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A northern pintail takes flight in the Tanguar Haor wetland.

Fewer migratory birds stopping at key Bangladesh wetland amid human disturbances

Abu Siddique 15 May 2023
Flooded road.

Dhaka faces manifold problems as water bodies diminish

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 10 May 2023
It’s early morning and Lun Yi feeds her chicken.

Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules

Hanna Hett | Shaurya Kshatri | Megan Wilde | Aastha Sethi 28 Apr 2023
James Njuguna, a shepherd who lives near the Manguo swamp.

Drying wetlands and drought threaten water supplies in Kenya’s Kiambu County

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 5 Apr 2023
A fisher at Kenya's Lake Victoria.

Fish kills leave Kenya’s Lake Victoria farmers at a loss, seeking answers

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 24 Mar 2023
Fishermen going fishing at Dunga beach, Kisumu.

Kenyan science interns turn Lake Victoria’s fish waste into oil and flowers

Mactilda Mbenywe 17 Mar 2023
Fishermen at dawn heading out onto Lake Turkana to try their luck for the day. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

Herders turn to fishing in the desert amid severe drought, putting pressure on fish population

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
A bronze-winged jacana.

For key Bangladesh wetland, bid for Ramsar status is no guarantee of protection

Mahadi Al Hasnat 17 Feb 2023

Venezuela’s oil spill crisis reached new heights in 2022: report

Maxwell Radwin 20 Jan 2023
Used polythene waste on the banks of Buriganga River.

Dhaka’s ailing sewage system threatens human and environmental health

S.M. Najmus Sakib 30 Nov 2022
A family clears overgrown aquatic weeds in a wetland.

Habitat loss, climate change threaten Bangladesh’s native freshwater fishes with extinction

Rafiqul Islam 20 Oct 2022
A veriety of drugs in vials and an IV bottle.

Humans are dosing Earth’s waterways with medicines. It isn’t healthy.

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Sep 2022
A young fisherman uses a legal net.

Fisheries crackdown pushes Cambodians to the brink on Tonle Sap lake

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 26 Aug 2022

Rains quell fire risk around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, but the future looks fiery

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 27 Jul 2022
Woman paddling a boat loaded with fruit to sell.

Farmers feel the pressure after conservation crackdown around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake

Danielle Keeton-Olsen, Ly Vouch Long 20 Jul 2022

In restoring polluted rivers, Indonesia looks at restocking endemic fish

Basten Gokkon, L. Darmawan 12 Jul 2022
Boats in Lake Malawi National Park.

Construction begins on controversial water project inside Lake Malawi National Park

Charles Mpaka 4 Jul 2022
Framers tending to their agricultural land in Uzbekistan.

Beyond boundaries: Earth’s water cycle is being bent to breaking point

Petro Kotzé 21 Jun 2022

China-funded dam could disrupt key Argentine glaciers and biodiversity

Maxwell Radwin 12 May 2022
Fishermen on Lake Victoria.

Boom and bust on Lake Victoria: Q&A with author Mark Weston

John Cannon 10 May 2022

Threatened wetlands in Paraguay’s Lake Ypacaraí raise legal questions

Maxwell Radwin 25 Feb 2022
Dakota pipeline protest

Standing Rock withdraws from ongoing environmental assessment of Dakota Access Pipeline

Laurel Sutherland 2 Feb 2022

Indonesia aims for sustainable fish farming with ‘aquaculture villages’

Luh De Suriyani, M Ambari 7 Jan 2022

Indigenous mine opponents targeted in raids during state of siege in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 15 Nov 2021
AFIEGO staff with two supporters after their release from jail. Image courtesy AFIEGO.

Ugandan activists’ arrest slammed as threat to space for rights defenders

Terna Gyuse 28 Oct 2021

Study chronicles dying of a lake in PNG with advent of oil & gas activities

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Oct 2021

Oil spills plague Venezuelan coast, but cleanup efforts are lacking: Report

Maxwell Radwin 4 Oct 2021
A farmer uses a manure spreader as a natural fertilizer. An excess of manure from livestock produces an excess of ammonia, a harmful nitrogen emission. Image by CityofGeneva via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Nitrogen: The environmental crisis you haven’t heard of yet

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Sep 2021

Indonesia lays out plan to rescue 15 lakes under pressure from human activity

Basten Gokkon 10 Sep 2021
Boats afloat in a lake of hyacinth at Kisumu. Image by Richard Portsmouth via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

From a nuisance to a benefit, ‘world’s worst weed’ finds new use as biofuel

Federica Marsi 6 Sep 2021

Turning Kenya’s problematic invasive plants into useful bioenergy

Anthony Langat 21 Jul 2021
Activist Chhoeun Daravy was arrested August, 2020. Image courtesy of LICADHO (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Outrage as Cambodian court convicts activists for inciting ‘social chaos’

Gerald Flynn 14 May 2021

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