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Brazil on the precipice: from environmental leader to despoiler (2010-2020)

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 23 Dec 2019

Fighting to save an endangered ape, Indonesian activists fear for their lives

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Dec 2019

Indonesian dam raises questions about UN hydropower carbon loophole

Justin Catanoso 12 Dec 2019

It’s time for Climate Bonds Initiative to scrap its hydro certification scheme (commentary)

Josh Klemm 10 Dec 2019

Amazon’s giant South American river turtle holding its own, but risks abound

Jenny Gonzales 6 Dec 2019

Analysis: Floating solar power along the dammed-up Mekong River

David Brown 3 Dec 2019

‘Everything is dying’: Q&A with Brazilian indigenous leader Alessandra Munduruku

Camila Nobrega 27 Nov 2019

‘Weird’ police probe rules Indonesian activist died in drink-driving crash

Ayat S. Karokaro 15 Oct 2019

Suspicions of murder in death of Indonesian environmental activist

Ayat S. Karokaro 9 Oct 2019

Gravely injured orangutan rescued near site of controversial hydropower project

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Sep 2019

New monkey species found in Amazon forest area that’s fast disappearing

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Sep 2019

Indonesian court cancels dam project in last stronghold of tigers, rhinos

Junaidi Hanafiah 2 Sep 2019

India pushes for its largest ever hydropower project despite concerns

Mayank Aggarwal 29 Jul 2019
Villagers from Farihitsara gather near the proposed dam site. Tozzi Green, the Italian company responsible for the hydroelectric project, marked some of the rocks when it did research at the site. Image by Edward Carver for Mongabay.

In Madagascar, villagers oppose plans for a dam that would inundate their land

Edward Carver 18 Jul 2019

Zambia halts plans to dam the Luangwa River

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2019

Rivers are the world’s heritage. Time to treat them as such (commentary)

Josh Klemm 1 Jul 2019

Amazon infrastructure puts 68% of indigenous lands / protected areas at risk: report

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jun 2019

From flaming to free-flowing: The full lesson of the recovery of the Cuyahoga River (commentary)

Jeff Opperman 21 Jun 2019

No need to dam free-flowing rivers to meet world’s climate and energy targets

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2019

Former Brazilian enviro ministers blast Bolsonaro environmental assaults

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 23 May 2019

Documentary on world’s rarest ape generates film festival buzz

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 May 2019

Amazon fish kill at Sinop spotlights risk from 80+ Tapajós basin dams

Caio Freitas Paes 29 Apr 2019

Meet the winners of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Apr 2019

IUCN calls for moratorium on projects impacting rarest great ape species

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Apr 2019

A park in Bolivia bears the brunt of a plan to export electricity

Miriam Telma Jemio 17 Apr 2019

3 massacres in 12 days: Rural violence escalates in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 8 Apr 2019

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, grassroots opposition stalls another hydropower project

Jordan Salama 3 Apr 2019

Sarawak can invest in or give away its future (commentary)

Daniel Kammen 1 Apr 2019

Leading Amazon dam rights activist, spouse and friend murdered in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 27 Mar 2019

Days of darkness: Venezuelan national emergency is also environmental crisis

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 25 Mar 2019

Madeira River dams may spell doom for Amazon’s marathon catfish: Studies

Text by Gustavo Faleiros and images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 25 Mar 2019

Bank of China to review funding of dam in orangutan habitat in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2019

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