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Close shot of the face of a white-thighed colobus (Colobus vellerosus) with characteristic black face and white ruff, framed by green leaves in a forest at Brong Ahafo, Ghana. Image by César María Aguilar Gómez via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC)

Element Africa: Ghanaian communities challenge mining regulation and Shell spills more oil in the Niger Delta

Mongabay 1 Jul 2023
A boy with a fishing net stands on the crude oil-stained bank of a rift in the creek area in Niger Delta.

Spotlighting oil majors’ ‘ecocide’ of Niger Delta: Q&A with Michael J. Watts

Ashoka Mukpo 2 Jun 2023

Argentines try to stop oil and gas exploration off ‘The Happy’ tourist coast

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 25 May 2023
A youth leader demonstrates the impact of oil production on the local community.

As Shell, Eni quit Niger Delta, state-backed report describes legacy of carnage

Ashoka Mukpo 16 May 2023
Overhead shot of two men standing in shallow water, bent over repairing a large wooden canoe. Image by Bolaji Eiseke via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

For weary Niger Delta residents, shocking oil pollution report offers little hope

Ini Ekott 16 May 2023
Lagae and biofuel.

As Exxon bows out, industry takes step toward sustainable algae biofuels

Carly Nairn 9 May 2023
The Amazon River flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

Mouth of the Amazon oil exploration clashes with Lula’s climate promises

Sarah Brown 28 Apr 2023
Eduardo Mendúa

Indigenous leader assassinated amid conflict over oil that divided community

Ana Cristina Alvarado 17 Apr 2023

Ecuador banned gas flaring over a year ago. Why is it still happening?

Maxwell Radwin 12 Apr 2023

Element Africa: Gold in Ghana, oil in Nigeria, and fracking in South Africa

Mongabay.com 5 Apr 2023
Malocas (traditional longhouses) of Indigenous communities in isolation on the Peru-Brazil border. Image by ORPIO.

Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Mar 2023

‘Impact assessments need a shake-up’: Q&A with Georgine Kengne & Morgan Hauptfleisch

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2023

Climate change lawsuits take aim at French bank BNP Paribas

Maxwell Radwin 3 Mar 2023

Chinese investment continues to hurt Latin American ecosystems, report says

Maxwell Radwin 28 Feb 2023
Members of the Mulambwane community under a baobab tree.

Element Africa: The platinum ‘bully’ and the secret oil deal

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2023
Mount Namuli.

Forests & finance: Setbacks for a rare bat, and progress for an oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2023

Venezuela’s oil spill crisis reached new heights in 2022: report

Maxwell Radwin 20 Jan 2023
Acampamento Terra Livre Indigenous protest in Brazil, April 6, 2022. Image by Mídia NINJA Via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Top 10 notable Indigenous stories of 2022

Latoya Abulu 28 Dec 2022
Humberto Sánchez.

Shadows of oil in Peru: Shipibo people denounce damage, contamination left by company

Enrique Vera 26 Dec 2022
The blackened earth shows where banana trees used to be.

“Sinchiurco is coated with oil”: The Kichwa people going up against Petroecuador

Ana Cristina Alvarado 14 Dec 2022
Person holding cardboard sign saying Stop EACOP", concealing lower half of their face. Photothèque AT via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

As banks fund oil pipeline, campaigners question their environmental pledges

Thomas Lewton 1 Nov 2022

In the western Amazon, oil blocks eat away at Indigenous lands, protected areas

Yvette Sierra Praeli 24 Oct 2022
Tewe Dayuma Michela Conta, one of the girls kidnapped from the Tagaeri and Taromenane territory, speak during the trial. Image courtesy of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

First-ever regional court case involving rights of uncontacted peoples awaits verdict

Kimberley Brown 13 Oct 2022
Goat herders along a road in Muzarabani

Australian oil and gas firm Invictus awarded carbon offset project in Zimbabwe

Ryan Truscott 12 Oct 2022
A man in a boat in Bodo

Element Africa: Diamonds, oil, coltan, and more diamonds

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2022
A recently contacted Machiguenga girlon the outskirts of Manu National Park in Cusco. Image by Ronald Reategui.

Amazon reserve for uncontacted people moving forward amid battle over oil fields

Dimitri Selibas 30 Sep 2022
Achuar community members

Pluspetrol Norte: A history of unpaid sanctions and oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon

Gloria Alvitres 30 Sep 2022
A mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona), one of the many species that inhabit Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve. Image by AlexisENVN via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New oil refinery ‘a huge disaster’ for Nigerian forest reserve

Orji Sunday 20 Sep 2022

Fighting extractive industries in Ecuador: Q&A with Indigenous rights activist María Espinosa

Maxwell Radwin 22 Aug 2022

In Bolivian Amazon, oil blocks encroach deep into protected areas

Iván Paredes Tamayo 16 Aug 2022
CNES and Airbus satellite image of Petrolandia, Pernambuco, Brazil

From agribusiness to oil to nuclear power and submarines: welcome to anti-environmental Putin-Bolsonaro alliance (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 1 Aug 2022
Study co-author Corneille Ewango.

In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil

John Cannon 28 Jul 2022

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