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A PT IWIP worker walks through the cafeteria after work in early July 2025

Indonesia’s nickel boom linked to rising illness and worker harm, reports find

Rabul Sawal, Yulia Adiningsih 19 May 2026
Ed Singson shows off the seaweed in his bucket

Philippine fishing and Indigenous communities wary of clean energy boom in Marcos stronghold

Michael Beltran 18 May 2026

Who controls Indian Ocean tuna?

Mongabay.com 18 May 2026
Sand mining along the Mekong River

19,000 Great Pyramids a year: Report flags unsustainable rate of sand mining

Carolyn Cowan 18 May 2026

Tensions rise in DRC mining region as community leaders arrested over protest

Elodie Toto 15 May 2026

New energy deals for Africa sealed at Nairobi summit

David Akana 15 May 2026

In Thailand, burned sugarcane plantations become traps for leopard cat cubs

Ana Norman Bermúdez 15 May 2026

Canada aims to double its electric grid by 2050 with clean energy and lower costs for users

Associated Press 15 May 2026

After quinoa’s boom, Bolivian farmers face degraded soils and climate stress

Benjamin Swift 14 May 2026
A mudskipper with turquoise spots, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Egyptian teens use robots for ‘smarter and more responsive’ way to protect Earth

Victoria Schneider 14 May 2026
Sea pen in the South Arran MPA. Image © COAST/Howard Wood.

Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area

Shanna Hanbury 14 May 2026
Solar panels in Bali, Indonesia.

Solar brings power to women entrepreneurs in Borneo, but rural energy inequality remains

Yuda Almerio 14 May 2026

Africa secures major clean energy deals as France deepens investment push

Associated Press 13 May 2026
Kenyan President William Ruto speaks during an event at the recently-concluded Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi. Image courtesy of the Presidency of Kenya.

Kenya’s Ruto rejects “raw mineral export” future for Africa

David Akana 13 May 2026
A channel-billed toucan (Ramphastos vitellinus) in Yasuní National Park.

Ecuador failing to end Yasuní oil drilling: Interview with Waorani leader Juan Bay

Aimee Gabay 13 May 2026

In eastern Indonesia, communities revive customary systems to protect the seas

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 May 2026

Wetland destruction blamed for rise in croc attacks on Indonesia’s Bangka Island

Mongabay.com 13 May 2026

Agriculture drives most tropical peatland loss in Indonesia, Peru and DRC: Study

Bobby Bascomb 12 May 2026
Harvesters carry baskets full of grapes at Trinity Canyon Vineyards.

How grape farmers are restoring Armenia’s wine heritage while safeguarding ecosystems

Kushane Chobanyan 12 May 2026

Who are the women sustaining luxury fishing in Brazil’s Pantanal?

Mariana Rosetti, Paola Churchill 12 May 2026
Cattle ranching in Serra de Ricardo Franco State Park, Brazil. Image © Ednilson Aguiar/Greenpeace.

Nearly all climate claims by meat and dairy firms amount to greenwashing: Study

Shanna Hanbury 12 May 2026
Fredrick Njoroge Kariuki, left, and Miron Onsarigo, the Hewa Safi innovators. Image courtesy of Lemmuel Agina/The Earth Foundation.

Teen innovators in Kenya turn farm waste into award-winning vehicle exhaust filter

Malavika Vyawahare, Mary Mwendwa 12 May 2026

New Congo oil find highlights Africa’s energy paradox amid Hormuz crisis

Elodie Toto 11 May 2026

A law to help Bolivian farmers may actually increase land grabbing, critics warn

Maxwell Radwin 11 May 2026

Fossil fuel transition summit seeks progress beyond stalled COP talks

Aimee Gabay 11 May 2026

EU deforestation law risks leaving Honduran coffee farmers behind

Sandra Weiss 11 May 2026
Pair of flamingos in Marawah Marine Biosphere Reserve, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Image courtesy of Maitha Bughanoom.

Arabian Gulf’s fragile marine ecosystem threatened by current crisis (commentary)

Razan Al Mubarak 11 May 2026
Indigenous communities face changes to their ways of life due to the presence of illegal economies. Image courtesy of Amazon Watch.

Crime affects 32% of Amazon Indigenous areas, says study

Yvette Sierra Praeli 11 May 2026
Solar panels being installed on a roof of a house in Lagos, Nigeria. Image by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo.

New report questions Africa’s oil and gas promise

David Akana 8 May 2026

Paraguay expanded a reserve in the Gran Chaco. Why is deforestation still rising there?

Maxwell Radwin 8 May 2026
Indonesian rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Forests, fires and fragile gains: Interview with WRI’s Elizabeth Goldman

David Akana 8 May 2026
The Nimba mountain range as seen from southern Guinea. Image by Maarten van der Bent via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

In the Nimba Mountains, a film examines the paradox of mining-funded conservation

Ashoka Mukpo 8 May 2026

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