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Venezuelan gold strike prompts invasion by 3,000 miners, military raid

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 25 Apr 2018

Meet the winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018

Anglo American iron ore pipeline suffers second rupture in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 18 Apr 2018

Coal company fined 2 billion rupiah for illegal waste dumping in Borneo

Tommy Apriando 12 Apr 2018

Activists fear for environmental protection under Indonesia’s revised Criminal Code

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Apr 2018

Philippines’ Duterte suggests open-pit mining ban will stay in place

Mongabay.com 11 Apr 2018

Ire and ore: Demands grow for clarity around Cambodian gold mine

Rod Harbinson 3 Apr 2018

Indonesian graftbusters put a price tag on environmental crime

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2018

Traditional landowners reject mining exploration bid in Bougainville

Catherine Wilson 27 Mar 2018

The wind of change blowing through Ghana’s villages (commentary)

Mark Olden 23 Mar 2018
The vice president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE), Zoila Castillo confronts a policeman demanding that she be let into the government palace of Carondelet to personally deliver to the president the order they prepared on March 12, 2018. Photo by Jonatan Rosas.

Indigenous Amazonian women demand end to extraction

Kimberley Brown 22 Mar 2018

More than 40 percent of Madagascar’s freshwater life sliding toward extinction, IUCN finds

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2018
Zapara indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

Indigenous women march in Ecuador, vow to ‘defend our territory’

Kimberley Brown 9 Mar 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy, Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

In eastern Indonesia, a forest tribe pushes back against miners and loggers

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Mar 2018

Norsk Hydro accused of Amazon toxic spill, admits ‘clandestine pipeline’

Max Nathanson 27 Feb 2018

Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction (photo story)

Maximo Anderson, Aaron Vincent Elkaim 26 Feb 2018

As Indonesia gears up for elections, activists brace for an environmental sell-off

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Feb 2018

Protected areas with deforestation more likely to lose status in Brazilian state

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2018

Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon dropped 13 percent in 2017

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Feb 2018

What is happening to the orangutans of Borneo?

Basten Gokkon 15 Feb 2018

‘Eye of Papua’ shines a light on environmental, indigenous issues in Indonesia’s last frontier

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Feb 2018

Scientists discover 18 new spider-hunting spiders from Madagascar

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Feb 2018

Demand for sand leads to global ecological crisis

Alexandra Popescu 8 Feb 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018

Venezuela: can a failing state protect its environment and its people?

Glenn Scherer 1 Feb 2018

Sumatra’s ‘tiger descendants’ cling to their customs as coal mines encroach

Dedek Hendry 30 Jan 2018

Maduro seeks sell off of Venezuela’s natural resources to escape debt – analysis

Bram Ebus 25 Jan 2018

Stranger than fiction? New spiders found in Brazil named after creatures from popular fantasy stories

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2018

Pope’s message to Amazonia inspires hope, but will it bring action?

Justin Catanoso 22 Jan 2018

Pope set to visit site of deforestation, indigenous struggle in Peru

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2018

Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands

Zoe Sullivan 18 Jan 2018

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