of approximately 200,000 people. The document also questions the project's financial feasibility and reliability given climate change and suggests alternative energy sources such as natural gas, solar, wind, and geothermal power.

The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and partner organizations argue that the PMRA's re-evaluation of glyphosate is flawed due to the dismissal of critical evidence regarding biodiversity loss, human health risks, and the inefficiency of current risk mitigation strategies.

The report details how the rapid growth of the viscose industry in China, India, and Indonesia has led to severe water and air pollution, causing health crises such as cancer and birth defects in local communities. It identifies a lack of transparency in the fashion supply chain and finds that major brands, including H&M, Zara (Inditex), and ASOS, source materials from these polluting factories. The document argues that because the industry is highly concentrated—with 70% of global viscose produced by ten factories—major brands have the leverage to force a transition toward closed-loop production systems and less toxic chemicals.

The document argues that the EU is not "living within the limits of our planet," significantly exceeding its equal-per-capita fair share of the global safe operating space for climate change and biogeochemical flows. It proposes downscaling global boundaries to regional levels to create benchmarks for both production- and consumption-based performance, highlighting that EU consumption often exerts higher pressure than the global average. While the EU has various policy instruments addressing individual boundaries, the brief notes a lack of integration regarding interlinkages between processes and the EU's international environmental footprint.

The document describes zebra mussels as filter-feeding molluscs from Eastern Europe that attach to hard surfaces in high densities. It details their spread from the Great Lakes into Manitoba, likely via the Red River or overland transport, and identifies their presence in the Red River and Lake Winnipeg. Ecological risks include the depletion of algae affecting fish and insect populations, as well as the potential for shoreline algal blooms. The author advises the public to clean equipment moved from Lake Winnipeg to other water bodies and warns of physical injury from sharp shells.

The document outlines twelve key signs of climate change, including rising global, ocean, and soil temperatures, increasing ocean acidity, and rising sea levels. It attributes these phenomena to the buildup of heat-trapping gases caused by the burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of tropical forests. The text highlights specific regional impacts, such as the rapid warming of the Gulf of Maine and the thawing of permafrost in the Arctic, and notes the resulting increase in extreme weather events and shifts in species ranges.

The author contends that the 'feed the world' slogan used by industrial agriculture masks a system that exacerbates poverty and environmental degradation. The text argues that industrial farming fails the FAO's four criteria for food security—availability, accessibility, resilience, and quality—by promoting monocultures, seed concentration, and market speculation. It highlights how European agricultural subsidies and exports can destroy local rural economies in developing nations. As an alternative, the document promotes agroecology and peasant farming, which emphasize endogenous development, crop diversity, and ecological interaction to achieve genuine food sovereignty.