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Critics cite threats to communities, mangroves from El Salvador airport plans

Maxwell Radwin 15 Nov 2022

Indonesia’s grand EV plans hinge on a ‘green’ industrial park that likely isn’t

Justin Jin Soong Liew, Chun Sheng Goh 15 Nov 2022
paramos

Avocado farming is threatening Colombia’s natural water factory

Emily Senkosky 1 Nov 2022
Person holding cardboard sign saying Stop EACOP", concealing lower half of their face. Photothèque AT via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

As banks fund oil pipeline, campaigners question their environmental pledges

Thomas Lewton 1 Nov 2022
Okapis (Okapia johnstoni) are related to giraffes. Image in the public domain.

Element Africa: Mines take their toll on nature and communities

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2022

As Brazil starts repaving an Amazon highway, land grabbers get to work

Caio Guatelli 13 Oct 2022

Amazonian river communities seek to boost hard-won land rights to fight loggers

Lais Modelli 11 Oct 2022

Mangroves and wildlife in Bornean bay at risk from Indonesia’s new capital

Basten Gokkon, Richaldo Hariandja 7 Oct 2022
The main road built by PT Gema Kreasi Perdana

Sulawesi islanders grieve land lost to nickel mine

Eko Rusdianto 6 Oct 2022
Protestors with signs protesting EACOP, ReconAfrica projects. Image courtesy 350.org

‘Disclose the deal,’ East Africa pipeline opponents say (commentary)

Robert Tumwesigye Baganda 5 Oct 2022
Endangered black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes). Image courtesy of Kimberly Fraser/USFWS.

Will the Uinta Basin Railway derail U.S. climate change efforts? (commentary)

Sammy Herdman 3 Oct 2022
Vehicles on the Trans-Amazonian Highway

Road network spreads ‘arteries of destruction’ across 41% of Brazilian Amazon

Antenor Savoldi Junior 22 Sep 2022
A mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona), one of the many species that inhabit Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve. Image by AlexisENVN via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New oil refinery ‘a huge disaster’ for Nigerian forest reserve

Orji Sunday 20 Sep 2022
The Sekong River is a key tributary for the Mekong River.

In the Mekong Basin, an ‘unnecessary’ dam poses an outsized threat

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 14 Sep 2022

As Brazil ramps up rail projects, wildlife kills remain understudied

Dimas Marques 13 Sep 2022
critically endangered white-rumped vulture

No time to keep vultures out of danger as new Nepal airport set to open

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Aug 2022

‘Cursed’ dam project in orangutan habitat claims 16th life in less than 2 years

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2022

Nearness to roads and palm oil mills a key factor in peatland clearing by smallholders

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Aug 2022
Banks of a river where sand is illegally mined.

Sand mining a boon for illegal industry at expense of Bangladesh’s environment

Abu Siddique 16 Aug 2022

Mexico court drops injunctions, paving way for controversial Tren Maya railway

Maxwell Radwin 15 Aug 2022
Nepal Beni jomsom road construction

No critical examination of flawed environmental assessments in Nepal, experts say

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Aug 2022
Gorillas in Cameroon.

Private road sparks fears for Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 10 Aug 2022

Study warns of increased poaching if road through Brazil’s Iguaçu is reopened

Suzana Camargo 8 Aug 2022
A coal mine in Borneo.

Building Indonesia’s ‘green’ new capital could see coal use surge (analysis)

Chun Sheng Goh 2 Aug 2022

As roads and railways threaten primates, Brazil is a global hotspot

Dimas Marques 2 Aug 2022

Mexico’s Maya Train chugs forward, but at what cost to habitats and communities?

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Jul 2022
Smoke from a factory in Turkey

Turkey’s authoritarian development ignores planetary boundaries

Clément Girardot 21 Jul 2022
Chiew Larn reservoir, Thailand

Small mammals stranded by hydropower dams die out surprisingly fast: Study

Carolyn Cowan 14 Jul 2022

‘Water always wins,’ so why are we fighting it?

Mike DiGirolamo 12 Jul 2022
People wading through water.

‘The volume of water is beyond control’: Q&A with flood expert M. Monirul Qader Mirza

Abu Siddique 5 Jul 2022
Boats in Lake Malawi National Park.

Construction begins on controversial water project inside Lake Malawi National Park

Charles Mpaka 4 Jul 2022

Raise-and-release program keeping Nepal’s gharials alive can be improved, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 Jul 2022

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