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Labor abuse widespread in Indonesia’s palm oil industry, finds investigation

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2013

Billions lost to corruption in Indonesia’s forest sector, says report

Diana Parker 17 Jul 2013

Influential British editor banned from Sarawak

Jeremy Hance 3 Jul 2013

Indonesia denies it has any indigenous peoples

Frances Yan-man-shing 13 Jun 2013

Local economy ruined by pesticide pollution in the Caribbean

Martine Valo 29 May 2013

Over 500 scientists warn we ‘are causing alarming levels of harm to our planet’

Jeremy Hance 27 May 2013

Indonesia’s largest coal plant will be built despite protests, minister says

Diana Parker 26 May 2013

Indigenous groups protest hydropower congress as controversy hits meeting in Malaysia

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2013

Featured documentary: Damocracy, highlighting the battles over the Belo Monte and Ilisu dams

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

Up for grabs: how foreign investments are redistributing land and water across the globe

Erica Santana 18 Apr 2013

Judge halts military-backed dam assessment in Brazil’s Amazon

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2013

Indigenous group: Brazil using military to force Amazon dams

Jonathan Watts 8 Apr 2013

After decades of turning a blind eye, Peru declares state of emergency due to oil contamination in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2013

Indigenous protester killed by masked assailants in Panama over UN-condemned dam

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 25 Mar 2013

Controversial palm oil project concession in Cameroon is 89 percent ‘dense natural forest’

Jeremy Hance 21 Feb 2013

Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in ‘financial damage’ and human rights violations

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2013

The beginning of the end of deforestation in Indonesia?

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Feb 2013

Mystery surrounds disappearance of prominent environmental activist in Laos

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2012

Uncontacted tribes still exist, but extinction threat looms

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2012

El Salvador mulls total ban on mining

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 22 Oct 2012

Human rights key to rainforest conservation, argues report

Mongabay.com 6 Sep 2012

Human rights court favors indigenous tribe over Ecuadorian government in oil battle

Jeremy Hance 31 Jul 2012

Over 700 people killed defending forest and land rights in past ten years

Jeremy Hance 19 Jun 2012

Scientists: if we don’t act now we’re screwed

Jeremy Hance 7 Jun 2012

Indigenous rights rising in tropical forests, but big gaps remain

Jeremy Hance 31 May 2012

Broadcaster for Radio Free Sarawak goes missing in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 31 May 2012

Indigenous group paid $0.65/ha for forest worth $5,000/ha in Indonesia

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2012

U.S. car manufacturers linked to Amazon destruction, slave labor

Jeremy Hance 14 May 2012

Cambodia suspends economic land concessions

Jeremy Hance 7 May 2012

Oil company Perenco endangering ‘uncontacted’ indigenous people, says Peru

David Hill 25 Apr 2012

Doing good and staying sane amidst the global environmental crisis

Ryan King 23 Apr 2012

For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how to make a better world

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2012

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