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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

For Caatinga’s last jaguars and pumas, wind farms are the newest threat

Suzana Camargo 22 Aug 2023
Squirrel monkeys are one of many creatures of Yasuni National Park. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Ecuador referendum halts oil extraction in Yasuní National Park

Maxwell Radwin 21 Aug 2023
An oil-contaminated jagüeye in the El Jordán property.

Energy company evades oil clean up as spills continue to contaminate Colombian town

Catalina Sanabria Devia 17 Aug 2023

Offshore drilling faces backlash in Argentina after skirting environmental regulations

Maxwell Radwin 17 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: The Madeira Hydropower Complex

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Aug 2023

Jakarta snags ‘most polluted’ title as air quality plunges and officials dither

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Tucuruí and the Tocantins Cascade

Timothy J. Killeen 16 Aug 2023
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

Have coal, will use it: Indonesia’s climate stance raises questions

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Aug 2023

Can land titles save Madagascar’s embattled biodiversity and people?

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Aug 2023

Fair winds or fowl: Clean energy clashes with conservation in Brazil’s Caatinga

Suzana Camargo 14 Aug 2023
A channel-billed toucan in Yasuní National Park.

Can upcoming referendum in Ecuador stop oil drilling in Yasuní National Park?

Kimberley Brown 11 Aug 2023
A coral reef and fish in the mouth of the Amazon River.

Amazon Summit nations agree on saving rainforest — but not on conservation goals

Sarah Brown 11 Aug 2023

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

Timothy J. Killeen 11 Aug 2023

The oil debt: More than 6,000 polluted sites fester across Amazonian countries

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo, Yvette Sierra Praeli 11 Aug 2023
Traffic on road.

EVs offer climate hope, but total auto supply chain revamp is vital

Sean Mowbray 10 Aug 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron

Macron touts forest conservation while promoting gas project on PNG visit

Rachel Donald 10 Aug 2023

Captive to coal: Indonesia to burn even more fossil fuel for green tech

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Aug 2023
Aerial view of traffic.

Internal combustion vs. EVs: Learning from the past to boost sustainability

Sean Mowbray 9 Aug 2023

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

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Aug 2023
A Brazil nut.

Mongabay’s What-to-Watch list for August 2023

Mongabay.com 7 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, Christian Poirier 2 Aug 2023

The endless struggle to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s highly polluted Guanabara Bay

Andrew Johnson 1 Aug 2023
A woman in a yellow top and bright multicoloured wrapper, smiling as she walks across sandy verge of a paved road to where blue and white bags of dark black charcoal have been set on the ground near Praça das Mangueiras, in southwestern Angola. In the background, more charcoal in tall white sacks. Image by Carsten Ten Brink via Flickr (BY NC-ND 2.0)

Forests & finance: Fears for forests in Angola, flashes of hope from Kenya & Ghana

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2023

World’s top sovereign fund latest to cut ties with dam in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jul 2023
In Bangladesh, around 4.2 million people work in the garment industry.

Bangladesh ramps up use of recycled fabrics in ready-made garments

Abu Siddique 28 Jul 2023
The dumbo octopus is a species only found in the deep sea. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration.

Scores of parliamentarians renew opposition to deep-sea mining at international meeting (commentary)

Caroline Roose, Marie Toussaint 25 Jul 2023

On Indonesia’s Seram Island, a massive oil find lies beneath sacred land

Christ Belseran, Martha Dianti 25 Jul 2023
Freshwater ecologist Kurt Pinter holds a fish collected during the 2023 biological survey of the Neretva River, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photo by Monica Pelliccia for Mongabay.

How biological surveys prevent destructive dams in the Balkans

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2023
Nautilus pompilius shell

Nuclear pioneers press ahead with plans for Indonesia island frontier

Nopri Ismi 24 Jul 2023

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