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Peruvian presidential candidates spur concerns among environmentalists

Milton López Tarabochia 3 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

There are only three Saharan addax antelope left in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 6 May 2016

Lake Maracaibo: an oil development sacrifice zone dying from neglect

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 3 May 2016

Mexican conservation success threatened by wave of mining concessions

Martha Pskowski 29 Apr 2016

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

Mike Gaworecki 22 Apr 2016

Hundreds of baby dolphin deaths linked to BP oil spill

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Apr 2016

Big Oil has been covering up climate risks even longer than we thought

Mike Gaworecki 14 Apr 2016

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

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Apr 2016

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

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Mar 2016

Obama administration will not allow oil drilling off Atlantic coast

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Mar 2016

Indigenous rights win big against mining in Suriname

Ruxandra Guidi 10 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

Indigenous communities are forced to clean up a 3,000-barrel oil spill in Peru’s Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 26 Feb 2016

Oil exploration in Bolivia’s Amazon region goes on overdrive

Ruxandra Guidi 25 Feb 2016

Naomi Oreskes on climate change: “We’ve blown it… but pessimism is not acceptable”

Justin Catanoso 24 Feb 2016

Peace agreements often ignore natural resources, report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Feb 2016

Oil extraction threatens to expand further into Ecuadorean rainforest under new 20-year contract

Isabel Riofrio 3 Feb 2016
Chevron's Duri oil field in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

How does the global commodity collapse impact forest conservation?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Dec 2015

Ecuador condemned at the new Tribunal for the Rights of Nature in Paris

Karen Hoffmann 10 Dec 2015

It looks like we may be headed for a more ‘pro-animal’ future

Brittany Stewart 6 Nov 2015

BP oil spill may be causing failed pregnancies in dolphins

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Nov 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

River supplying Alberta oil sands operations with water at risk from drought

Mike Gaworecki 24 Sep 2015

Oil exploration plans in Argentine national park fuel local anger

Greg Norman 26 Aug 2015

Scientists discover new primate in the embattled heart of the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2015

Big Oil is the law on Waorani ancestral lands

Veronica Goyzueta 13 Aug 2015

Colombian reserve gets big expansion

Apoorva Joshi 10 Jul 2015

Bolivia opens protected areas to oil companies

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2015

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