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Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018
A child receives clean drinking water from a rain catchment tank in Aboquehuira, a village of the Siona indigenous people whose traditional water source is contaminated. Image by Dan Collyns for Mongabay.

With no oil cleanup in sight, Amazon tribes harvest rain for clean water

Dan Collyns 27 Dec 2018

Environment and rights founder in the wake of Chinese funding in Bolivia

Yvette Sierra Praeli 27 Dec 2018
The Mozambique Channel off the west coast of Madagascar. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Madagascar auctioning a large swath of virgin waters for oil exploration

Edward Carver 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Fossil Fuel Inc.’s outsize presence at talks reflects its influence

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Dec 2018

Brazilian regulators deny French oil giant Total license to drill near Amazon Reef

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2018

COP24: Europe looks to fill the leadership void left by the U.S.

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2018
Members of the Tosepan cooperative’s youth solar panel installation team and the ONergia solar cooperative put the finishing touches on a domestic panel installation while community members chip in. Image by Ethan Bien for Mongabay.

‘Light for everyone’: Indigenous youth mount a solar-powered resistance

Ethan Bien 10 Dec 2018

COP24: Coal casts a shadow over U.N. climate talks in Poland

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Dec 2018

Trump Admin moves closer to authorizing oil and gas exploration off the Atlantic coast

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2018

Bill McKibben on the climate movements that give him hope

Mike Gaworecki 27 Nov 2018

Women in small-island states exposed to high levels of mercury: study

Basten Gokkon 27 Nov 2018
A sign near Buru Energy’s Yulleroo fracking site. Image by Alexander Hayes via Flickr (CC BY 4.0).

Fracking threatens Aboriginal land rights in Western Australia

Grace Dungey, Nick Rodway 21 Nov 2018
Coal protest in Indonesia

Activists urge end to South Korean funding of Indonesia coal plants

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2018

Whales and dolphins change the way they communicate in a noisy ocean

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018

How the social sciences can help conservationists save species

Mike Gaworecki 18 Sep 2018

California targets fossil fuel-free electricity by 2045

Mongabay.com 13 Sep 2018

Runners’ woes at Asian Games highlight Jakarta’s air pollution problem

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2018
A secret oil access road built within Block 31 of Yasuni National Park, one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. Photo © Ivan Kashinsky.

Climate leadership means keeping fossil fuels in the ground in tropical forests and beyond (commentary)

Leila Salazar-López 7 Sep 2018

Latam Eco Review: Industrial fishing in the Galapagos, fracking Colombian cloud forests, whale sharks in Peru

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2018

Deal in sight for PNG landowners protesting Exxon-led gas project

Lucy EJ Woods 31 Aug 2018

Graft and government policy align to keep Indonesia burning coal

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Aug 2018

Bornean villagers who fought off a mine prepare to do battle again

Yovanda 14 Aug 2018

Latam Eco Review: Turtles at risk, jungle fracking, and a mafia land grab

Mongabay.com 10 Aug 2018

In Ecuador, a pipeline cuts a trail of misery through indigenous land

José María León Cabrera 9 Aug 2018

On an island in the sun, coal power is king over abundant solar

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2018

Indonesia demands cleanup after coal spill pollutes beach

Junaidi Hanafiah 6 Aug 2018

Nitrogen pollution is choking forests’ carbon-protecting fungi

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Aug 2018

Shadow companies and the Indonesian land crisis

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jul 2018

DRC set to reclassify national parks for oil, open rainforest to logging

John Vidal 19 Jul 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Basten Gokkon 17 Jul 2018

Extractive industries threaten a million square kilometers of intact tropical forests around the globe

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2018

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