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Peruvian Amazon: Wounds remain after 50 years of oil spills on Achuar land

How Canada’s growing presence in Latin America is hurting the environment

Amazonian Indigenous leaders call for 80×2025 at Climate Week (commentary)

Hundreds of oil spill sites threaten Amazon Indigenous lands, protected areas

Oil and gas exploration threatens Bolivian Chaco water supply

Ecuador referendum halts oil extraction in Yasuní National Park

Energy company evades oil clean up as spills continue to contaminate Colombian town

The oil debt: More than 6,000 polluted sites fester across Amazonian countries

The endless struggle to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s highly polluted Guanabara Bay

On Indonesia’s Seram Island, a massive oil find lies beneath sacred land

Offshore oil plans in Brazil threaten South America’s largest coral reef

Element Africa: A ‘disaster’ pipeline, an oil-field spill, and a mining pit tragedy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Indigenous leader assassinated amid conflict over oil that divided community

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

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

Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections

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

Climate change lawsuits take aim at French bank BNP Paribas

Chinese investment continues to hurt Latin American ecosystems, report says

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

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

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

Top 10 notable Indigenous stories of 2022

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

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

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