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Pedro Uc is a poet, campesino and defender of his territory. Photo taken from his Facebook page.

‘What’s lacking is respect for Mayan culture’: Q&A with Pedro Uc Be on Mexico’s Tren Maya

Thelma Gómez Durán 30 May 2022
A Bengal tiger sits on a road in neighboring India.

Nepal’s key habitat could lose 39% of its tigers in 20 years, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 May 2022

Riders of the lost waves: Surfing, and saving, Brazil’s pororocas

Aldem Bourscheit 27 May 2022
Proposed model of Nijgadh Airport, Nepal

Nepal’s Supreme Court axes plans to build controversial new airport

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 May 2022

U.N., rights groups flag potential violations in $3b Indonesian tourism project

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 May 2022
Giant stingray

In the Mekong’s murky depths, giants abound, new expedition finds

Carolyn Cowan 24 May 2022

‘Wildlife-friendly’ infrastructure rules in Nepal and India ignore the birds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 May 2022

In Brazil’s Amazon, Quilombolas fight the erasure of their African heritage

Miguel Pinheiro 17 May 2022

Small-island fishers petition Indonesian president to end coastal dredging

Suryadi 13 May 2022

As tiger numbers in Nepal and India grow, their freedom to roam shrinks

Abhaya Raj Joshi, Sahana Ghosh 13 May 2022

China-funded dam could disrupt key Argentine glaciers and biodiversity

Maxwell Radwin 12 May 2022
A group of traditional fishermen in small boats catching fish in the waters of Maluku.

Indonesia cancels fisheries infrastructure projects in Maluku region amid lack of funds

Nurdin Tubaka 11 May 2022

Human disturbance is pitting wolverines against an unlikely competitor: Coyotes

Grace Hansen 9 May 2022

A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters

Ronaldo Ribeiro, Letícia Klein, Kevin Damasio, Laura Kurtzberg, Ambiental Media 5 May 2022
Deforestation frontier in Jaru, Brazil

Putin’s financial interest in Brazil’s Amazon highways (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 4 May 2022

Surge in deforestation as Brazil pushes to pave a forgotten Amazon road

Naira Hofmeister 4 May 2022
A model artesian well that ICRAF installed in Winongan, Pasuruan district. The well is equipped with a valve for more efficient water use.

Better deep-bore wells aim to stop Indonesia’s groundwater waste

Asad Asnawi 28 Apr 2022

Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul mobilizes to reduce wildlife massacre on its roads

Dimas Marques 25 Apr 2022
Detroit Dam in Oregon

The world’s dams: Doing major harm but a manageable problem?

Petro Kotzé 21 Apr 2022

New report pieces together toll of environmental damage in Venezuela in 2021

Maxwell Radwin 20 Apr 2022
A mother and baby gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.

Road projects threaten integrity of Uganda’s mountain gorilla stronghold

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Apr 2022
A power plant under construction in Bangladesh.

Sluggish growth of renewables threatens Bangladesh’s clean-energy goals

Abu Siddique 19 Apr 2022
Irrawaddy dolphin in the Mekong river © WWF-Cambodia / Tan Someth Bunwath

Death of last river dolphin in Laos rings alarm bells for Mekong population

Carolyn Cowan 14 Apr 2022

Small farmers take a stand for one of Dakar’s last urban woodlands

Francesco De Augustinis 13 Apr 2022
Pokhara Airport in Nepal with the Himalayan range in the background

‘Sharing the air’ proves a challenge for new Nepal airport in bird paradise

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Apr 2022

Best-preserved part of Brazil’s Amazon, home to isolated tribes, faces ‘decimation’

Lais Modelli 31 Mar 2022
NASA satellite image of the Rio Tapajos in March 2022.

Dams on Brazil’s Jamanxim River: The advancing assault on the environment and Indigenous peoples in the Tapajós basin (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 29 Mar 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

‘Giving up’: Amazon is losing its resilience under human pressure, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2022

Chinese investment in Latin America plagues people and nature: Report

Maxwell Radwin 24 Mar 2022

AI model shows how Amazon dams can be made less environmentally damaging

Jennifer Ann Thomas 24 Mar 2022

Millennia of Indigenous history faces erasure as mining grips Brazil’s Tapajós

Maurício Angelo 24 Mar 2022

2021 Amazon deforestation map shows devastating impact of ranching, agriculture

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2022

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