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With its $3.85b mine takeover, Indonesia inherits a $13b pollution problem

Basten Gokkon 14 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018
Marine life in Papua New Guinea. Image by martinnemo via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

After the loss of a ship, deep sea mining plans for PNG founder

David Hutt 26 Dec 2018

Copper mine destroying forests in Panama’s Mesoamerican Biological Corridor

José Arcia 24 Dec 2018

Illegal mining in the Amazon ‘not comparable to any other period of its history’

Kimberley Brown 20 Dec 2018

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

Basten Gokkon 27 Nov 2018

Novel research method reveals small-scale gold mining’s impact on Peruvian Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 9 Nov 2018
Planet satellite image of the open pit copper-gold mine on Sumbawa.

Indonesian province calls time-out on mining

Ebed de Rosary 19 Sep 2018

Gold mining suspected as cause of Cambodian mass poisonings

Rod Harbinson 17 Aug 2018

Smartphone app helps indigenous communities fight deforestation

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2018
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar: Yet another anti-trafficking activist convicted

Edward Carver 19 Jun 2018

In a land hit by the resource curse, a new gold mine spooks officials

Basten Gokkon 17 Jun 2018

Waste management rules threaten to derail Indonesia mine takeover

Basten Gokkon 6 Jun 2018
Banner image: A blue coua (Coua caerulea) in Ranomafana National Park, about 30 miles west of Vohilava. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar court upholds sentence for environmental activist

Edward Carver 31 May 2018

Four regions in Peru exposed to mercury contamination

Yvette Sierra Praeli 8 May 2018

Venezuelan gold strike prompts invasion by 3,000 miners, military raid

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 25 Apr 2018

Meet the winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018

Philippines’ Duterte suggests open-pit mining ban will stay in place

Mongabay.com 11 Apr 2018

Ire and ore: Demands grow for clarity around Cambodian gold mine

Rod Harbinson 3 Apr 2018

The wind of change blowing through Ghana’s villages (commentary)

Mark Olden 23 Mar 2018

Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon dropped 13 percent in 2017

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Feb 2018

Pope set to visit site of deforestation, indigenous struggle in Peru

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2018

Company to probe for minerals close to Mekong River dolphin habitat

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2018

Venezuela’s Mining Arc boom sweeps up Indigenous people and cultures

Bram Ebus 15 Jan 2018

Peru declares a huge new national park in the Amazon

Yvette Sierra Praeli 12 Jan 2018

Mine tailings dam failures major cause of environmental disasters: report

Zoe Sullivan 19 Dec 2017

Top Argentine glacier scientist charged over cyanide mine spill

Max Nathanson 14 Dec 2017

Militarization and mining a dangerous mix in Venezuelan Amazon

Bram Ebus 7 Dec 2017

Brilliant blue tarantula among potentially new species discovered in Guyana

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2017

Water sources under threat from mining in Ecuador’s mountains

Marlon Puertas 22 Nov 2017
A white spotted reed frog (Heterixalus alboguttatus) in Ranomafana National Park, about 30 miles west of Vohilava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar environmental activist convicted, sentenced — and paroled

Edward Carver 2 Nov 2017

Another Madagascar environmental activist imprisoned

Edward Carver 20 Oct 2017

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