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Young girls line up at a feeding centre in Mogadishu, Somalia

Climate change amplifies the risk of conflict, study from Africa shows

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Jul 2022
A woman in Satkhira washes dishes in a pond.

For women on Bangladesh’s coast, rising seas pose a reproductive health dilemma

Jesmin Papri 8 Jul 2022
A fish market in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Fish-farming practices come under scrutiny amid surge in aquaculture

Nick Rodway 6 Jul 2022
Ibrahim with the underground water source

In Thailand’s deep south, a fight to stop quarrying in a global geopark

Kannikar Petchkaew 6 Jul 2022
Rede Wayuri co-founder Marivelton Barroso and ISA socioenvironmental policy specialist Juliana Radler receive the 2022 Rule of Law Award.

Indigenous reporters awarded for fight against fake news deep in the Amazon

Juliana Ennes 5 Jul 2022
Joan Carling, Indigenous rights activist of the Indigenous Peoples' Major Group, speaking at COP26 climate talks Forest in November 2021. Image courtesy of Karwai Tang/ UK Government via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Disappointment and a few wins, Indigenous leaders react to Nairobi biodiversity talks

Laurel Sutherland 1 Jul 2022
“Guardians of the Forest” Paulo Paulino Guajajara (left) and Laércio Guajajara (right)

Indigenous advocates sense a legal landmark as a guardian’s killing heads to trial

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2022

Andean eagles have managed to adapt to fragmenting habitats — for now

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jun 2022
Erasmo and Natalha Theofilo

Amazon rainforest activist under threat in Brazil plans to flee his home

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jun 2022
Caroline Chepkoeh poses for a photo with her husband and extended family outside of her home near the Mau Forest Complex in western Kenya. Image by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

African court rules in favor of Indigenous land titles, reparations from the Kenyan government

Laurel Sutherland 28 Jun 2022
The nursery at the heart of Minawao nurtures the green shoots of a recovery.

Cameroon’s Nigerian refugees who degraded their camp are now vanguards of reforestation

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 28 Jun 2022
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

In Brazil, an Indigenous land defender’s unsolved killing is the deadly norm

Sarah Brown 27 Jun 2022

We’re winning with climate activism, ‘just not fast enough,’ says Goldman Prize winner Julien Vincent (commentary)

Julien Vincent 24 Jun 2022

Study: Marine governance in Indonesia pursues exploitation over sustainability

Basten Gokkon 23 Jun 2022
Raphael Mapou, Kanak leader who established the environmental organization Rhéébù Nùù. Image courtesy of Lachie Carracher.

Nickel, Tesla and two decades of environmental activism: Q&A with leader Raphaël Mapou

Nick Rodway 22 Jun 2022
The Goro Mine in southern New Caledonia. Image courtesy of Lachie Carracher.

All eyes on Tesla as it invests in a troubled nickel mine

Nick Rodway 22 Jun 2022

Mining company destroys Indigenous cemetery during expansion in Honduras

Maxwell Radwin 21 Jun 2022

Indonesia’s Sangihe islanders score legal victory over mining company

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jun 2022
Vigil for Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira

The war on journalists and environmental defenders in the Amazon continues (commentary)

Karla Mendes 16 Jun 2022
Dom Phillips, interviewing the Ashaninka Indigenous people

Deaths of Phillips and Pereira shine light on a region of the Amazon beset by violence

Sue Branford 16 Jun 2022
Protest in front of the Brazilian National Congress, in 2019.

Brazil shows no progress in response to U.N. calls on Indigenous rights

Carla Camargo Fanha 15 Jun 2022
A conservationist working on a seagrass restoration project.

Sea restoration projects quilt a ‘mosaic of habitats’ with striking results

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jun 2022
Maasai walking in rain in Kenya. Image courtesy of David via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Maasai protesters shot, beaten as Tanzania moves forward with wildlife game reserve

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 14 Jun 2022
Christina Haverkamp (center), founder of the German NGO Hilfe Yanomami, with Indigenous children. The activist has been going to Brazil since the 1990s and says wildcat miners are disrupting the life of the Yanomami people. Image courtesy of Hilfe Yanomami.

At 30, Brazil’s Yanomami reserve is beset by mining, malaria and mercury

Peter Speetjens 9 Jun 2022
A persian leopard. Image via Peoples Trust for Endangered Species.

Protect Persian leopards, and their defenders, for World Environment Day (commentary)

Jane Goodall, Hedieyeh Tehrany 3 Jun 2022
Portrait of Sarayaku Warmikuna, member of Mujeres Amazónicas (Amazonian Women). The women of the community were the first to be part of the collective known as Amazonian Women. Image courtesy of Esteffany Bravo.

A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Astrid Arellano, Yvette Sierra Praeli 31 May 2022
Mohéli hosts one of the largest nesting sites for green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Indian Ocean.

For 20 years, Comoros had only 1 national park. It’s now creating 5 more

Malavika Vyawahare 31 May 2022
Residents of the Mura Indigenous village of Murutinga, in Brazil’s Amazonas state, take over a boat belonging to employees of the electricity company, who have come to cut off the community's energy supplies. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Push for potash mine in Brazil’s Amazon looms over Indigenous people

Ana Ionova 27 May 2022

Indigenous community mounts legal challenge to Thai coal mine development

Carolyn Cowan 27 May 2022

Meet the 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 25 May 2022
Marereni Biodiversity Conservancy members during a beach clean-up on the shores of the Indian Ocean in Marereni, Kenya.

200 mysterious sea turtle deaths: Q&A with Kenyan fisherman and turtle rescuer Daniel Katana

Anthony Langat 23 May 2022

Investors force Home Depot to review wood-sourcing policy over logging concerns

Maxwell Radwin 23 May 2022

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