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Congo Peatlands

Mongabay.com 21 Dec 2021

The past, present and future of the Congo peatlands: 10 takeaways from our series

John Cannon 16 Dec 2021

Oil highway bears down on uncontacted Indigenous groups in Ecuador’s Yasuní

Kimberley Brown 15 Dec 2021

First Nations unite to fight industrial exploitation of Australia’s Martuwarra

Nick Rodway 14 Dec 2021

Carbon and communities: The future of the Congo Basin peatlands

John Cannon 14 Dec 2021

Indigenous communities in South Africa sue, protest off-shore oil and gas exploration

Victoria Schneider 10 Dec 2021

Holding agriculture and logging at bay in the Congo peatlands

John Cannon 9 Dec 2021

Layers of carbon: The Congo Basin peatlands and oil

John Cannon 7 Dec 2021

Off West Africa’s coast, a sea of oil spills goes unreported

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Dec 2021

The ‘idea’: Uncovering the peatlands of the Congo Basin

John Cannon 2 Dec 2021

Ecuador’s consultation process for Indigenous lands comes under the microscope

Kimberley Brown 4 Nov 2021

A new 100-page report raises alarm over Chevron’s impact on planet

Genevieve Belmaker, Laurel Sutherland 28 Oct 2021

BR-319 highway hearings: An attack on Brazil’s interests and Amazonia’s future (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 26 Oct 2021

Study chronicles dying of a lake in PNG with advent of oil & gas activities

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Oct 2021

Keep polar bears and their extensive range safe from oil drilling (Commentary)

Steve Blackledge and Dyani Chapman 8 Oct 2021

Oil pipeline on Native lands ramps up as Canada honors its Indigenous people

Latoya Abulu 30 Sep 2021

Nearly 1 million km2 of intact forests menaced by extractives, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jul 2021

A year after Ecuador oil spill, Indigenous victims await justice, reparations

Vincent Ricci 29 Apr 2021
Azura Quilalea

Gas fields and jihad: Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado becomes a resource-rich war zone

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Apr 2021
Image of a female lion with wildebeest kill in Tanzania. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Total’s East African oil pipeline to go ahead despite stiff opposition

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Apr 2021

‘Like losing half the territory.’ Waorani struggle with loss of elder, and of land to oil (commentary)

Danilo Borja | Juan Bay | Conny Davidsen 23 Mar 2021
Bernadette Demientieff at a protest.

“Our identity is non negotiable” says Gwich’in leader Bernadette Demientieff

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Mar 2021

As Bahamas offshore project falls flat, oil driller island-hops across Caribbean

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Feb 2021

Fewer than 100 of these giant whales make up a newly described species

Teresa L. Carey 4 Feb 2021

Environmentalists seek to block Bahamas oil drilling bid near U.S. coast

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Dec 2020

Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside; Lucas Ferrante; Aurora M. Yanai; and Marcos Antonio Isaac Júnior 24 Nov 2020

Guyana’s future and challenges in oil: Q&A with filmmaker Shane Thomas McMillan

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2020

Peruvian Indigenous groups thwart oil drilling in their territory — for now

John Cannon 30 Oct 2020

Report names the banks financing destructive oil projects in the Amazon

Maurício Angelo 9 Jun 2020

Triple crisis of pipelines, pesticides and pandemic is an existential threat to Ecuador’s indigenous peoples (commentary)

Mitch Anderson 5 Jun 2020
Oil palm fruit in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Dayak women of Indonesia resist gender inequality exacerbated by palm oil production

Lauren Bowman 7 May 2020

Decade after BP Deepwater Horizon spill, oil drilling is as dangerous as ever

Liz Kimbrough 20 Apr 2020

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