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A traffic jam in Dhaka.

Not so fast, experts warn as Dhaka tries to clear the air with car tax and bus ban

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 16 Jun 2023
Manoka, Cameroon: solitary fisher with a fish in their right hand, stepping away from three canoes beached on a shimmering mudflat, to a concrete jetty in the bottom right. Image by Christophe Nyemeck Beat

Element Africa: offshore oil threatens fisheries, gold mining topples homes and forests

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2023
Chiang Mai lawsuit

Citizens demand sustainable solution to haze crisis in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 6 Jun 2023
Metal debris in water near SpaceX launch site. Image courtesy of the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries program of Defenders of Wildlife.

Don’t destroy Earth on the way to Mars (commentary)

Sharon Wilcox 23 May 2023

Even in recycling, microplastics remain a persistent polluter, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 May 2023
Aerial view of a massive pile of black coal looming over a small pool and scattered trees near Carolina, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image courtesy Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Authority.

South Africa: Little hope in green transition in town with “the dirtiest air in the world”

Anna Weekes 26 Apr 2023

Indigenous Amazon forests absorb noxious fumes and prevent diseases from wildfires, study suggests

Jenny Gonzales 11 Apr 2023
Logged trees for biomass in Bischofsheim, Germany.

EU woody biomass final policy continues threatening forests and climate: Critics

Justin Catanoso 3 Apr 2023
A wood pellet mill in North Carolina.

Japan, EU & UK biomass emissions standards fall short and are full of loopholes, critics say

Annelise Giseburt 14 Mar 2023

Element Africa: Claims of mining encroachment in DRC and broken promises in SA

Mongabay.com 8 Mar 2023

Element Africa: Lead poisoning, polluted rivers, and ‘calamitous’ mining regulation

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2023
The dilapidated home of Ambroise Ondoa, local leader from Nkol-Bifouan, damaged by vibrations from the Febe village quarry. Image © Yannick Kenné.

Tense neighbors: Chinese quarry in Cameroon takes a toll on locals

Yannick Kenné 24 Jan 2023
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Poisoned by pesticides: Health crisis deepens in Brazil’s Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 16 Jan 2023
The blackened earth shows where banana trees used to be.

“Sinchiurco is coated with oil”: The Kichwa people going up against Petroecuador

Ana Cristina Alvarado 14 Dec 2022
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

New criminal code rings alarms for environmental protection in Indonesia

Basten Gokkon 6 Dec 2022
Wide shot of scattered buildings on green hills, a mountain on the horizon. Image by Victoria Schneider for Mongabay.

In South Africa, a community says no after a coal miner said go

Victoria Schneider 28 Nov 2022
A boy playing near Tendele's washing plant: the coal mine has impacted life in the community. Image by Rob Symon via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘I have anger every day’: South African villagers on the mine in their midst

Anna Weekes 28 Nov 2022

Sulawesi nickel plant coats nearby homes in toxic dust

Eko Rusdianto 17 Nov 2022
Fires near the community of Quitunuquiña in the municipality of Roboré in the department of Santa Cruz. Photo courtesy of Claudia Belaunde.

Bolivian protected areas hit hard by forest fires

Iván Paredes Tamayo 10 Nov 2022
Air pollution in Kathmandu.

Another winter of discontent as Kathmandu braces for deadly air pollution

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Nov 2022
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

Early retirement for Indonesian coal plants could cut CO2, boost jobs, analysis says

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2022
A rice farmer harvesting in rice fields.

Thailand bets on coal despite long losing streak for communities

Kannikar Petchkaew 13 Oct 2022
Sorting through plastic

Experts decry ‘funny math’ of plastics industry’s ‘advanced recycling’ claims

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Sep 2022

In revising its criminal code, Indonesia risks unraveling environmental laws

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2022
Sadikin

A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatra’s forest fire ‘hell’

Suryadi 1 Aug 2022
Adam, one of the residents of Rusunawa Marunda.

For residents of Jakarta’s port district, coal is the neighbor no one wants

Fadiyah Alaidrus 27 Jul 2022
Smoke from a factory in Turkey

Turkey’s authoritarian development ignores planetary boundaries

Clément Girardot 21 Jul 2022
Indonesian designer Singgih Kartono, founder of Spedagi

Bamboo mamas and bikes help with Indonesian diplomacy

Ebed de Rosary, Nuswantoro 29 Jun 2022

As Jakarta chokes on toxic air, Indonesian government stalls on taking action

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jun 2022

Indonesia’s Sangihe islanders score legal victory over mining company

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jun 2022
Street in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

World’s worst air pollution slashes 7 years off life expectancy in Bangladesh

Mahadi Al Hasnat 16 Jun 2022

Even Antarctic snow can’t escape the plastic peril, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2022

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