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Bolivia Indigenous communities, local gov’ts help protect nearly 1 million hectares

Maxwell Radwin 6 Feb 2026
Christine Lain surveys Upemba National Park.

Partnering up to run a DRC reserve: Interview with Forgotten Parks’ Christine Lain

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Feb 2026
Mulkharka residents who oppose the Nagmati Dam project and are campaigning to stop construction.

A dam threatens Nepal’s Indigenous community; they want it on the ballot

Bibek Bhandari 4 Feb 2026
An artisanal miner holds up a fragment of copper-bearing ore at the Lukuzi.

What’s happening with the global treaty to trace critical minerals?

Aimee Gabay 3 Feb 2026

Peru to invest $7.6 billion to continue critical minerals extraction

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jan 2026
Salam came here from North Sulawesi 10 years ago and now has a farm of 1,200 peppercorn trees.

Worries grow for Sulawesi farmers as nickel mining company plans expansion

Richard Kent 29 Jan 2026
Tapir in Brazil. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Brazil sets out its strategy for nature

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jan 2026
Rainim Purba gives a speech and attempts to climb a fence during a protest urging the ministry of environment to revoke PT DPM’s environmental permit in Jakarta, May 2025.

The long struggle of women farmers to halt a zinc mine in North Sumatra

Tonggo Simangunsong 26 Jan 2026

‘Political will is everything’: Interview with Kenyan Environment Minister Deborah Barasa

David Akana 26 Jan 2026

Patagonia fires reignite debate over Argentina’s underfunded environmental agencies

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jan 2026

How US intervention could deepen Venezuela’s environmental crisis

Maxwell Radwin 20 Jan 2026

Colombia poised for another drop in deforestation in 2025, data show

Maxwell Radwin 16 Jan 2026

Flores’ geothermal ambitions collide with justice, culture & local resistance

Basten Gokkon 16 Jan 2026
A mine in Likasi on November 26, 2025. Image by Glody MURHABAZI / AFP).

In the race for DRC’s critical minerals, community forests stand on the frontline

Didier Makal, Latoya Abulu 16 Jan 2026
A man inspects logs near several wood pellet production companies in Gorontalo province, October 2024.

After years of progress, Indonesia risks ‘tragedy’ of a deforestation spike

Jeff Hutton 14 Jan 2026
Deforestation in Mato Grosso state. Image © Paulo Pereira/Greenpeace.

Soy giants drop Amazon no-deforestation pledge as subsidies come under threat

Shanna Hanbury 9 Jan 2026
Rescuers search for victims at the site of a landslide in Suwawa on Sulawesi Island in July 2024.

Indonesia’s illegal gold boom leaves a toxic legacy of mercury pollution

Sarjan Lahay, Junaidi Hanafiah, Teguh Suprayitno 7 Jan 2026
Rogério Barros, young extractive leader and son of Raimundão Barros, at the Chico Mendes extractive reserve

Massive Amazon conservation program pledges to put communities first

Constance Malleret 5 Jan 2026
Guatemala accounted for 13% of the environmental defenders killed or disappeared across the world in 2024, as documented by Global Witness. Image courtesy of the Guatemalan President’s Office.

Guatemala’s eco defenders reel from surge in killings and persecution

Gonzalo Ortuño López 2 Jan 2026
The mining dredges installed along the Nanay River have begun to consume sections of forest. Image courtesy of FCDS Peru.

Mercury, dredges and crime: Illegal mining ravages Peru’s Nanay River

Enrique Vera 31 Dec 2025

Latin America in 2025: Conservation promises collide with crime and extraction

Mie Hoejris Dahl 31 Dec 2025
A woman stands near a shop damaged during a flood in Aceh province, Indonesia, Nov. 29, 2025.

Indonesia closes 2025 with rising disasters and stalled environmental reform

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Dec 2025

Southeast Asia’s 2025 marked by fatal floods, fossil fuel expansion and renewed mining boom

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 29 Dec 2025
Indigenous people attend the People's Summit during the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30). Photo by Rafa Pereira/COP30.

Top 10 Indigenous news stories that marked 2025

Aimee Gabay 29 Dec 2025
A Magar local affected by the Tanahu Hydropower project. Image by Sanjog Laapaa Magar, INWOLAG.

Fights against development projects marks 2025 for Nepal’s Indigenous people

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Dec 2025
Rainforest in Brunei in 2025. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

The year in rainforests 2025: Deforestation fell; the risks did not

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Dec 2025

The rise of CC35 and the business behind its climate deals

Gloria Pallares 22 Dec 2025
A cocoa farmer and member of a local cooperative inspects the state of bean fermentation in Lembe Yezoum, Cameroon.

Researchers find concerning gaps in global maps used for EUDR compliance

John Cannon 19 Dec 2025
: Press conference following the vote to delay the EUDR, again. Image courtesy of Laurie Dieffembacq/European Union.

EU votes to delay EUDR antideforestation law for second year in a row

Shanna Hanbury 19 Dec 2025
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa uses a stick to measure how deep the area is, in the Aguarico 4 oil field where a sign reads in Spanish "Danger. Contaminated area" in Ecuador, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Correa visited the site to call attention to oil contamination in Ecuador's Amazon region. Earlier this year, Ecuador awarded a $19 billion judgment to the residents of this area for Texaco's contamination of this rainforest between 1972 and 1990. But Chevron Corp., which bought Texaco in 2001, said it won't pay because it says Texaco dealt with the problem before it was bought. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

‘Neither appropriate nor fair’: Ecuador ordered to pay oil giant Chevron $220m

Shanna Hanbury 18 Dec 2025
A child touches a freshly caught albacore tuna in Vairao, Tahiti, French Polynesia, in January 2024. Image by AP Photo/Daniel Cole.

Pacific fisheries summit gives a boost to albacore & seabirds

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2025

West and Central Africa tackle coastal erosion

Adrienne Engono, Carolle Ahodekon, Charles Kolou, Christophe Assogba, Roland Klohi, Rosie Pioth 16 Dec 2025

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