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Guyana’s future and challenges in oil: Q&A with filmmaker Shane Thomas McMillan

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2020

Peruvian Indigenous groups thwart oil drilling in their territory — for now

John Cannon 30 Oct 2020
The ROV SuBastain with careful guidance by its pilots uses the manipulator arm to collect a geological sample at 500m on Flinders Reef. Photo credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

Philanthropist Wendy Schmidt: ‘Solutions are always local’

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Oct 2020
Tendele mine, Somkhele. Image courtesy Rob Symons.

South African activist killed as contentious coal mine seeks to expand

Fred Kockott, Matthew Hattingh 28 Oct 2020
Redwood forest in Santa Cruz County, California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

American Forests CEO Jad Daley: ‘We are one nation under trees’

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Oct 2020

Indonesian officials linked to mining and ‘dirty energy’ firms benefiting from deregulation law

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Oct 2020

South Korea’s move away from coal leaves a Philippine power plant in limbo

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2020

Brazil’s Amazon dam plans: Ominous warnings of future destruction (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Oct 2020
Satellite image of a portion of Everglades National Park in Florida. Courtesy of Zoom.Earth

Data drives Bloomberg’s support for climate solutions, says Antha N. Williams

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Oct 2020

More than 470 oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon since 2000: Report

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Oct 2020

Indian embassy in Madagascar becomes first to go fully solar

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2020

Top award for Indigenous alliance is most recent in a series of wins for the Amazon

Sarah Sax 2 Oct 2020
Mycena haematopus (Burgundydrop Bonnet)

World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2020

Can the planet support a clean energy transition?

Mike Gaworecki 30 Sep 2020

TIME’s list of 100 most influential people in 2020 includes Indigenous Waorani leader

Kimberley Brown 24 Sep 2020

Philippine community goes to court to stop coal plant in ecological haven

Leilani Chavez 24 Sep 2020
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Bailique: Why these islands in the Amazon Delta are falling into pieces

Luís Patriani, Images by Mauricio de Paiva 24 Sep 2020

Two deaths, zero accountability: Indonesia’s mining pits claim more lives

Hans Nicholas Jong, Yovanda 21 Sep 2020

In Peru, self-reporting of oil spills by companies leaves an unknown toll

Karen de la Torre 18 Sep 2020

Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauritius, Panama regulator says

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2020
Boy with a 'dorado' catfish. Photo by Michael Goulding.

Why the health of the Amazon River matters to us all: An interview with Michael Goulding

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2020

Mercury from gold mining contaminates Amazon communities’ staple fish

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Sep 2020

Madagascar introduces stoves that burn rice husks instead of forests

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 2 Sep 2020

Mauritians take to the street over oil spill and dolphin and whale deaths

Malavika Vyawahare 1 Sep 2020

Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges

Justin Catanoso 31 Aug 2020

Lockdown should have cleared up Jakarta’s air. Coal plants kept it dirty

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2020

Mauritius’s plan to dump part of wrecked ship sparks controversy

Malavika Vyawahare 21 Aug 2020
Aerial view of a mine in Australia. Image by Stuart Rankin/Flickr.

With its mining boom past, Australia deals with the job of cleaning up

Manuela Callari 20 Aug 2020

Indonesia dam builder refuses new study to assess impact on orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Aug 2020

Peru gov’t needs to act on COVID-19 in Amazon Indigenous cases, NGOs say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Aug 2020
Oil waste pit fire in Shushufindi in 1993 at a facility built by Texaco. Photo by Lou Dematteis

Don’t let Big Oil open a new front in its war on environmental defenders (commentary)

Steven Donziger 11 Aug 2020

Deforestation in the Amazon is drying up the rest of Brazil: Report

Sibélia Zanon 7 Aug 2020

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