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Flowers in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo by Jeremy Hance

Ecuador begins pumping oil from famed ITT-block in Yasuní

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2016

Negotiations and protests ongoing in wake of oil spills in Peruvian Amazon

Barbara Fraser 5 Sep 2016

Oil pipeline sparks fierce opposition among American tribes and farmers

Saul Elbein 29 Aug 2016
Part of the Green Fuel ethanol plant in Chisumbanje, Zimbabwe. Photo by Kenneth Matimaire.

Amid epic drought, villagers bitter over Zimbabwean ethanol plant

Andrew Mambondiyani 28 Jul 2016

China’s coal use has peaked ‘sooner than expected’

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Jul 2016
Levita holds a layer of dried crude oil from her farmland along the Marañon River. Photo by Brett Monroe Garner.

Health concerns, food insecurity linger months after Peruvian oil spills

Kevin Floerke, Rebecca Wolff 25 Jul 2016

Anti-coal activist murdered in the Philippines

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Jul 2016
Andy Muñoz of the Marañón Defense Front watches crude drip from a stick he dipped into the stream. Photo by Barbara Fraser.

Communities brace for impact of Peruvian oil spill

Barbara Fraser 29 Jun 2016
Google Map showing location of Barranca, Peru.

Health officials in Peru: oil spill cleanup workers face ‘poisoning and burns’

Barbara Fraser 27 Jun 2016
Workers scoop oil out a stream near Chiriaco, in northern Peru, where crude spilled from a pipeline in late January. Photo by Barbara Fraser.

Amazon oil spill puts Peruvian communities at risk

Barbara Fraser, Milton López Tarabochia 26 Jun 2016

US oil and gas production ‘dramatically’ increasing harmful ozone-causing ethane

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Jun 2016

Peruvian presidential candidates spur concerns among environmentalists

Milton López Tarabochia 3 Jun 2016

Climate negotiators focus on carbon credits, underplay human rights

Justin Catanoso 23 May 2016

Indonesia’s forestry ministry follows through on palm oil permit freeze

Mongabay.com 23 May 2016

Shell spills 88,200 gallons of oil into Gulf of Mexico

Shreya Dasgupta 20 May 2016

Company responsible for last year’s oil spill near Santa Barbara, California hit with criminal charges

Mike Gaworecki 17 May 2016

There are only three Saharan addax antelope left in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 6 May 2016

Lake Maracaibo: an oil development sacrifice zone dying from neglect

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 3 May 2016

Mexican conservation success threatened by wave of mining concessions

Martha Pskowski 29 Apr 2016

Scientists just discovered an Amazon reef system in an area targeted for oil exploration

Mike Gaworecki 22 Apr 2016

‘Five years, that’s all we’ve got’: a prognosis of the Paris Agreement (Commentary)

Anukriti Hittle, Alexander Hittle 19 Apr 2016

Hundreds of baby dolphin deaths linked to BP oil spill

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Apr 2016

Big Oil has been covering up climate risks even longer than we thought

Mike Gaworecki 14 Apr 2016

Half of World Heritage Sites threatened by ‘harmful industrial activities’, new report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Apr 2016

Breakthrough: Indonesia’s highest court orders release of mining data

Yustinus S. Hardjanto 30 Mar 2016

Another catastrophe: Ship carrying 1,235 metric tons of coal sinks in Sundarbans

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Mar 2016

Global carbon dioxide emissions stay flat for second year in a row

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Mar 2016

Obama administration will not allow oil drilling off Atlantic coast

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Mar 2016

Indigenous rights win big against mining in Suriname

Ruxandra Guidi 10 Mar 2016

An indigenous community takes hostages in an effort to draw attention to oil spill in Peru’s Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 8 Mar 2016

A month since the oil spill, Wampis indigenous peoples criticize PetroPeru’s negligence

Ruxandra Guidi 4 Mar 2016

Indonesia’s antigraft agency strives to rein in the mining sector

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 27 Feb 2016

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