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Stone, Sand, Water: the key ingredients changing the Salween landscape

Demelza Stokes 21 Dec 2016

Fire on the Salween: Dams in conflict zones could threaten Myanmar’s fragile peace process

Demelza Stokes 1 Dec 2016

Trump vows Paris Agreement pull out; world unites behind green economy

Justin Catanoso 17 Nov 2016
Residents of Kiad in Panama’s indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé semi-autonomous region retur home after shopping in the nearby town of Tolé. Photo by Camilo Mejia Giraldo

Program targets food security concerns among Panama’s indigenous women

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 3 Oct 2016
Goejet Miranda crosses the part of the Tabasará River still flowing near his community of Kiad. Photo by Camilo Mejia Giraldo

PHOTOS: Panama begins “test-flooding” dam over indigenous protests

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 15 Sep 2016
Aerial photo shows the town of San Pablo de Amalí, the Dulcepamba River, and the Hidrotambo dam facility. Photo by Santiago Pastór

Dam opponents claim criminalization by Ecuadorian government

Martha Pskowski 9 Sep 2016
Ricardo Miranda, one of the protest leaders and member of the M10 movement representing Ngäbe communities affected by the dam. Photo by Camilo Mejia Giraldo

PHOTOS: Panama revives stalled dam over strong indigenous opposition

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 25 Aug 2016

These countries are growing their economies and lowering emissions at the same time

Mike Gaworecki 6 Apr 2016

Can a virtual fence help protect birds from human structures?

Julia John 11 Feb 2016

Powered by the land: The Sumatran village that conserves forest for electricity

Ayat S. Karokaro 10 Sep 2015

Offshore wind farms could blunt hurricane damage

Loren Bell 28 Feb 2014

Coal’s future carbon costs may make it more expensive than wind energy

Matt Davenport 15 Nov 2013

‘Carbon bubble’ could cause next global financial crisis

Damian Carrington 22 Apr 2013

New wind power cheaper than coal or gas in Australia

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2013

Paradigm shift needed to avert global environmental collapse, according to author of new book The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse

Dr Liz Kimbrough 10 Jan 2013

Google invests $200m in west Texas wind farm

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2013

Scientists: if we don’t act now we’re screwed

Jeremy Hance 7 Jun 2012

Consumption, population, and declining Earth: wake-up call for Rio+20

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2012

For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how to make a better world

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2012

Brazilian mining company connected to Belo Monte dam voted worst corporation

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2012

EU’s biofuel push based on ‘flawed’ science

Mongabay.com 10 Oct 2011
Google Earth image showing deforestation frontier in the Brazilian Amazon.

Could palm oil help save the Amazon? (2011)

Rhett A. Butler 14 Jun 2011

Could palm oil help save the Amazon?

Rhett A. Butler 14 Jun 2011

Sugar cane cools climate when it replaces cattle pasture

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2011

Indigenous leaders take fight over Amazon dams to Europe

Jeremy Hance 2 Mar 2011

Photo gallery: Borneo paradise saved from beachside coal plant

Jeremy Hance 22 Feb 2011

Environmentalists and locals win fight against coal plant in Borneo

Jeremy Hance 16 Feb 2011

Is Obama’s clean energy revolution possible?

Jeremy Hance 26 Jan 2011

Prairie grass-based biofuels could meet half current fuel demand without affecting forests, food

Mongabay.com 26 Jan 2011

Indonesia to open protected forests to geothermal power

Mongabay.com 14 Jan 2011

Majority of Americans confused on climate change basics

Jeremy Hance 17 Oct 2010

Humanity consuming the Earth: by 2030 we’ll need two planets

Jeremy Hance 13 Oct 2010

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