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New Paraguay law aims to improve carbon credit market

Maxwell Radwin 20 Oct 2023
Protesters traveled from Las Naves, and across the country, to protest mining activities in their communities in front of the Constitutional Court, during a hearing to debate Decree 754 on September 18, 2023.

Tensions flare as Ecuador’s environment consultation process is put to the test

Kimberley Brown 16 Oct 2023

‘It’s a real mess’: Mining and deforestation threaten unparalleled DRC wildlife haven

Ruth Kamnitzer 13 Oct 2023
Aerial view of the FSO Safer with the Yemen and Ndeavor moored alongside, preparing to transfer the oil. Image courtesy of Boskalis.

How the United Nations, kids and corporations saved the Red Sea from an oil disaster

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Oct 2023

Cambodia bars green activists from traveling to accept international award

Gerald Flynn 6 Oct 2023
Coal mining

World Bank still backs coal in Asia, despite climate claims, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 5 Oct 2023

Rechargeable battery industry needs better mining regulations, report says

Maxwell Radwin 29 Sep 2023
Right Livelihood's activists.

Mother Nature Cambodia’s ‘relentless’ activism earns Right Livelihood Award

Gerald Flynn 28 Sep 2023
Ubre Tiblak taps a tree for resin.

Indigenous community fighting a mine in Palawan wins a milestone legal verdict

Keith Anthony Fabro 25 Sep 2023

How Canada’s growing presence in Latin America is hurting the environment

Maxwell Radwin 22 Sep 2023
Fany Kuiru (right) with other Indigenous leaders at the March to End Fossil Fuels event in New York City on September 17, 2023. Image courtesy of the Confederation of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA).

Amazonian Indigenous leaders call for 80×2025 at Climate Week (commentary)

Fany Kuiru 19 Sep 2023
A southern stingray swimming over the seafloor.

‘Totally unsustainable’ sand mining harms marine environments, new data suggest

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Sep 2023

Panama protests to protect ecosystems and canal against pending mining deal

Daniel Harkins 18 Sep 2023

Latin America most dangerous place for environmental defenders, report says

Maxwell Radwin 14 Sep 2023

Indonesian regulator gets 12 years’ jail for palm oil permit bribery

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2023

The struggle to deter mining operations in a little-known biodiversity sanctuary in Brazil

Duda Menegassi for ((o))eco 11 Sep 2023
Aerial view of a road.

Study: Tricky balancing act between EV scale-up and mining battery metals

Liz Kimbrough 8 Sep 2023

Pacific alliance adopts moratorium on deep-sea mining, halting resurgent PNG project

John Cannon 6 Sep 2023
A muddied river.

Muddied tropical rivers reveal magnitude of global gold mining boom: Study

Shanna Hanbury 5 Sep 2023
A path is cut deep into the core zone of Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia's Mondulkiri province following the government's approval of a new mining license in the protected forest. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Cambodia approves, then suspends, marble mine in Keo Seima REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn, Meng Kroypunlok 31 Aug 2023
Activist Duduzile Dludla of Makhasaneni, standing in front of her home and an umbombe or forest strangler-fig (Ficus natalensis)

South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans

Dimitri Selibas 28 Aug 2023
Kono village chief Chris Magalan speaks to his community members about the Solwara 1 project in New Ireland province.

Deep-sea mining project in PNG resurfaces despite community opposition

John Cannon 18 Aug 2023
Dairi residents stood in solidarity with farmers and called for the rescue of Dairi from the zinc and lead mines.

Sumatra women farmers celebrate court win against China-backed zinc mine

Rabul Sawal 16 Aug 2023

Captive to coal: Indonesia to burn even more fossil fuel for green tech

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Aug 2023
Aerial view of the mine and stockyard of Vale's S11D Complex in Pará State. Image by Ricardo Teles for Agência Vale.

Can Lula balance the transition to renewable energy with Amazon mining expansion? (commentary)

Gabriela Sarmet, Christian Poirier 2 Aug 2023
Hervé Berville, France’s state secretary for the sea.

‘The deep sea is vital to protect the ocean’: Q&A with France’s Hervé Berville

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Aug 2023

International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists

Maxwell Radwin 2 Aug 2023
Seabed ecosystem.

Deep-sea mining meetings conclude after stalemate on key agenda items

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Jul 2023
A farmer in Colombia checks her coffee bushes.

The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot?

Sean Mowbray 27 Jul 2023
Sea fan in the deep ocean.

Deep-sea mining rules delayed two more years; mining start remains unclear

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jul 2023
The dumbo octopus is a species only found in the deep sea. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration.

Scores of parliamentarians renew opposition to deep-sea mining at international meeting (commentary)

Caroline Roose, Marie Toussaint 25 Jul 2023

A just energy transition requires better governance & equity in the DRC

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Jul 2023

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