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Adélard Makonga at the Gécamines mining site.

Mine in ‘world cobalt capital’ displaces locals and monks under questionable circumstances

Didier Makal, Eric Cibamba 23 Oct 2023
Nnimmo Bassey and the team at the spill site at Eteo community in Ogoni, Rivers State.

Stop playing politics with climate change: Q&A with Nigeria’s Nnimmo Bassey

Abdulkareem Mojeed 17 Oct 2023
Rainbow over rainforest in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia opens carbon trading market to both skepticism and hope

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Oct 2023
Ruddy ducks in East Rapti River next to the protected Chitwan National Park.

Conservationists condemn Nepal proposal to allow hydropower in protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Oct 2023
Smoke from a factory chimney.

How nonprofit journalism revealed many problems with the UN’s climate neutrality claims

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Oct 2023
Aerial view of the FSO Safer with the Yemen and Ndeavor moored alongside, preparing to transfer the oil. Image courtesy of Boskalis.

How the United Nations, kids and corporations saved the Red Sea from an oil disaster

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Oct 2023
Trees illegally cut down for firewood in the Zamay forest reserve by Nigerian refugees.

Cut down once again: Uncontrolled logging puts new Sahel reforestation projects at risk

Yannick Kenné | Sabré Na-Ideyam | Georges Messi 6 Oct 2023
Coal mining

World Bank still backs coal in Asia, despite climate claims, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 5 Oct 2023

Rechargeable battery industry needs better mining regulations, report says

Maxwell Radwin 29 Sep 2023

Peruvian Amazon: Wounds remain after 50 years of oil spills on Achuar land

Gloria Alvitres 26 Sep 2023

Delay of Indonesia’s energy transition plan a chance to get public input

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Sep 2023

How Canada’s growing presence in Latin America is hurting the environment

Maxwell Radwin 22 Sep 2023
Fany Kuiru (right) with other Indigenous leaders at the March to End Fossil Fuels event in New York City on September 17, 2023. Image courtesy of the Confederation of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA).

Amazonian Indigenous leaders call for 80×2025 at Climate Week (commentary)

Fany Kuiru 19 Sep 2023
Tailors are seen working on a production line in a local garment factory in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh apparel industry makes progress in ‘eco-friendly’ manufacturing

Ibrahim Hossain Ovi 19 Sep 2023

In the Amazon, global competition drives bulk transport systems

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Sep 2023

Hundreds of oil spill sites threaten Amazon Indigenous lands, protected areas

Cristina Fernández Aguilar 12 Sep 2023

The future of hydropower in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Sep 2023
Aerial view of a road.

Study: Tricky balancing act between EV scale-up and mining battery metals

Liz Kimbrough 8 Sep 2023

Experts see red over Indonesia’s planned green investment label for coal plants

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Sep 2023

Pacific alliance adopts moratorium on deep-sea mining, halting resurgent PNG project

John Cannon 6 Sep 2023
Coal protest in Indonesia

Indonesian voters want a clean energy plan, but candidates haven’t delivered

Basten Gokkon 6 Sep 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: A look at the private energy sector in Peru

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Sep 2023
José Martins and another fisher.

In Brazil, rural communities are caught in the eye of the wind farm storm

Giovanna Carneiro, Arnaldo Sete, Marco Zero 4 Sep 2023

In Panama, an Indigenous kingdom fights for its right to the forest

Maxwell Radwin 4 Sep 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Bolivia seeks an energy export model

Timothy J. Killeen 30 Aug 2023

Captive coal-fired power plants hinder Indonesia energy transition deal

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Río Trombetas and Calha Norte

Timothy J. Killeen 29 Aug 2023
Activist Duduzile Dludla of Makhasaneni, standing in front of her home and an umbombe or forest strangler-fig (Ficus natalensis)

South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans

Dimitri Selibas 28 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: The Tapajós Basin and the prevalence of Indigenous rights

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Aug 2023

Oil and gas exploration threatens Bolivian Chaco water supply

Iván Paredes Tamayo, Nelfi Fernández Reyes 24 Aug 2023

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

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Aug 2023

Activists slam coal pollution from Indonesia’s production of ‘clean’ batteries

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Aug 2023

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