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A landslide near Manizales in the Central Andes. In 2011, a landslide broke a pipe supplying water from the cloud forests and paramos into city, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without access to water for 10 days.

In landslide-prone Colombia, forests can serve as an inexpensive shield

Gianluca Cerullo 13 Apr 2022
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

Indonesia’s Riau province declares state of emergency ahead of fire season

Suryadi 5 Apr 2022
A bird rescued from the oil spill is cared for by personnel from the national wildlife agency, SERFOR. Image courtesy of SERFOR.

Oil spill contaminates wildlife, beaches and protected areas in Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 25 Mar 2022

In Puerto Rico, a marathon effort builds to restore mangroves and dunes

Liz Yanira Del Valle Huertas 17 Mar 2022

Latest Nigeria oil spill highlights ‘wretched’ state of the industry

Mongabay 24 Feb 2022

Two storms in two weeks carve trail of death and destruction in Madagascar

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2022

Typhoon exposes biodiversity haven Palawan’s vulnerability — and resilience

Keith Anthony Fabro 24 Jan 2022

Déjà vu for Indigenous villagers in Brazil as floods leave them homeless again

Sarah Brown 21 Jan 2022
Natural forest (left) versus an oil palm plantation (right) in Indonesia. Photo credits: Rhett A. Butler

Proposal could redefine palm oil-driven deforestation as reforestation in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2022

As its glaciers melt, Nepal is forced into an adaptation not of its choosing

Johan Augustin 27 Dec 2021

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