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Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Belo Monte and the Río Xingu

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Aug 2023
Three pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus).

New concession in Botum Sakor National Park handed to Cambodia’s Royal Group

Gerald Flynn 22 Aug 2023
Tires by the road.

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: The Madeira Hydropower Complex

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Tucuruí and the Tocantins Cascade

Timothy J. Killeen 16 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: The Guri complex and the Caroni Cascade

Timothy J. Killeen 11 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: A shift toward reduced impact facilities, but the controversy continues

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Aug 2023
Ponkar Lake is a moraine-dammed glacial lake in Bimthang Valley in Manang, Nepal. Image courtesy of Sudan Bikash Maharjan/ICIMOD.

Nepal’s climate change adaptation strategy needs One Health approach (commentary)

Krishna Prasad Acharya, Shamsudeen Fagbo 4 Aug 2023

Infrastructure in the Pan Amazon: The Guiana Shield and the Coastal Plain

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Aug 2023
Aerial view of the mine and stockyard of Vale's S11D Complex in Pará State. Image by Ricardo Teles for Agência Vale.

Can Lula balance the transition to renewable energy with Amazon mining expansion? (commentary)

Gabriela Sarmet and Christian Poirier 2 Aug 2023

Infrastructure in the Andean Amazon: The Carretera Marginal de la Selva

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Aug 2023
Tridi Oasis recycles PET bottles to produce rPET flakes which could be used to make packing materials and textiles.

Funding circularity: Investing in Asia’s circular economy business models

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 Aug 2023
Gorillas in Cameroon.

Cameroon government again opens way for logging in Ebo Forest

Leocadia Bongben 1 Aug 2023
The critically endangered dark sitana (Sitana fusca).

Nepal’s BP Highway threatens endemic, critically endangered lizard

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jul 2023
A farmer in Colombia checks her coffee bushes.

The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot?

Sean Mowbray 27 Jul 2023

The Andean republics of the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Jul 2023

The Human-Modified Landscapes (HML) and the Brazilian highway network

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Jul 2023
The last pocket of forest in Botum Sakor National Park is threatened by new roads, some of which are demarcation boundaries for parcels of forested land that have been awarded to Cambodian senator and tycoon Ly Yong Phat's family. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Cambodia awards swath of national park forest to tycoon Ly Yong Phat’s son

Gerald Flynn & Meng Kroypunlok 26 Jul 2023
Pulau Tioman

Airport proposal for Malaysian island doesn’t fly with conservationists

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jul 2023

Roads are primary vectors of deforestation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Jul 2023

Infrastructure defines the future: Chapter 2 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Jul 2023

What can solve growing conflicts between agricultural giants and communities in Cameroon?

Yannick Kenné 17 Jul 2023

On burning-prone Borneo, planners work to fireproof Indonesia’s new capital

Mongabay Haze Beat 17 Jul 2023

Current policy approaches in the Amazon: certainly necessary, but are they sufficient?

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Jul 2023

The challenge of the future (and lessons from the recent past) in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Jul 2023

Opposition grows to Indonesia’s resumption of sea sand exports

Basten Gokkon, Sarjan Lahay 8 Jul 2023

Monetizing nature: The under-explored power of the Amazon’s natural capital

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Jul 2023

An Indigenous revival in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Jul 2023
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Bill stripping Peru’s isolated Indigenous people of land and protections scrapped

Dimitri Selibas 5 Jul 2023

The largest land set-aside in history

Timothy J. Killeen 29 Jun 2023

Environmental governance in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Jun 2023

Environmental policy and action on the ground in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Jun 2023

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