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Honduran environmental defenders hit hard by human rights crisis, report says

Maxwell Radwin 28 May 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Mexico’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 27 May 2024

In Amazon’s tri-border Javari region, teens fall prey to drug gangs’ lure

Ivan Brehaut, Rodrigo Pedroso, Victoria Carlos 24 May 2024
A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

Are carbon credits another resource-for-cash grab? Interview with Alondra Cerdes Morales & Samuel Nguiffo

Latoya Abulu, Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 May 2024

Indonesian activist freed in hate speech case after flagging illegal shrimp farms

Basten Gokkon 22 May 2024

‘Right to roam’ movement fights to give the commons back to the public

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 21 May 2024

Guyana road projects spark concerns for future development on wetlands

Maxwell Radwin 21 May 2024

Global markets and their effects on resource exploitation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 May 2024

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2024

Organized crime puts unprecedented pressure on Guatemala’s largest rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 20 May 2024

Amplifying Indigenous voices at the global level: Interview with Dario Mejía Montalvo

Dimitri Selibas 20 May 2024

Bird populations are mysteriously declining at an Amazon park in Ecuador & beyond

Bernardo Araujo 16 May 2024
Oil refinery smokestacks along the Athabasca River, in northern Alberta, Canada.

Canada oil sands air pollution 20-64 times worse than industry says: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 16 May 2024
Armed police and military forces called by a Canadian mining company carry out operations in Sigchos

As miner quells protests in Ecuador, Canadian firms’ rights record faces scrutiny

Aimee Gabay 15 May 2024

NZ funding helps Indigenous farmers in Indonesia protect forests, boost incomes

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 May 2024
A Dayak Pitap woman.

On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 15 May 2024

Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition

Didier Makal 14 May 2024
An Iranian cheetah.

Final cheetah conservationists freed in Iran, but the big cat’s outlook remains grim

Kayleigh Long 13 May 2024
A worker at a rubber plantation at PT Alam Lestari Nusantara. Image by Rubber tapping workers at PL ALN.

Desperation sets in for Indigenous Sumatrans who lost their forests to plantations

Teguh Suprayitno 9 May 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesian company defies order, still clearing peatlands in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 May 2024
Indigenous farmer in Cambodia

Rights groups call for greater public input in ASEAN environmental rights framework

Carolyn Cowan 8 May 2024

Indigenous leader’s killer is convicted in Brazil, but tensions over land remain

Sarah Brown 7 May 2024

Pro-business parties accused of holding back Indonesia’s Indigenous rights bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 May 2024
Indigenous people with sled dogs in Greenland.

Plastic pollution talks end & Arctic peoples return home to a ‘sink’ of plastic

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 7 May 2024

‘Our rights are on trial in Brazil’: Interview with Indigenous movement pioneer Brasílio Priprá

Amanda Magnani 6 May 2024

New ban threatens traditional fishers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state

João Paulo Guimarães 6 May 2024

Indigenous Philippine village rejects gold mine, cites flawed consultation

Michael Beltran 1 May 2024
Segunda Huenchunao of the Vuelta del Río community near El Maitén. Image by Denali DeGraf.

Indigenous communities along Argentina’s Río Chubut mobilize to conserve waterway

Denali DeGraf 30 Apr 2024

Apologies aren’t enough, Indigenous people say of Brazil dictatorship’s crimes

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Apr 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Panama’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 30 Apr 2024

Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive

Maxwell Radwin 29 Apr 2024

Goldman Prize Winner Murrawah Johnson says First Nations must be at the forefront of creating change

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Apr 2024

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