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

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jan 2024

International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists

Maxwell Radwin 2 Aug 2023

Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?

Maxwell Radwin 7 Feb 2023

El Salvador poised for big year of roadbuilding, despite environmental concerns

Maxwell Radwin 12 Jan 2023

Critics cite threats to communities, mangroves from El Salvador airport plans

Maxwell Radwin 15 Nov 2022

El Salvador declares rare ‘red alert’ amid surge in forest fires

Maxwell Radwin 4 Mar 2022

El Salvador women’s group takes a stand for river system targeted by development

Maxwell Radwin 6 Dec 2021

Central American countries pledge to protect Mesoamerica’s ‘5 Great Forests’

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2019
Fishers on an artificial reef in Jiquilisco Bay. Image by Max Radwin for Mongabay.

Bringing back the fish: Q&A with a repentant blast fisherman

Max Radwin 15 Jul 2019
Luis Gonzalez Benitez lost an arm while blast fishing and now splits his time between using nets and line fishing on the reef. Image by Max Radwin for Mongabay.

Salvadoran fishermen ditch blast fishing for artificial reefs

Max Radwin 10 Jul 2019

Chocolate and agroforestry accelerate in El Salvador

Anna-Catherine Brigida 14 Mar 2018

Communities band together to protect El Salvador’s last mangroves

Martha Pskowski 23 May 2017

El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining

Sandra Cuffe 30 Mar 2017

Communities conserving local forest in El Salvador vote to ban mining

Sandra Cuffe 28 Mar 2017

El Salvador serves as bridge for export of trafficked Nicaraguan birds

Carlos Chávez 16 Nov 2015

Featured video: mangroves in El Salvador imperiled by climate change

Jeremy Hance 17 Jul 2013

El Salvador mulls total ban on mining

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 22 Oct 2012

Dry forests disappearing faster than rainforests in Latin America

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2012

Earth systems disruption: Does 2011 indicate the “new normal” of climate chaos and conflict?

Ryan King 21 Dec 2011

Climate change already worsening weird, deadly, and expensive weather

Jeremy Hance 2 Nov 2011

Good stewards of forests at home outsource deforestation abroad

Jeremy Hance 24 Nov 2010

Assessing Tropical Butterfly Communities When Time Is Short

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2009

Can remittances and globalization help the environment?

Rhett A. Butler 5 Sep 2007

Forest fires burn in Central America

Rhett A. Butler 10 Apr 2006

Red Tide Causes Sea Turtle Die-Off in El Salvador

Wildlife Conservation Society 23 Mar 2006

Poor aid response to storm damage in Central America

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2005

El Salvador’s tropical storm damage worsened by deforestation

Rhett A. Butler 4 Oct 2005

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