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Plastic washed up on a beach in Barcelona.

As UN plastic treaty talks face possible deadlock, what are the ways forward?

Tosca Ballerini 31 Jul 2025
Joseph Vargas and Wilma Abanil in their home

As gas giants move in, Philippine fishers fight for their seas and survival

Nick Aspinwall 29 Jul 2025

Coral restoration after devasting Deepwater Horizon spill shows promise

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2025

Batang coal plant’s seawater permit imperils marine life, fishing communities

Basten Gokkon 26 Jul 2025
Lena Estrada, Colombia's minister of environment. Image by Eduardo Santamaría.

Oil ‘does not guarantee stability’: Colombia’s environment minister on energy transition

Latoya Abulu 24 Jul 2025
Ana Toni, CEO of COP30, photographed in June. Image courtesy of Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil.

As Brazil expands oil, COP30 head urges rich nations to phase out fossil fuels first

Karla Mendes, Shanna Hanbury 16 Jul 2025
A member of the U’wa Indigenous group in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

U’wa people await implementation of landmark court ruling against Colombian gov’t

Antonio José Paz Cardona 11 Jul 2025
Rukka shows the location of a former coal mine pit that flows into the Nangka River, which is now polluted.

Indonesian civil society urges probe after payout for mine recovery that never happened

Muhibar Sobary Ardan 10 Jul 2025
Banner image of a flare stack by Yerevan Malarerva via Pexels.

UN rapporteur calls for ban on fossil fuel ads and criminalizing of disinformation

Kristine Sabillo 7 Jul 2025

Meat giant profits from carbon market without halting deforestation

Bruna Bronoski, from O Joio e O Trigo 4 Jul 2025
An alert sign: a stranded marine specimen documented by IEPA scientists along the Amapá coast. The case is part of ongoing efforts to monitor aquatic fauna.

Seismic noise from oil companies threatens Amazon River Mouth marine life

Rudja Santos 4 Jul 2025
Smokestacks image by Pixabay via Pexels (Public domain).

Catholic bishops from Global South call for ambitious climate action ahead of COP30

Kristine Sabillo 2 Jul 2025

Indigenous communities left in the dark on carbon scheme on their land

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jul 2025
researcher glacier

Communities and ecosystems in Venezuela learn to adapt to life after glaciers

María Fernanda Rodríguez, Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 30 Jun 2025
An oil pipeline through Wampis territory in the Amazonas department. Image by Jacob Balzani.

Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds

John Cannon 30 Jun 2025

In Ecuador’s Amazon, Big Oil exploits Indigenous communities in the absence of the state

Emilia Paz, Miño, Isabela Ponce 26 Jun 2025
The Miami Bull, a robot-like statue of a bull, is meant to emulate Wall Street’s “Charging Bull,” and was unveiled to kick off the Bitcoin 2022 conference.

Bitcoin boom comes with huge intensifying environmental footprint

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 25 Jun 2025
Perenco’s offshore platform in Gabon.

Report exposes safety complaints preceding fatal Perenco explosion in Gabon

Elodie Toto 19 Jun 2025

Brazil auctions off several Amazon oil sites despite environmentalists and Indigenous protests

Associated Press 18 Jun 2025
Pelicans have rebounded on the restored Queen Bess Island off the coast of Louisiana. Photo courtesy of Alisha Renfro

Pelicans recover, but dolphins and other species struggle 15 years after BP oil spill

Mongabay.com 18 Jun 2025
Coal mine on a barge in Indonesia.

Indonesian utility PLN ‘kneecaps renewables’ with embrace of fossil fuels

Jeff Hutton 17 Jun 2025
Banner image of a glacier in Greenland from NASA Earth Observatory via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain).

Record-breaking heat wave due to climate change hits Iceland & Greenland: Scientists

Kristine Sabillo 11 Jun 2025
Oil in Amazon

Unnoticed oil & gas threat looms for Indigenous people near Amazon blocks

Fernanda Wenzel 6 Jun 2025
Exploratory oil drilling in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Colin Dunlop.

Why Brazil should abandon its plans for oil and gas in Amazonia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 5 Jun 2025
Marwati prepares a flashlight that is the main source of light in her house.

Indonesia new capital yet to spark electricity for low-income neighbors on Borneo

Niken D. Sitoningrum 5 Jun 2025
Representatives from several associations submit an open letter to the UNFCCC, stating that climate finance must adhere to the principle of historical responsibility for the climate change by wealthy industrialized countries by repaying the 'ecological debt' to developing countries in the Global South.

Carbon capture projects promise a climate fix — and a fossil fuel lifeline

Nithin Coca 4 Jun 2025
Banner image of tiang in South Sudan ©Marcus Westberg/African Parks.

New maps reveal Earth’s largest land mammal migration

Kristine Sabillo 3 Jun 2025

US pioneers restoration of deep water corals damaged by country’s worst oil spill

Liz Kimbrough 30 May 2025
Cape Orange National Park on the Amazonian coast of the state of Amapá. Offshore oil block 59 is located 160 kilometers (99 miles) away. Image © Victor Moriyama/Greenpeace.

Brazil advances with plan to drill oil at the mouth of the Amazon River

Shanna Hanbury 26 May 2025
Banner image: Photos of human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, who disappeared last year in Mexico. Photo by Luis Rojas via Global Witness.

Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks: Report

Kristine Sabillo 23 May 2025
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

As Indonesia phases out coal, what happens to people & environments left behind?

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 May 2025
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Banten Province, Indonesia.

Flawed energy road map may block Indonesia’s coal exit, critics warn

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 May 2025

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