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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
Hundreds of indigenous people from villages along River Marañon gathered at Saramuro, where Petroperu Station 1 is based, staging a protest against Petroperu and the government. Photo by Ann Wang

A photographer’s journey into a Peruvian oil spill

Ann Wang 3 Oct 2016

After game-changing Dakota Access decision, a look at Sioux strategy

Saul Elbein 14 Sep 2016

Negotiations and protests ongoing in wake of oil spills in Peruvian Amazon

Barbara Fraser 5 Sep 2016

Oil pipeline sparks fierce opposition among American tribes and farmers

Saul Elbein 29 Aug 2016

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Yet another oil spill strikes the Peruvian Amazon

Alexa Vélez 13 Aug 2016
Levita holds a layer of dried crude oil from her farmland along the Marañon River. Photo by Brett Monroe Garner.

Health concerns, food insecurity linger months after Peruvian oil spills

Kevin Floerke and Rebecca Wolff 25 Jul 2016
Andy Muñoz of the Marañón Defense Front watches crude drip from a stick he dipped into the stream. Photo by Barbara Fraser.

Communities brace for impact of Peruvian oil spill

Barbara Fraser 29 Jun 2016
Google Map showing location of Barranca, Peru.

Health officials in Peru: oil spill cleanup workers face ‘poisoning and burns’

Barbara Fraser 27 Jun 2016
Workers scoop oil out a stream near Chiriaco, in northern Peru, where crude spilled from a pipeline in late January. Photo by Barbara Fraser.

Amazon oil spill puts Peruvian communities at risk

Barbara Fraser, Milton López Tarabochia 26 Jun 2016

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

Shreya Dasgupta 20 May 2016

Company responsible for last year’s oil spill near Santa Barbara, California hit with criminal charges

Mike Gaworecki 17 May 2016

Lake Maracaibo: an oil development sacrifice zone dying from neglect

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 3 May 2016

Hundreds of baby dolphin deaths linked to BP oil spill

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Apr 2016

Another catastrophe: Ship carrying 1,235 metric tons of coal sinks in Sundarbans

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Mar 2016

An indigenous community takes hostages in an effort to draw attention to oil spill in Peru’s Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 8 Mar 2016

A month since the oil spill, Wampis indigenous peoples criticize PetroPeru’s negligence

Ruxandra Guidi 4 Mar 2016

Offshore drilling proposed in Belize’s spectacular marine areas

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 26 May 2015

Photos from the front: the California oil spill in pictures

Rebecca Kessler 21 May 2015

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

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 May 2015

9 months after Amazonian oil pipeline spill, effects and fears linger

Barbara Fraser 30 Mar 2015

Sundarbans still reeling from effects of December oil spill

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Jan 2015

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler 23 Dec 2014

Children ‘clean’ oil spill with kitchen utensils in the Sundarbans

Jeremy Hance 15 Dec 2014

What happened to the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster?

James Urton 24 Nov 2014

Peruvian oil spill sparks concern in indigenous rainforest community

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2014

By the bones: herring populations were superabundant before commercial fisheries

Nicholas Barrett 9 Jun 2014

Shell drops plans to drill in the Arctic for now

Jeremy Hance 30 Jan 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

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