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Gold mining shifts course of Peruvian river, ‘will destroy’ ecosystems

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 May 2016

How effective will Indonesia’s palm oil permit freeze really be?

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 May 2016

Mexican conservation success threatened by wave of mining concessions

Martha Pskowski 29 Apr 2016

Peruvian town faces another 14 years of air pollution from mine

Milagros Salazar, Milton López 28 Apr 2016

Gold mining ramps up, pushes deeper into Peruvian reserve

Morgan Erickson-Davis 22 Apr 2016

Palm oil, mining moratorium declared in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2016

India’s “environmentalism of convenience” threatens forest-dwellers’ rights

Arpitha Kodiveri 14 Apr 2016

Half of World Heritage Sites threatened by ‘harmful industrial activities’, new report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Apr 2016

Could a rare rhino’s tragic death in Borneo have been prevented?

Basten Gokkon 8 Apr 2016

DiCaprio endorses petition to save Sumatra’s last great rainforest

Mongabay.com 7 Apr 2016

The hidden toll of war: world’s largest ape plummets 77% in 20 years

Nika Levikov 5 Apr 2016

Breakthrough: Indonesia’s highest court orders release of mining data

Yustinus S. Hardjanto 30 Mar 2016

‘Exploitation crisis’: Civil war fueling ‘sharp rise’ in poaching and trafficking of South Sudan’s wildlife

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Mar 2016
High security fence at the Marange diamond fields. Security is tight but poverty in nearby communities drives many to attempt to break in and pan for diamonds illegally. Those caught risk beatings and torture by government and mine security forces. Photo by Andrew Mambondiyani.

Abuse, displacement, pollution: the legacy of Zimbabwe’s Marange diamonds

Andrew Mambondiyani 15 Mar 2016

New law banning mining in Colombia’s moorlands could draw its first lawsuit

Ruxandra Guidi 15 Mar 2016

15 Bornean rhinos discovered in Kalimantan?

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 14 Mar 2016

Gold mining in Venezuela: a “perfect storm” of illegality, deforestation and mafias

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 11 Mar 2016

Will mining company drive mass extinction of Madagascar’s wildlife?

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Mar 2016

Indonesia’s antigraft agency strives to rein in the mining sector

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 27 Feb 2016

CEO and execs charged with homicide in Samarco dam collapse in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 25 Feb 2016

Peace agreements often ignore natural resources, report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Feb 2016

A new plan to pull the “forest giraffe” back from the brink of extinction

Mike Gaworecki 23 Feb 2016

Eight newly discovered species of whip spiders could soon become extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Feb 2016

Colombia bans mining in its moorlands

Ruxandra Guidi 11 Feb 2016

Illegal gold mining pushes deeper into protected Peruvian reserve

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Feb 2016

Drop in commodity prices isn’t necessarily helping indigenous peoples and the environment in Brazil

Carolina Torres 8 Feb 2016

New deforestation hotspot threatens southern Peru’s tremendous biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 2 Feb 2016

India has most cases of social and environmental conflict, according to environmental justice atlas

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Feb 2016

Imperiled Amazon freshwater ecosystems urgently need basin-wide study, management

Claire Salisbury 1 Feb 2016

Aceh citizens sue government to save Leuser Ecosystem

Cory Rogers 22 Jan 2016

Indonesia’s ore-smelting ambitions augur rain of poison in Sulawesi

Melati Kaye 19 Jan 2016

Mining company executives indicted in Brazil over the country’s largest environmental disaster

Jenny Gonzales 14 Jan 2016

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