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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

Indigenous communities are forced to clean up a 3,000-barrel oil spill in Peru’s Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 26 Feb 2016

Oil exploration in Bolivia’s Amazon region goes on overdrive

Ruxandra Guidi 25 Feb 2016

Naomi Oreskes on climate change: “We’ve blown it… but pessimism is not acceptable”

Justin Catanoso 24 Feb 2016

Peace agreements often ignore natural resources, report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Feb 2016

Bangladesh sticks with coal power plant project despite major backlash

Apoorva Joshi 16 Feb 2016

Geospatial data for the people, by the people

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 6 Feb 2016

Oil extraction threatens to expand further into Ecuadorean rainforest under new 20-year contract

Isabel Riofrio 3 Feb 2016

The week in environmental news – Jan 22, 2016

Brittany Stewart 22 Jan 2016

China to shut down 4,300 old coal mines, ban new coal mines

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jan 2016

The week in environmental news – Jan 15, 2016

Brittany Stewart 15 Jan 2016

California declares state of emergency after methane gas leak forces thousands from their homes

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2016
Chevron's Duri oil field in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

How does the global commodity collapse impact forest conservation?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Dec 2015

Belize bans offshore oil drilling along barrier reef system

Sandra Cuffe 18 Dec 2015

Ecuador condemned at the new Tribunal for the Rights of Nature in Paris

Karen Hoffmann 10 Dec 2015

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