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Science lays out framework to assess climate liability of fossil fuel majors

Meet the Nepali lawyers defending nature one case at a time

Oil companies have downplayed extent of spills in Gulf of Mexico, investigation finds

In Borneo village, Indigenous Dayaks leave farming amid stricter fire rules

Global agarwood trade heavily dependent on wild, threatened trees: Study

Indian trawlers leave Sri Lankan small-scale fishers a ravaged, bereft sea

Fishing rights, and wrongs, cast small-scale South African fishers adrift

Judges charged in Indonesian bribery scandal after clearing palm oil giants of corruption

Nature protection is part of fundamental law in Amazon countries

After decade of delays, pressure mounts on Indonesia to pass Indigenous rights bill

Indonesians suing pulpwood firms over haze face intimidation, seek human rights protection

5 takeaways from the 2022 Repsol oil spill in Peru

‘Sustainable’ palm oil firms continue illegal peatland clearing despite permit revocation

A Cameroon stadium spurs one community’s fight over ancestral lands

Indonesian watchdog demands prosecution for environmental crime ‘cartels’

UN accuses Indonesia’s No. 2 palm oil firm of rights & environmental abuses

108 federal protected areas in Mexico remain without actual management plans

Indonesia’s militarized crackdown on illegal forest use sparks human rights concerns

‘I’m Still Here’ Eunice Paiva’s pivotal role in Brazil’s Indigenous & environmental rights

Unchecked illegal trawling pushes Indonesia’s small-scale fishers to the brink

Mother of 2 jailed in Sumatra as wildfires dragnet continues to catch small farmers

No justice in sight for World Bank project-affected communities in Liberia

How conservation NGOs can put human rights principles into practice (commentary)

Indonesia rushes mining law amendments, raising environmental and governance alarms

Rail and port project in Amazon wetland stirs angst among Quilombola fishers

Nigeria’s new coastal highway runs over communities & biodiversity hotspots

EUDR divides Brazil’s environmental and agribusiness authorities

Mexico misses one-year deadline to submit new protected areas’ management plans

Indonesian scientist under fire for revealing extent of illegal tin mining

Indonesia’s voracious songbird trade laps up rare and poisonous pitohuis

NGOs raise concerns over Borneo pilot of ‘jurisdictional’ certification for palm oil

It’s time for a U.N. ‘universal declaration on nature’ (commentary)

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