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A rally on May 5 in front of the municipal hall.

Ousted anti-mining mayor heads back to Philippine city hall after landslide win

Keith Anthony Fabro 16 May 2022
An artisanal fisherman next to a ship in Madagascar.

Murky provenance of a Chinese fleet clouds Madagascar shrimp fishery

Rivonala Razafison 11 May 2022
Artisanal miners in Rubaya area, DRC.

Scheme to stop ‘conflict minerals’ fails to end child labor in DRC, report says

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 10 May 2022
A heavy fuel oil power plant in Bangladesh that supplies to the national grid.

Bangladesh power bill mounts amid plan to supersize already bloated capacity

Abu Siddique 9 May 2022
People protest against ExxonMobil in Melbourne, Australia.

California subpoenas ExxonMobil over plastic pollution

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Apr 2022

To stop plastic pollution, we must stop plastic production, scientists say

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2022
A jade mining site in Myanmar's Kachin state.

Analysis: Myanmar’s gemstone riches bring poverty and environmental destruction

John Sai Luu 25 Apr 2022
Road constructed into the forest path near the Liboumba River.

In Gabon, a community’s plea against logging paves the way for a new reserve

Benjamin Evine-Binet 12 Apr 2022
Piñatex fibers in the drying stage. The pineapple leaf fiber has great tensile strength and flexibility. Image courtesy of Riikka Juva/Ananas Anam.

Sustainable fashion: Biomaterial revolution replacing fur and skins

Jenny Gonzales 8 Apr 2022
Coal mining in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesia’s gasification plans could be costly for budget and environment

Nithin Coca 30 Mar 2022
A truck with Oilpalm fruits is entering Fajar Harapan Palm Oil Mill.

EU response to palm oil is opportunity, not threat (commentary)

Andre Barahamin 29 Mar 2022
A bird rescued from the oil spill is cared for by personnel from the national wildlife agency, SERFOR. Image courtesy of SERFOR.

Oil spill contaminates wildlife, beaches and protected areas in Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 25 Mar 2022

Microplastics plus organic pollutants equals 10 times the toxicity, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Mar 2022

Banning high-deforestation palm oil has limited impact on saving forests: Study

Loren Bell 3 Mar 2022

Latest Nigeria oil spill highlights ‘wretched’ state of the industry

Mongabay 24 Feb 2022

ReconAfrica pushes ahead with Namibia oil exploration amid claims of violations

Victoria Schneider 17 Feb 2022

Sierra Leone lawsuit against diamond mine runs up against corporate opacity

Emma Black 17 Feb 2022

Seychelles embraces transparency in fisheries, but gaps in data and action remain

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Feb 2022

A mayor in the Philippines took on a mine, and lost her job over it

Keith Anthony Fabro 11 Feb 2022
Q'eqchi ownership of the land.

Indigenous community takes Guatemalan land rights fight to international court

Sandra Cuffe 9 Feb 2022
Waorani women

Ecuador’s top court rules for stronger land rights for Indigenous communities

Kimberley Brown 9 Feb 2022

Polluting with impunity: Palm oil companies flout regulations in Ecuador

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022

Community in Ecuador punished for trying to stop alleged palm oil pollution

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022
Netty Joyce Mukanganise tends her tobacco-curing barn. Image by Tonderayi Mukeredzi for Mongabay.

Zimbabwe’s forests go up in smoke to feed its tobacco habit

Tonderayi Mukeredzi 3 Feb 2022
Dakota pipeline protest

Standing Rock withdraws from ongoing environmental assessment of Dakota Access Pipeline

Laurel Sutherland 2 Feb 2022

Tukupu: The women of the Kariña community, guardians of Venezuela’s forests

Astrid Arellano 2 Feb 2022
Solitary figure in a partly cultivated field, Nimba mountain range in the background. Image by Maarten van der Bent via Flickr CC BY-SA-2.0

Liberian villagers threaten to leave mining agreement, citing broken promises

Varney Kamara 27 Jan 2022
Indigenous salmon fishers

Alaskan Indigenous leaders fear impacts on salmon streams by mining project

Laurel Sutherland 26 Jan 2022
Protestors with signs protesting EACOP, ReconAfrica projects. Image courtesy 350.org

Total’s oil pipeline gets go-ahead from Ugandan MPs despite secret terms

Thomas Lewton 14 Jan 2022

Philippine groups slam ‘cruel Christmas gift’ as open-pit mining ban is lifted

Bong S. Sarmiento 11 Jan 2022

Madagascar’s small fishers cheer new trawl-free zone, but do trawlers obey it?

Edward Carver 28 Dec 2021

Indigenous groups unveil plan to protect 80% of the Amazon in Peru and Ecuador

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 3 Dec 2021

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