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Oil and gas project threatens Brazil’s last great block of Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 9 Mar 2020

Tanker identified as possible Brazil oil spill perpetrator

Zoe Sullivan 22 Nov 2019

Nearly three months after Brazil oil spill, origins remain uncertain

Zoe Sullivan 18 Nov 2019

Colombian town faces earthquakes, pollution, water shortage as industry expands

Álvaro Avendaño, Diana Velasco 8 Nov 2019

Companies ‘disregard responsibility’ over conflict minerals: Report

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2019

$65 million deal to protect Congo’s forests raises concerns

John Cannon 14 Oct 2019

Saving an island from the worst oil spill in the Philippines: The case of Guimaras

Arnel Murga 11 Oct 2019
Beira residents carrying belongings wade through flooded street in Beira.

When rich economies cut emissions, poor ones stand to benefit, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Aug 2019

Africa’s largest reserve may lose half its area to oil development

Stephen Leahy 2 Aug 2019

Indonesia investigates oil spill in Java Sea by state energy company

Basten Gokkon 31 Jul 2019

Congo government opens Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park to oil exploration

John Cannon 18 Jul 2019

Complicating the narrative about indigenous communities and their struggles (insider)

Kimberley Brown 18 Jul 2019

Heart of Ecuador’s Yasuni, home to uncontacted tribes, opens for oil drilling

Kimberley Brown 5 Jul 2019

Peruvian communities demanding crude cleanup brace for more oil activity

Barbara Fraser 14 Jun 2019
Red-billed tropicbird (Phaeton aethereus) at Abrolhos Marine National Park. Image by Mia Morete via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Brazil green-lights oil prospecting near important marine park

Thais Borges 31 May 2019

Ecuador’s isolated indigenous tribes: Stuck between oil and state neglect

Isabela Ponce 24 May 2019

New report examines drivers of rising Amazon deforestation on country-by-country basis

Mongabay.com 23 May 2019

Meet the winners of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Apr 2019

Indonesia oil slicks highlight weak enforcement against bilge dumping

Basten Gokkon 5 Apr 2019
Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands, where the oil spill occurred. Image courtesy of Google Earth. 

Solomon Islands: Oil stops spilling but environmental toll still being calculated

Catherine Wilson 2 Apr 2019
A child receives clean drinking water from a rain catchment tank in Aboquehuira, a village of the Siona indigenous people whose traditional water source is contaminated. Image by Dan Collyns for Mongabay.

With no oil cleanup in sight, Amazon tribes harvest rain for clean water

Dan Collyns 27 Dec 2018

Environment and rights founder in the wake of Chinese funding in Bolivia

Yvette Sierra Praeli 27 Dec 2018
The Mozambique Channel off the west coast of Madagascar. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Madagascar auctioning a large swath of virgin waters for oil exploration

Edward Carver 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Fossil Fuel Inc.’s outsize presence at talks reflects its influence

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Dec 2018

Brazilian regulators deny French oil giant Total license to drill near Amazon Reef

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2018

Trump Admin moves closer to authorizing oil and gas exploration off the Atlantic coast

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2018
A secret oil access road built within Block 31 of Yasuni National Park, one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. Photo © Ivan Kashinsky.

Climate leadership means keeping fossil fuels in the ground in tropical forests and beyond (commentary)

Leila Salazar-López 7 Sep 2018

In Ecuador, a pipeline cuts a trail of misery through indigenous land

José María León Cabrera 9 Aug 2018

Shadow companies and the Indonesian land crisis

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jul 2018

DRC set to reclassify national parks for oil, open rainforest to logging

John Vidal 19 Jul 2018

Extractive industries threaten a million square kilometers of intact tropical forests around the globe

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2018

Latam Eco Review: Paddington Bear Captured on Camera in Peru

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2018

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