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Canadian company positions for mining ban lift in Argentine province

John Cannon 11 May 2020
Yanomami community in northern Brazil saying ‘Go away, mining companies’. Image by Victor Moriyama/ISA.

The mining map: Who’s eyeing the gold on Brazil’s indigenous lands?

Agência Pública, Anna Beatriz Anjos, Bruno Fonseca, Ciro Barros, José Cícero da Silva, Rafael Oliveira, Thiago Domenici 7 May 2020

Flooding devastates Ecuador’s indigenous communities in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 1 May 2020

New database wrangles data on land rights projects around the globe

John Cannon 29 Apr 2020

Through biomimicry, Brazil seeks tech innovations inspired by nature

Sibélia Zanon 28 Apr 2020

Gold mining threatens indigenous forests in the Brazilian Amazon

John Cannon 8 Apr 2020

Oil exploration at odds with peatland protection in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 23 Mar 2020

Qualified success: What’s next for Peru’s Operation Mercury?

John Cannon 19 Mar 2020

Complaint alleges oil company left Peru communities’ environment in ruins

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2020

Mortgaging the future: Report details risks of resource-backed loans

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2020

Marginalized voices from resource conflicts enter the mainstream via video

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Feb 2020

In Sumatra, authorities fight a resurgence of illegal gold mining

Een Irawan Putra 10 Feb 2020

Healthy ecosystems, healthy humans: ‘One Health’ broadens its scope

John Cannon 7 Nov 2019

Decolonizing trees in a tropical city to nurture multi-cultural identity

Carinya Sharples 13 Sep 2019

In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

In a first, DRC communities gain legal rights to forests

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2018

In a land hit by the resource curse, a new gold mine spooks officials

Basten Gokkon 17 Jun 2018

In rural Indonesia, women spearhead the fight to protect nature

Lusia Arumingtyas 27 Dec 2017

Agroforestry boosts rice and biodiversity in India

Moushumi Basu 19 Dec 2017
A turtle at Shell Beach in Region 1 of Guyana. Photo courtesy of Guyana Marine Conservation Society.

Guyana seeks offshore oil wealth in a green economy

Carinya Sharples 21 Nov 2017

Sand mining ban lifted on beach in Suriname, causing public backlash

Rachel Fritts 27 Mar 2017

Papua New Guinea’s oil and gas boom – blessing or curse?

David Hutt 22 Dec 2016

Laws alone don’t stop companies from abandoning deadly mine pits in Indonesia

Yitno Suprapto 5 Oct 2016

Strongest drought in 25 years hits Bolivia

Miriam Telma Jemio 3 Oct 2016

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

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Mar 2016

Study finds local people do forest monitoring as well as scientists

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Oct 2015

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