Environmental law News

RSS
2662 stories

Ecuador must improve conditions for uncontacted Indigenous communities, human rights court rules

Maxwell Radwin 20 Mar 2025
Pataxó and Tupinambá people rally against the time frame (marco temporal) law on March 13, 2025, in front of the Brazilian Supreme Court in Brasília. Image courtesy of CIMI.

‘Unprecedented’ Supreme Court bill threatens Indigenous rights in Brazil

Karla Mendes 19 Mar 2025
Plastic People film poster.

Microplastic within humans now a health crisis: Interview with ‘Plastic People’ filmmakers

Liz Kimbrough 19 Mar 2025
Logging operation for timber Brazilian Amazon.

EUDR compliance costs to be minimal, report finds — but industry disagrees

John Cannon 18 Mar 2025
Amazon people in the BR-163 area, such as Mariana, face challenges from the economic model imposed by agribusiness, logging and gold mining. Image by Fernando Martinho.

The rough road to sustainable farming in an Amazon deforestation hotspot

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Mar 2025
Aerial photograph of land being cleared for a nickel mine in North Morowali.

Indonesian watchdog demands prosecution for environmental crime ‘cartels’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2025
More than 200 people were killed in Valencia by the 2024 flood. The army joined rescue efforts in the worst flash floods ever to hit Spain, leaving victims in the ravaged region begging for aid.

A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods?

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 12 Mar 2025
Two Munduruku boys walk along a river in the Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land. Image by Anderson Barbosa / Greenpeace.

Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku Indigenous land sees success, but fears remain

Aimee Gabay 12 Mar 2025
Locals look at a herd of elephants passing close to their village in northeastern Bangladesh.

Asian elephants fall victim to poor development policies in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 12 Mar 2025
More than half of the population of the Malalo Tigo Jurai Indigenous community depends on Lake Singkarak for livelihood.

Tragedy haunts community on shore of Sumatra’s largest solar farm

Jaka Hendra Baittri 12 Mar 2025
A collared wolf from the Druid pack

How one woman’s wolf ‘moon shot’ changed Yellowstone forever: Interview with director Tom Winston

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2025
Mothers and children wait in Changanine community (Chibuto District), Mozambique to collect their seeds from the Red Cross. The community has been hit very hard by the current drought, many have lost their crops and locals have to walk up to five kilometres to dig for water. Image by Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville / IFRC via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Breast milk contamination exposes Africa’s ‘forever chemicals’ problem

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Mar 2025
Construction on the Airport of the Pacific. Photo courtesy of Casa Presidencial/X.

Mangroves at risk as El Salvador begins work on new airport

Maxwell Radwin 6 Mar 2025
Logging operation in the Amazonian state of Rondônia.

Clash of worlds for the Amazon’s Cinta Larga: Interview with author Alex Cuadros

Sam Cowie 5 Mar 2025
COP16 President Susana Muhamad.

COP16 biodiversity summit in Rome OKs finance pathway; big obstacles loom

Justin Catanoso 5 Mar 2025

Illegal sea fence displaces fishers and sparks land scandal near Jakarta

Irfan Maulana, M Ambari 3 Mar 2025

UN accuses Indonesia’s No. 2 palm oil firm of rights & environmental abuses

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Mar 2025

New Zealand blocks tighter trawling rules at South Pacific fisheries meeting

Edward Carver 28 Feb 2025

Land rights bill in Suriname sparks outrage in Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 28 Feb 2025
Equipped with drones and other technologies, young people from the Yanomami Indigenous Land actively monitor their territory, which has faced a serious humanitarian and environmental crisis due to illegal gold and cassiterite mining. Image courtesy of Evilene Paixão/HAY.

Yanomami youth turn to drones to watch their Amazon territory

Elizabeth Oliveira 28 Feb 2025
A sea turtle.

Concerns of illegal sea turtle trade persist in Bali as police foil smugglers

Luh De Suriyani 27 Feb 2025

Colombia’s cattle traceability bill awaits approval as deforestation spikes

Maxwell Radwin 25 Feb 2025
According to a new report by Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW), Cobra Panamá’s tailings dam is at a very serious and imminent risk of failure due to poor monitoring and internal erosion. Image courtesy of the Environmental Advocacy Center (CIAM).

Yet another abandoned mine erodes — this time, in a Panamanian protected area

Aimee Gabay 25 Feb 2025
A 2023 expedition along the Uatumã River documented biodiversity loss linked to the Balbina dam. In 2024, a survey of the undammed Jatapu River revealed a region teeming with life. Image courtesy of the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA).

Endemic fish wiped out in Brazilian Amazon hydroelectric dam area, study finds

Sarah Brown 25 Feb 2025

Baja California tourism poses mounting challenges for conservation, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Feb 2025
Estelle Mariam from Daraina, 27, mother of two, pans soils in the dried up riverbank in Andranotsimaty. Image by Rivonala Razafison/Mongabay.

Chanel wanted ‘responsible’ gold. It turned to a protected area in Madagascar

Malavika Vyawahare, Rivonala Razafison 21 Feb 2025

Illegal seabed dredging surges as Indonesia resumes sand exports

M Ambari, Yogi Eka Sahputra 20 Feb 2025

As the rainforest gets drier, Amazon Indigenous groups thirst for clean water

Kevin Damasio 18 Feb 2025

Conservation groups look for new strategies, tech to halt vaquita decline

Maxwell Radwin 17 Feb 2025

Wave of arrests as Madagascar shuts down tortoise trafficking network

Rivonala Razafison 17 Feb 2025

Deforestation boom in Gran Chaco raises alarm over Argentina’s forest law

Maxwell Radwin 14 Feb 2025
Women set out sprat to dry in the sun in Kigoma, Tanzania, near the shore of Lake Tanganyika.

Small-scale fishers’ role in feeding the planet goes overlooked: Study

Edward Carver 14 Feb 2025

you're currently offline