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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

Company to probe for minerals close to Mekong River dolphin habitat

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2018

Belize imposes offshore oil moratorium to protect reefs

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2018

Venezuela’s Mining Arc boom sweeps up Indigenous people and cultures

Bram Ebus 15 Jan 2018

Peru declares a huge new national park in the Amazon

Yvette Sierra Praeli 12 Jan 2018

Indonesia’s Aceh extends moratorium on new mining sites

Junaidi Hanafiah 12 Jan 2018

Critically endangered monkeys found in Ghana forest slated for mining

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 Jan 2018

Brazil 2018: Amazon under attack, resistance grows, courts to act, elections

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 9 Jan 2018

Rainforests: the year in review 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2018
A manta ray in the South China Sea. Photo by Greg Asner/Divephoto.org.

2017’s top 10 ocean news stories

Douglas McCauley, Paul DeSalles 27 Dec 2017

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 27 Dec 2017

Roads, dams and railways: Ten infrastructure stories from Southeast Asia in 2017

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2017

So long, UNESCO! What does U.S. withdrawal mean for the environment?

Giovanni Ortolani 26 Dec 2017

Mine tailings dam failures major cause of environmental disasters: report

Zoe Sullivan 19 Dec 2017

Top Argentine glacier scientist charged over cyanide mine spill

Max Nathanson 14 Dec 2017

Papua New Guinea gets its largest-ever conservation area

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Dec 2017

Militarization and mining a dangerous mix in Venezuelan Amazon

Bram Ebus 7 Dec 2017

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