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A brown clockfig in South Africa’s Gariep Valley. Image © pietermier via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Rare Southern African succulent listed as critically endangered amid mining threat

Victoria Schneider 5 Oct 2026
Myanmar mines

Myanmar’s mines pollute Thai rivers

Juan Maza 4 Oct 2026
Mineral traders watch on as antimony ore is transferred from Myanmar trucks to Thai trucks at the Pheung Khleung border crossing. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Myanmar’s polluting mines selling to China through Thai companies

Gerald Flynn 1 Oct 2026
A mother Philippine eagle, Aya, and her young, Cabuaya, at Mount Hamiguitan in their nest in 2005.

Philippine eagle habitat study maps mining risks and conservation priorities

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Sep 2026
Pratap Singh Chundawat via his Facebook page.

Pratap Singh Chundawat rescued a leopard from a well. He died in the line of duty, aged 40

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2026

Philippines is the deadliest country in Asia for environmental defenders, report finds

Naina Rao 28 Sep 2026
Environmental agents use satellite imagery analyses and on-site inspections to identify the flow of illegal wood, such as this seizure from the Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Territory, using timber credits. Image by IBAMA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

To tackle environmental crime, track profits through the whole supply chain (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Ilona Szabó de Carvalho 25 Sep 2026

Peru faces hearing over threats to uncontacted Indigenous groups in the Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 24 Sep 2026

US contractors reportedly purchase tin from company accused of illegal Amazon mining

Mongabay 23 Sep 2026
A herd of vicuña in Salar de Chalviri, Bolivia

Copper boom fueling energy transition puts Earth’s wildlands at risk

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 22 Sep 2026
Illegal miners at work in the Atewa Forest Reserve, Ghana. Image courtesy of A Rocha Ghana.

Illegal mines threaten biodiversity and drinking water in Ghana’s Atewa Forest

Mabel Adorkor Annang 21 Sep 2026
A Tapanuli orangutan. Image © Bert Harris via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Tapanuli orangutans face mining, landslides, and fire threats — with no recovery plan

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Sep 2026

Bolivia’s mining law overhaul raises environmental and community concerns

Maxwell Radwin 16 Sep 2026

Since US intervention, Venezuela’s illegal mining crisis has only worsened, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 15 Sep 2026
Gold nugget

The push for a sustainable artisanal mining in the Peruvian Amazon

Felipe Esparza 12 Sep 2026
Gold mining

Can mining gold be sustainable?

Felipe Esparza 11 Sep 2026
Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil. Illustration by Giovana Abreu/Intercept Brasil.

Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil

Naira Hofmeister 10 Sep 2026
Members of the Arhuaco community observe a fire that threatens their homes, Donachuì, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 2025. The transition between the dry and rainy seasons has become increasingly unstable, resulting in strong winds that can cause small fires, typically set to manage weeds, to spiral out of control. Image by Roberto Maccariello.

Colombia’s Indigenous guardians adapt as pressures mount on the ‘Heart of the World’

Roberto Maccariello 9 Sep 2026

Riverside families in the Amazon change meals as mercury poisons staple fish

Karla Mendes 8 Sep 2026

In Peru, mercury leaves a toxic footprint on those who depend on a river

Elizabeth Salazar Vega 8 Sep 2026

Mercury threatens over 160 communities in Bolivia’s Beni River basin

Iván Paredes Tamayo 8 Sep 2026

New analysis maps mercury threat to 951 Amazon communities in three countries

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo, Daniela Quintero Díaz 8 Sep 2026
Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ssp. verus) in the Guinea forest. Image by ©Juan Maza.

Guinea’s Iron Frontier

7 Sep 2026

Brazil’s Senate passes rare earth minerals regulation, paving the way for boosted exploration

Associated Press 4 Sep 2026

Marine conservation collides with mining in Indonesia’s biodiversity-rich Moramo Bay

La Ode Risman Hermawan 4 Sep 2026
An illegal gold mine in Nagan Raya, Aceh.

Illegal gold mining continues in Indonesia’s Aceh despite government crackdown pledge

Junaidi Hanafiah 4 Sep 2026
An artisanal miner holds up a fragment of copper-bearing ore.

On renewable energy, it’s time to debunk the ‘transition minerals’ narrative (commentary)

Shaan Sood 3 Sep 2026
Destroyed crops along the Chambishi Stream after the Sino-Metals Leach Zambia tailings spill, taken around 6 March 2025. Image courtesy of Southern Africa Litigation Center.

Development banks are backing problematic mineral projects, report finds

Elodie Toto 3 Sep 2026
A man working in a mine in Bicol.

Philippines fast-tracks critical minerals, raising Indigenous, environmental concerns

Keith Anthony Fabro 2 Sep 2026
The Indigenous community of Arborek welcomed the participants of Heyul Pelei Koranu Fyak

In Indonesia, 20 Indigenous subtribes seek common ground amid mining divisions

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2026
A Yanomami Indigenous child plays among the wreckage of a Brazilian Air Force aircraft at the Surucucu airport. Image courtesy of Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil.

Scientists use mining data to build malaria alert system in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 1 Sep 2026
A remotely operated vehicle explores brine pool formations in the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico. Image courtesy of Ocean Exploration Trust/Nautilus Live.

Gulf of Mexico’s unique Orca Basin shouldn’t become a carbon dump (commentary)

Craig R. McClain 31 Aug 2026

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