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A Kawahiva indigenous man fleetingly caught on film.

Promise of full demarcation for isolated Amazon tribe rings hollow for some

Aimee Gabay 11 Jan 2024
Bottom trawler Ivan Nores

Spain sanctions fishing vessels for illegally ‘going dark’ near Argentine waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Jan 2024

U.S. mining companies leave lasting trail of contamination across Peru

Roberth Orihuela 10 Jan 2024
Army officers try to extinguish fires in peatland areas in Central Kalimantan.

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2024
Tail of sperm whale in Norway

‘Really a sad day’ as Norway votes to allow deep-sea mining in Arctic waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Jan 2024

Forest restoration planned for Colombia’s Farallones de Cali National Park

Maxwell Radwin 9 Jan 2024

Aigamo method: using ducks as rice farmers

Romi Castagnino 9 Jan 2024
Fishing boats in Seno de Última Esperanza (Last Hope Sound), in southern Chile. Image by Robert Nunn via Flickr.

Chile again rejects Constitution rewrite; experts say no big loss for environment

Boris van der Spek 9 Jan 2024

Reversing progress, Indonesia pulp & paper drives up deforestation rates again

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2024
Unregulated gold mining on a river in, Nowshera, Pakistan. Image courtesy of Sabir Hussain.

Illegal gold mining threatens Indus River water and biodiversity in Pakistan (commentary)

Sabir Hussain 9 Jan 2024

Xingu waters: source of life at risk in the Brazilian Amazon

Ricardo Teles 8 Jan 2024
Smooth-coated otter

Camera-traps help identify conservation needs of Thailand’s coastal otters

Carolyn Cowan 8 Jan 2024

Palm oil giants push out smallholders in Guatemala; deforestation risks remain

Shanna Hanbury 8 Jan 2024
An adult and juvenile gharial on a riverbank.

Conservation ‘setback’ looms as Nepal opens protected areas to hydropower projects

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Jan 2024

Extreme drought in western Pará pushes family farmers into agroforestry

Sibélia Zanon (text) and Julia Lima (video and photos) 4 Jan 2024
Sumber Makmur Farmers’ Collective's seed nursery.

Sumatra coffee farmers brew natural fertilizer as inflation bites

Themmy Doaly 4 Jan 2024
A black bear fishes for salmon.

Salmon and other migratory fish play crucial role in delivering nutrients

Ruth Kamnitzer 3 Jan 2024

In Brazil’s Caatinga, adapted agroforests are producing food from dry lands

Xavier Bartaburu 3 Jan 2024
Rubber duckies

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

Alden Wicker 2 Jan 2024

Illegal gold mining devastates Peruvian Amazon river and communities

Enrique Vera 2 Jan 2024

Study: Fishing with pesticides and dynamite puts Ecuadorian Amazon in peril

Mark Hillsdon 2 Jan 2024
A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous Gurung farmers revive climate-resilient millet in Nepal

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Jan 2024

Extreme drought in the Brazilian Amazon forces small farmers to look for alternatives

Julia Lima 29 Dec 2023
A sarus crane flies over an agricultural field.

Nepal’s birds pay cost for country’s infrastructure development

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Dec 2023
At a mining site in Uis, Namibia.

Report: Rush for ‘clean energy’ minerals in Africa risks repeating harmful extractivist model

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Dec 2023
Indigenous elder of the Pataxó tribe in Brazil. Photo credit: Brastock Images. Licensed via Adobe Photo Stock

2023’s top 10 Indigenous news stories (commentary)

Joan Carling, Joseph Itongwa, Juan Carlos Jintiach 28 Dec 2023

In Brazil’s Caatinga, these families excel in farming productivity

Rafael Martins 28 Dec 2023
Bigai Reserve in the Western Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Top stories of change from Latin America in 2023

Alexandra Popescu 28 Dec 2023
Indonesia is a top producer of coconut oil.

Indonesian districts trial a shift from commodity monocrops to sustainable produce

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2023
Oil palm plantation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler

A decade of stopping deforestation: How the palm oil industry did the seemingly impossible (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 27 Dec 2023
Activists protesting at Glencore's coal mining site in Cerrejón, Colombia.

Reports allege abuses by Glencore in Peru and Colombia, and the banks funding them

Aimee Gabay 27 Dec 2023
One of the six newly described chameleons from Tanzania

Photos: Top species discoveries from 2023

Liz Kimbrough 27 Dec 2023

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