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Landslide deaths again highlight safety failures in Indonesia’s nickel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 May 2025
A towering tailings pile sits directly behind a residence in Poço Dantas. Image by Rebeca Binda.

In Brazil’s Jequitinhonha valley, communities share how to reduce lithium mining impacts

Amanda Magnani, Rebeca Binda 30 Apr 2025
A glass octopus, a nearly transparent species whose only visible features are its optic nerve, eyeballs and digestive tract.

The Metals Company applied to the U.S. for a deep-sea mining license

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Apr 2025
Banner image of a forest in Finland by kallerna via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How did Finland lead the pursuit of a circular economy? Mongabay podcast explores

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2025
An aerial view of mining operations run by KP Cement, Vantage Mining and others inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in October 2023. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cement factory approved inside Cambodia’s Prey Lang sanctuary despite mining ban

Gerald Flynn 28 Apr 2025

Trump moves to begin deep-sea mining despite environmental and legal concerns

Bobby Bascomb 25 Apr 2025
Voluntarily isolated people in the Javari Valley in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: FUNAI.

Indigenous delegates at the U.N. raise alarm on isolated peoples in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 25 Apr 2025
Banner image of an electric vehicle charging by andreas160578 via Pixabay.

EV supply chain & transport need redesign, Mongabay podcast shows

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2025

Armed groups and junta profit as toxic mines devour southern Myanmar

Dawei Watch 23 Apr 2025

Indonesia defies global coal retreat with captive plant boom

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Apr 2025
A squat lobster in the deep sea.

With deep-sea mining plans in limbo, Norwegian companies fold or dig in

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Apr 2025
Collage of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues attendees and snippet of visa paperwork. Image by Grist / Ines Belchior / Ronja Porho / UN DESA DISD; Angela Weiss / AFP / Getty Images.

The 2025 U.N. Forum on Indigenous Issues starts today with hopes and concerns on the agenda

Anita Hofschneider 21 Apr 2025

Ecuador communities resist Canada-backed gold mine in sacred highlands

Aimee Gabay, Sonam Lama Hyolmo 17 Apr 2025
A flamingo in Salar de Uyuni, southwestern Bolivia.

Bolivian communities push back against foreign-backed lithium projects

Carla Ruas 17 Apr 2025

Still no trial over Argentina cyanide mine spill, 7 years after officials were charged

Aimee Gabay 16 Apr 2025
Dugong in Thailand

Dugong numbers plummet amid seagrass decline in Thailand’s Andaman Sea

Carolyn Cowan 10 Apr 2025

Tree rings reveal mercury pollution from illegal gold mining: Study

Bobby Bascomb 8 Apr 2025
Munduruku in the Tapajós river, next to Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land, home to the Munduruku people, Pará state, Brazil. Photo by Valdemir Cunha / Greenpeace.

What pushes Indigenous Munduruku people to mine their land in Brazil’s Amazon?

Aimee Gabay 8 Apr 2025
Susana Muhamad interacts with an Indigenous representative.

Colombia’s green transition should be inclusive: Interview with Susana Muhamad, former environment minister

Mie Hoejris Dahl 8 Apr 2025

Lithium Triangle mining may strain water sources more than expected, study says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Apr 2025
Banner image of deep-sea corals on the ocean floor via NOAA (Public domain).

Global seabed regulator concerned by mining company’s unilateral actions

Kristine Sabillo 2 Apr 2025
Greenpeace activists from New Zealand and Mexico confront TMC’s deep-sea mining vessel, “Hidden Gem,” off the coast of Manzanillo, Mexico, in 2022. Image by © Gustavo Graf / Greenpeace.

Deep-sea miner TMC seeks U.S. approval, potentially bypassing global regulator

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Mar 2025

Colombia creates landmark territory to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups

Maxwell Radwin 27 Mar 2025

Peru’s rare peatland swamps at risk as illegal gold mining expands

Maxwell Radwin 26 Mar 2025
Chilean flamingos (Phoenicopterus chilensis) in Lake Chinchaycocha in Junín, Peru.

Drowned lands and poisoned waters threaten Peru’s campesinos and their livestock

Aimee Gabay 25 Mar 2025

Uncontacted Ayoreo could face health risks as Gran Chaco shrinks, experts warn

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2025

Global outcry as petitioners demand no mining expansion in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Mar 2025
Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) near the Tapajós river, next to Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land, home to the Munduruku people, Pará state, Brazil.

Officials share strategies to stop spread of illegal miners from Munduruku land

Aimee Gabay 18 Mar 2025
Aerial photograph of land being cleared for a nickel mine in North Morowali.

Indonesian watchdog demands prosecution for environmental crime ‘cartels’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2025
Aerial view of coal mining in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.

Indonesia’s coal gasification reboot faces backlash over economic, environmental risks

Basten Gokkon 13 Mar 2025
Two Munduruku boys walk along a river in the Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land. Image by Anderson Barbosa / Greenpeace.

Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku Indigenous land sees success, but fears remain

Aimee Gabay 12 Mar 2025
Coconut plantations on Gebe Island threatened by nickel mining.

Nickel miners dig up Indonesia’s Gebe Island despite Indigenous and legal opposition

Jaya Barends 11 Mar 2025

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