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Two Yanomami men carrying wood in the Amazon forest.

Organized crime brings renewed threats to Yanomami in Brazil

Aimee Gabay 1 Jul 2024

BASF, Eramet drop $2.6b Indonesian nickel project that threatens isolated tribe

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Jul 2024

Sweeping reform package threatens environmental protections in Argentina, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jun 2024

Investigation confirms more abuses on Cameroon, Sierra Leone Socfin plantations

Victoria Schneider 27 Jun 2024

French court greenlights lawsuit against EDF over wind farm in Mexico

Chris Arsenault, Philippe Le Billon 26 Jun 2024

New study reaffirms Indigenous lands key to mitigating climate change in Brazil

Sarah Sax 25 Jun 2024

Warao refugees in the Brazilian Amazon face famine, disease & despair

Nicola Zolin (photos), Paloma de Dinechin (words) 25 Jun 2024
Handils are the boundaries of fields as well as paths for transportation and waters to fish in.

Borneo’s Dayak adapt Indigenous forestry to modern peat management

Titik Kartitiani 25 Jun 2024

Indigenous Wai Wai seek markets for Brazil nuts without middlemen

Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie and Avener Prado 24 Jun 2024

U.K. court to hear lawsuit for victims of Brazilian dam disaster

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2024
Protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline on Oct. 25, 2016.

Environmental protests under attack: Interview with UN special rapporteur Michel Forst

Peter Speetjens 24 Jun 2024
An abandoned mining truck in Pilbara.

Study: More than half of Australia’s clean energy mines lie on Indigenous land

Aimee Gabay 24 Jun 2024
Preparation towards graduating boys into Maasai warriors in Simanjiro District.

Forced evictions suppress Maasai spirituality & sacred spaces in Tanzania

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Jun 2024
Torosiaje fisherman's octopus harvest.

Indonesia’s Avatar sea nomads enact Indigenous rules to protect octopus

Sarjan Lahay 20 Jun 2024
Commercial cattle ranching is banned on Indigenous territories in Brazil, but a yearlong Mongabay investigation reveals that large plots in the Arariboia Indigenous Territory have been used for ranching amid a record-high number of killings of the region’s Indigenous Guajajara inhabitants.

Revealed: Illegal cattle boom in Arariboia territory in deadliest year for Indigenous Guajajara

Karla Mendes 19 Jun 2024

Sugarcane megaproject poses latest threat to Papua’s forests, communities

Hans Nicholas Jong, Sarjan Lahay 19 Jun 2024
Water scarcity has been a problem for Xochimilco residents for a long time, even before the recent drought, due to the overexploitation of its aquifers that supply neighboring urban areas and megaprojects.

Photos: Exploring Mexico City’s Aztec-era farms, the chinampas

Aimee Gabay 19 Jun 2024

Indigenous people in the Amazon are helping to build bridges & save primates

Suzana Camargo 19 Jun 2024

UNESCO accused of supporting human rights abuses in African parks

Aimee Gabay 17 Jun 2024
Bamboo rafting is an activity along the Kala Meriah River while enjoying the beauty of nature.

In Indonesia’s Aceh, a once-isolated forest hosts local travelers on bamboo rafts

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Jun 2024
Wendy Schmidt explores Agog’s website in webXR as Amy Seidenwurm, chief of programs and strategy for Agog, looks on. Credit: Ben Gibbs / Agog

Using immersive media to strengthen support for the environment: An interview with Wendy Schmidt

Rhett A. Butler 17 Jun 2024
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

In Peru’s Madre de Dios, deforestation from mining brings huge economic losses

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jun 2024
Cattle by the side of the road in Brazilian Amazon. Image by Kate Evans/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

The harsh, dangerous gig of seizing thousands of illegal cattle in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 13 Jun 2024

Brazilian Amazon ‘cattle laundering’ taints JBS & Frigol supply chains: Report

Aimee Gabay 13 Jun 2024

Ancient farming system and campesino livelihoods at risk in Mexico City

Aimee Gabay 12 Jun 2024
Prof. Hariadi Kartodiharjo. Image from Prof Hariadi Kartodiharjo's Facebook

Indonesians mourn loss of Hariadi Kartodiharjo, beloved ‘father of governance’

Christ Belseran, Sarjan Lahay 12 Jun 2024

Landmark ruling in Suriname grants protections to local and Indigenous communities — for now

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jun 2024

Weak banking regulations leave two-thirds of Amazon vulnerable to oil and gas

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jun 2024

2 years after Bruno & Dom’s murders, Amazon region still rife with gangs

Jaqueline Sordi 10 Jun 2024

#AllEyesonPapua goes viral to highlight threat to Indigenous forests from palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jun 2024
He‘eia fishpond.

Restoring Indigenous aquaculture heals both ecosystems and communities in Hawai‘i

Keona Blanks 5 Jun 2024

In the Pan Amazon, environmental liabilities of old mining have become economic liabilities

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Jun 2024

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