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Farming in Myanmar

Will the Mekong and Salween pay the price of China’s energy transition?

Carolyn Cowan 22 May 2024
Xayaburi Dam

Banks backing Mekong hydropower failing on due diligence, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 20 May 2024
Catherine Toro

Tackling climate change in one of Colombia’s largest wetlands

César Giraldo 15 May 2024
shrimp farm

Venezuela’s shrimp farms push for sustainability against hardship and oil spills

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres, María Fernanda Rodríguez 15 May 2024
A fishing cat caught on camera wandering through a shrimp farm in Thailand, where wildcats can run into conflict with local communities.

Saving Asia’s fishing cat means protecting threatened wetland habitat

Sean Mowbray 9 May 2024

Indigenous efforts to save Peru’s Marañon River could spell trouble for big oil

Carla Ruas 17 Apr 2024

One of Colombia’s largest estuary ecosystems is drying up, communities warn

Austin Landis 10 Apr 2024

Indonesian court jails environmentalist for flagging illegal farms in marine park

Basten Gokkon 4 Apr 2024

Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2024
Irrawaddy dolphins come up for air

Irrawaddy dolphin death in Thailand’s Songkhla Lake underscores conservation needs

Carolyn Cowan 19 Mar 2024

Rising temperatures threaten the tiny animals responsible for groundwater quality

Bernardo Araujo 18 Mar 2024
A fisher casts a net in Laguna, Brazil.

Fishers’ memories on par with scientific data on historic catches: Study

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Mar 2024
A harvester navigating the wild rice beds on the canoe.

Culture and conservation thrive as Great Lakes tribes bring back native wild rice

Spoorthy Raman 4 Mar 2024
Nubian flapshell turtle (Cyclanorbis elegans) in its preferred riverbank habitat. Image courtesy of ONG OeBenin via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-NC).

Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back a turtle

David Njagi 28 Feb 2024
Mekong River

Hydropower in doubt as climate impacts Mekong Basin water availability

Carolyn Cowan 21 Feb 2024
A man with a child.

Andes community-led conservation curbs more páramo loss than state-protected area: Study

Aimee Gabay 14 Feb 2024
An Indus river dolphin (Platanista minor). This species is found in a small area of the Indus River, near the city of Sukkur in the central province of Sindh, Pakistan. Image courtesy of WWF Pakistan.

Indus River dolphins’ survival is our responsibility (commentary)

Sabir Hussain 13 Feb 2024
Dorado catfish. Image courtesy of Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá via Macaulay Library.

Amazon catfish must be protected by the Convention on Migratory Species COP-14 (commentary)

Mariana Varese 8 Feb 2024
Officers sort waste at a waste processing site in Bogor City, West Java.

Communities on troubled Java river mold future from plastic waste

Donny Iqbal 1 Feb 2024

In Nepal’s Chitwan, tourist pools spell possible trouble for environment & wildlife

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jan 2024

In Mexico, Xalapa’s chronic water scarcity reflects a deepening national crisis

Amigzaday López Beltrán 23 Jan 2024
Yuly Velásquez, an environmental defender from Barrancabermeja.

Courage & calm despite attacks: Q&A with Colombian activist Yuly Velásquez

Aimee Gabay 19 Jan 2024
If necessary, community people buy fish from the market to meet their protein demand, but they do not catch fish from springs.

Indigenous effort in Bangladesh helps reverse endangered fish’s slide to extinction

Rafiqul Islam 19 Jan 2024
Researcher Guilherme Cabral

Why the Amazon’s small streams have a major impact on its grand rivers

Letícia Klein/Ambiental Media 18 Jan 2024
Unregulated gold mining on a river in, Nowshera, Pakistan. Image courtesy of Sabir Hussain.

Illegal gold mining threatens Indus River water and biodiversity in Pakistan (commentary)

Sabir Hussain 9 Jan 2024

As Sri Lanka floods swell with climate change, so does human-crocodile conflict

Malaka Rodrigo 5 Jan 2024
A black bear fishes for salmon.

Salmon and other migratory fish play crucial role in delivering nutrients

Ruth Kamnitzer 3 Jan 2024

Study: Fishing with pesticides and dynamite puts Ecuadorian Amazon in peril

Mark Hillsdon 2 Jan 2024
A mugger crocodile in India.

Could mugger crocodiles be brought back from regional extinction in Bangladesh?

Rafiqul Islam 27 Dec 2023

With half its surface water area lost, an Amazonian state runs dry

Amanda Magnani 26 Dec 2023
A summer tanager (Piranga rubra).

Cocopah Tribe aims to restore Colorado River habitat — and tribal culture

Evan Bourtis 22 Dec 2023
Thailand flood, 2011

Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change

Carolyn Cowan 7 Dec 2023

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