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In Brazil, half a century of salt mining sinks a city, displacing thousands

Peter Speetjens 6 May 2024
Chitwan safari

Nepal govt bypasses parliament to allow commercial projects in protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Apr 2024
Clouded leopard

Borneo and Sumatra megaprojects are carving up clouded leopard forests

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2024
A harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja)

Deforestation haunts top Peruvian reserve and its Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 24 Apr 2024

All aboard Tren Maya: Here’s what we found riding Mexico’s controversial railway

Maxwell Radwin 24 Apr 2024
Farming in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand limits agricultural land sales amid protests & tourism development

Swati Thapa 22 Apr 2024
Workers loading cement.

Circular solutions vital to curb enviro harm from cement and concrete

Sean Mowbray 18 Apr 2024
Guna homes on the coastline of Gardi Sugdub Island.

Panama delays promised relocation of sinking island community

Aimee Gabay 17 Apr 2024
A flame bowerbird (Sericulus ardens) in PNG.

Conservationists welcome new PNG Protected Areas Act — but questions remain

Spoorthy Raman 12 Apr 2024
Informal logging road

Unseen and unregulated: ‘Ghost’ roads carve up Asia-Pacific tropical forests

Carolyn Cowan 11 Apr 2024
wetland

Costa Rican community struggles to stop an airport ‘destroying our country’

Alice Pistolesi, Monica Pelliccia 8 Apr 2024

Mato Grosso shelves environmental license application for Amazon dam

Leandro Barbosa 4 Apr 2024
A mountain biker.

Adventure tours with tigers? Nepal’s proposed policy changes raise alarm

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Mar 2024
A woodpecker in Chitwan National Park.

Cable car proposal is Nepal’s latest plan to commercialize national parks

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Mar 2024
Manu Road Peru

Road paving in a Peruvian bird paradise threatens wildlife and ecotourism

Erik Iverson 19 Mar 2024
Irrawaddy dolphins come up for air

Irrawaddy dolphin death in Thailand’s Songkhla Lake underscores conservation needs

Carolyn Cowan 19 Mar 2024

Projected Pantanal waterway threatens protected areas, may render navigation impossible

Fernanda Wenzel 15 Mar 2024
A bridge in Masungi Georeserve.

Surprise discovery of wind farm project in Philippine reserve prompts alarm

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 5 Mar 2024
A laborer at a brickfield in Amin Bazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

To save topsoil & reduce pollution, Bangladesh moves toward alternative bricks

Abu Siddique 4 Mar 2024

Indonesians uprooted by mining industry call for a fairer future amid presidential vote

Petrus Riski, Taufik Wijaya 4 Mar 2024
The LNG carrier Shahamah in Uraga Channel, Japan.

U.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts say

Shanna Hanbury 27 Feb 2024
A torrent of mining waste killed nearly 300 people when a tailings dam at Vale’s mine in Brumadinho collapsed in 2019.

Scientists now know how the Brumadinho dam disaster happened, and the lessons to learn

Sarah Sax 21 Feb 2024
Mekong River

Hydropower in doubt as climate impacts Mekong Basin water availability

Carolyn Cowan 21 Feb 2024
Generated image showing a road through a deforested landscape.

Brazil’s BR-319 highway: The danger reaches a critical moment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 17 Feb 2024

A highway project in Chile threatens one of the world’s longest-living tree species

Michelle Carrere 15 Feb 2024

No sea change on marine policy from candidates as Indonesia heads to polls

Basten Gokkon 13 Feb 2024
A front view of the Kedarnath Temple in the aftermath of the 2013 floods.

Risky development in Uttarakhand: Interview with environmentalist Ravi Chopra

Swati Thapa 13 Feb 2024

Ecuador government weighs delaying closure of controversial ITT oil block

Maxwell Radwin 12 Feb 2024

Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population

Basten Gokkon 8 Feb 2024
A male gharial guarding hatchlings.

Nepal’s gharial population rises, but threats to the crocs persist

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jan 2024
Tracegrow, a Finnish company, uses recycled batteries and industrial waste to create agricultural fertilizers.

Lessons from Finland’s attempt to transition to a circular economy

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2024
Chimpanzee

A rush for ‘green’ iron is on in Guinea. Will chimpanzees be a casualty?

Juliette Portala 17 Jan 2024

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