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TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG Afungi Park construction site. Image courtesy of Justiça Ambiental.

UK, Dutch agencies pull funding from Total’s controversial Mozambique LNG project

Victoria Schneider 10 Dec 2025
People displaced by fighting in Cabo Delgado province, where Palma is located. Image courtesy of Mauricio Bisol/UNICEF.

TotalEnergies faces criminal complaint in France over alleged massacre in Mozambique

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Nov 2025

Offshore fossil fuel exploration jeopardizes Brazil’s climate leadership, study says

Lucas Berti 18 Nov 2025
A coral grouper in a Mozambique coral reef.

Construction of TotalEnergies pipeline cuts through coral reefs in Mozambique

Victoria Schneider 18 Nov 2025
A hill in the main Karoo Basin, near the area where exploration would take place. Image by flowcomm via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

South Africa to lift fracking moratorium in Karoo Basin, despite concerns

Victoria Schneider 17 Nov 2025
Construction site of the TotalEnergies-operated Afungi LNG plant. Image courtesy of Justiça Ambiental.

TotalEnergies moves to restart Mozambique LNG project despite security, eco concerns

Victoria Schneider 13 Nov 2025
Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo stands next to an oil spill near Shushufindi

These banks fund oil & gas in the Amazon amid climate crisis: Report

Constance Malleret 4 Nov 2025
An Eskom power station in South Africa's Mpumalanga province. Image courtesy of Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp (CCBY-ND4.0).

South Africa court halts natural gas power plant project, cites climate commitments

Victoria Schneider 20 Oct 2025

Canada’s prime minister discussed reviving contentious Keystone XL pipeline with Trump

Associated Press 9 Oct 2025
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

MPs across Latin America unite to stop fossil fuels in the Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 9 Oct 2025
A depiction of a gas flare in Putumayo, Columbia. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

Despite pledge, Colombia still has ways to expand Amazon oil exploration

Maxwell Radwin 29 Aug 2025
The First Gen tanker off the shores of Santa Clara, October, 2024.

Philippine fishers struggle as LNG ‘superhighway’ cuts through biodiversity hotspot

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2025
Joseph Vargas and Wilma Abanil in their home

As gas giants move in, Philippine fishers fight for their seas and survival

Nick Aspinwall 29 Jul 2025
A member of the U’wa Indigenous group in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

U’wa people await implementation of landmark court ruling against Colombian gov’t

Antonio José Paz Cardona 11 Jul 2025
Oil in Amazon

Unnoticed oil & gas threat looms for Indigenous people near Amazon blocks

Fernanda Wenzel 6 Jun 2025
Exploratory oil drilling in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Colin Dunlop.

Why Brazil should abandon its plans for oil and gas in Amazonia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 5 Jun 2025
The sun sets New York City. Lengthy record-setting heat waves can be costly, greatly increasing ozone and other air pollutants, resulting in deaths and hospitalizations, while also straining energy grids, transportation networks and water supplies. Image by Johannes Plenio (@jplenio) via Unsplash.

Science lays out framework to assess climate liability of fossil fuel majors

Justin Catanoso 9 May 2025

Indonesia’s gas bet poses risks for economy, health and climate

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 May 2025
protests Mexico

Sheinbaum’s energy agenda under fire as Mexican activists slam LNG megaproject

Joshua Collins, Daniela Díaz 15 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
Fishermen returning from their fishing trip in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Image by Elodie Toto/Mongabay.

Gas leak from BP platform off West Africa worries fishermen, environmentalists

Elodie Toto 13 Mar 2025
Suyono shows his biogas reactor surrounded by plants.

Chauffeur at Indonesia energy nonprofit drives uptake of biogas by Java farmers

Toto Sudiarjo 13 Mar 2025
Advocates of next-gen geothermal note that using already-designed oil and gas industry technology can bring socioeconomic benefits, allowing fossil fuel industry personnel to be retrained to work for the renewables industry.

Next-gen geothermal offers circular promise, but needs care and caution

Sean Mowbray 18 Dec 2024
People clean up plastic trash at a beach in Bali, Indonesia.

Plastic pollution pushing Earth past all nine planetary boundaries: Report

Alden Wicker 25 Nov 2024
A bottlenose dolphin.

Microplastics are sickening and killing wildlife, disrupting Earth systems

Sharon Guynup 21 Nov 2024
Workers sort through discared plastic in Bangladesh.

The plastics crisis is now a global human health crisis, experts say

Alden Wicker 19 Nov 2024
Aerial photo of the environmental conditions caused by an illegal crude oil well exploding in Pasir Putih village, East Aceh Regency, on 26 Apr., 2018.

Sumatran province brings hammer down on illegal oil wells after fatal blasts

Taufik Wijaya 15 Aug 2024
A man walks past solar panels.

No plans, no progress make Peru’s energy transition uncertain

Yvette Sierra Praeli 1 Aug 2024

Conservationists look for new ways to fight oil pipelines in southern Mexico

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jul 2024

Weak banking regulations leave two-thirds of Amazon vulnerable to oil and gas

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jun 2024
The LNG carrier Shahamah in Uraga Channel, Japan.

U.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts say

Shanna Hanbury 27 Feb 2024
Rubber duckies

As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two

Alden Wicker 2 Jan 2024

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