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‘Where do you draw the line?’: Q&A with director of documentary about Amazonian community fighting oil extraction

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2016

New talks on oil pollution could end indigenous blockade of Amazonian river in Peru

Barbara Fraser 9 Nov 2016

Another pipeline spill reported in Peruvian Amazon as indigenous protests enter eighth week

Barbara Fraser 25 Oct 2016

Mongabay Newscast episode 3: Crucial conservation votes at CITES CoP17 and the future of socio-ecological research

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2016
Tiputini River in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadoran Amazon. Photo by Jeremy Hance

Exclusive: New satellite images show Ecuador drilling in Yasuni’s ITT

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2016

U.S. imports of Amazon crude oil driving expansion of oil operations

Mike Gaworecki 30 Sep 2016
Flowers in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo by Jeremy Hance

Ecuador begins pumping oil from famed ITT-block in Yasuní

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2016

Shell spills 88,200 gallons of oil into Gulf of Mexico

Shreya Dasgupta 20 May 2016

Lake Maracaibo: an oil development sacrifice zone dying from neglect

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 3 May 2016

Scientists just discovered an Amazon reef system in an area targeted for oil exploration

Mike Gaworecki 22 Apr 2016

Half of World Heritage Sites threatened by ‘harmful industrial activities’, new report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Apr 2016

Obama administration will not allow oil drilling off Atlantic coast

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Mar 2016

Belize bans offshore oil drilling along barrier reef system

Sandra Cuffe 18 Dec 2015

Oil roads to ecological ruin: Ecuador’s bushmeat and wildlife trade

Sean Mowbray 29 Oct 2015

Hip hop to fight climate change?

Brittany Stewart 17 Oct 2015

Shell ends Arctic oil bid

Rebecca Kessler 28 Sep 2015

Oil-spill expert calls for more baseline oceans data on industry dime

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2015

Oil exploration plans in Argentine national park fuel local anger

Greg Norman 26 Aug 2015

Indonesian tycoon bears responsibility for devastating mud volcano, contends new research

Mongabay.com 1 Jul 2015

Offshore drilling proposed in Belize’s spectacular marine areas

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 26 May 2015

U.S. gov’t gives conditional approval for offshore Arctic drilling

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 May 2015

The Amazon’s oil boom: concessions cover a Chile-sized bloc of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2015

What happened to the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster?

James Urton 24 Nov 2014

Deforestation ramping up in Yasuni as Ecuador sets to open up national park to drilling

Shaira Panela 29 Jul 2014

Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining and fossil fuel investment

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2014

Oil, wildlife, and people: competing visions of development collide in Virunga National Park

Analysis Daniel Stiles 7 Jul 2014

What does SOCO’s withdrawal really mean for the future of Virunga National Park?

Analysis Daniel Stiles 17 Jun 2014

Extractive industries and apes

Daniel Stiles 13 Jun 2014

Stolen information may derail Yasuni drilling referendum

Robin Llewellyn 30 Apr 2014

A series of oil spills sully Caribbean paradise, coating mangroves and wildlife (photos)

Jeremy Hance 29 Jan 2014

World first: Russia begins pumping oil from Arctic seabed

Jeremy Hance 23 Dec 2013

Could camera trap videos galvanize the world to protect Yasuni from oil drilling?

Jeremy Hance 7 Nov 2013

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