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Building back Miami’s Biscayne Bay: Do natural solutions hold hope?

Marlowe Starling 14 Jul 2021

Climate change isn’t fueling algal blooms the way we think, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jun 2021

New Attenborough film sounds alarm on planetary boundaries, but offers hope

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2021

The nine boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet habitable

Claire Asher 30 Mar 2021

Hawaiian reefs lost almost half their fish to pollution and fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Sep 2020
Image by ilustrativa/John Lambeth/Pexels

For European chemical giants, Brazil is an open market for toxic pesticides banned at home

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 10 Sep 2020

Brazil’s native bees are vital for agriculture, but are being killed by it

Sibélia Zanon 1 Jun 2020

Tax exemptions on pesticides in Brazil add up to US$ 2.2 billion per year

Mariana Della Barba and Diego Junqueira from Repórter Brasil and Pedro Grigori from Agência Pública 1 Apr 2020

Companies leave communities to grapple with mining’s persistent legacy

John Cannon 28 Feb 2020

Past and future tropical dams devastating to fish the world over: Study

Asher Elbein 21 Feb 2020

Half a billion bees dead as Brazil approves hundreds more pesticides

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 23 Aug 2019

Madeira River dams may spell doom for Amazon’s marathon catfish: Studies

Text by Gustavo Faleiros and images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 25 Mar 2019
The mudslide near Brumadinho via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Dam holding mining waste collapses in Brazil

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2019

Global marine wilderness has dwindled to 13 percent, new map reveals

John Cannon 26 Jul 2018

In Bali fish die-offs, researchers spot a human hand

Luh De Suriyani 22 Mar 2018

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Claire Salisbury 13 Mar 2018

Mesoamerican Reef gets improving bill of health

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2018

Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses

Claire Salisbury 10 Jan 2018

Global warming, pollution supersize the oceans’ oxygen-depleted dead zones

Basten Gokkon 9 Jan 2018

Andes dams could threaten food security for millions in Amazon basin

Claire Asher 19 Sep 2017

NOAA announces largest-ever Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Aug 2017

Study: Brazilian mega-dams caused far more flooding than EIA predicted

Claire Salisbury 5 Jul 2017

International action a must to stop irreversible harm of Amazon dams, say experts

Claire Salisbury 19 Jun 2017
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus. Photo by Jason Hollinger.

New lichen database takes big picture approach to forest monitoring

Amy McDermott 22 May 2017

Nitrogen pollution slows down forest decomposers

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Mar 2017

Rio Olympic organizers fail to meet all environmental goals

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jul 2016

Too much of a good thing: fertilizer ‘one of the three major drivers of biodiversity loss this century’

Paul Sutherland 14 Jul 2014

Measuring nutrient pollution in pristine waters: Puerto Rico’s Vieques Island

Jeremy Hance 10 Dec 2012

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