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A man walks past solar panels.

No plans, no progress make Peru’s energy transition uncertain

Yvette Sierra Praeli 1 Aug 2024

Hydropower dams threaten fishing communities on the Amazon

Bruno Kelly, Kevin Damasio 31 Jul 2024

Hydropower plants disrupt fishers’ lives in Amazon’s most biodiverse river basin

Kevin Damasio 31 Jul 2024
Trees cut down for biomass.

Biomass power grows in Japan despite new understanding of climate risks

Annelise Giseburt 29 Jul 2024
A fisherman feeds his net into the Mekong River on the Thai-Lao border by Chiang Saen.

On heavily dammed Mekong, tracking study tries to find where the fish are going

Anton L. Delgado 24 Jul 2024

Oxygen made by metal redefines scientific understanding

Bobby Bascomb 24 Jul 2024

As New England forests are razed for solar power, experts urge smarter siting

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Jul 2024

Rare earth elements may be found in coal mines, study finds.

Bobby Bascomb 20 Jul 2024
Illegal logging routes sprawl out of the Stung Meteuk dam construction site, leading into Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodian hydropower dam may be linked to illegal logging

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2024
The Padarincang community rejecting the geothermal project. They are worried that it will have a negative impact on their lives in the future.

Java farmers vow to live under own steam as geothermal project falters

Irfan Maulana 12 Jul 2024

Indigenous communities in Sarawak left in the dark about hydropower proposal

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 9 Jul 2024

Global migratory freshwater fish populations plummet by 81%: Report

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jul 2024
Significant deforestation was linked to the Lower Russei Chrum dam, which has been operational in Koh Kong province since 2015. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Hydropower dams further undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 28 Jun 2024
The sprawling Stung Meteuk hydropower dam being developed in the Cardamom Mountains appears to be illegally logging within Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

History repeats as logging linked to Cambodian hydropower dam in Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 27 Jun 2024

French court greenlights lawsuit against EDF over wind farm in Mexico

Chris Arsenault, Philippe Le Billon 26 Jun 2024

As wind, solar farms expand in Brazil, space for traditional communities shrinks

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Jun 2024
Members of BirdWatch Zambia with binoculars, pointing at something interesting out of the frame. Image © WeForest

Zambian forest reserve rebounds with a little assistance

Ryan Truscott 20 Jun 2024

Sugarcane megaproject poses latest threat to Papua’s forests, communities

Hans Nicholas Jong, Sarjan Lahay 19 Jun 2024

Burning wood is not ‘renewable energy,’ so why do policymakers pretend it is?

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 11 Jun 2024
Farmers burning cleared forest land after harvesting. Photo courtesy of Buu Nguyen.

Can Vietnam’s forests survive the spread of acacia and eucalyptus plantations? (commentary)

Buu Nguyen 4 Jun 2024
20/20 Catalysts, an intensive Indigenous clean energy capacity-building program, at the Nanticoke Solar Project in Six Nations of the Grand River in the summer of 2022.

Indigenous communities make clean energy drive work for, not against, them

Sarah Sax 3 Jun 2024

Pressure grows on banks to end business with Indonesian coal giant Adaro

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 May 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Mexico’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 27 May 2024
Tropical forest in Panama. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Cutting forests for solar energy ‘misses the plot’ on climate action (commentary)

Judith D. Schwartz 24 May 2024
The James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green credentials of electric vehicles come under fire

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 23 May 2024
Farming in Myanmar

Will the Mekong and Salween pay the price of China’s energy transition?

Carolyn Cowan 22 May 2024
Xayaburi Dam

Banks backing Mekong hydropower failing on due diligence, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 20 May 2024

Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition

Didier Makal 14 May 2024
A red-whiskered bulbul in Nijhum Dwip.

Bangladesh island’s switch from solar power to fossil fuels threatens birds

Sadiqur Rahman 14 May 2024
Walhi's action to reject plans to build a nuclear power plant in West Kalimantan in front of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources

Indonesia civil society groups raise concerns over proposed Borneo nuclear reactor

Irfan Maulana 14 May 2024

UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants

Justin Catanoso 6 May 2024
Electric irrigation pump in a paddy field in Chuadanga, Bangladesh.

Rocky rollout for Bangladesh’s ambitious solar-powered irrigation plans

Abu Siddique 6 May 2024

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