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Nigerian president’s bid to resume oil drilling in Ogoniland a ‘betrayal,’ groups say

Malavika Vyawahare 3 Feb 2025
An oilfield location in Muanda early in the morning.

DRC orders environmental, operational audits of oil company Perenco

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Jan 2025

Experts question benefits of Colombian forestation project led by top oil trader

Carla Ruas 23 Dec 2024

The fuel that moves people: the Ecuadorian case

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Dec 2024

European Commission to review Greek oil activity permits in whale habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Dec 2024
Advocates of next-gen geothermal note that using already-designed oil and gas industry technology can bring socioeconomic benefits, allowing fossil fuel industry personnel to be retrained to work for the renewables industry.

Next-gen geothermal offers circular promise, but needs care and caution

Sean Mowbray 18 Dec 2024

Deadlocked plastic treaty talks will lead to renewed negotiations in 2025

Charles Pekow 10 Dec 2024

Climate financing should come from oil and gas ‘super’ profits, study says

Maxwell Radwin 2 Dec 2024

Legal battle against controversial oil pipeline faces another setback

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Nov 2024
People clean up plastic trash at a beach in Bali, Indonesia.

Plastic pollution pushing Earth past all nine planetary boundaries: Report

Alden Wicker 25 Nov 2024
A bottlenose dolphin.

Microplastics are sickening and killing wildlife, disrupting Earth systems

Sharon Guynup 21 Nov 2024
Workers sort through discared plastic in Bangladesh.

The plastics crisis is now a global human health crisis, experts say

Alden Wicker 19 Nov 2024

Fresh calls for oil giants to pay $12 billion for Niger Delta pollution

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Nov 2024

Coral biodiversity hotspot at risk from fossil fuel expansion, report warns

Ashley Yeong 13 Nov 2024

Indigenous leader freed after Canada pipeline protest ban conviction

Shanna Hanbury 17 Oct 2024
Lioness in Tanzania. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

NGOs urge banks and China to refuse support for Ugandan oil projects

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Oct 2024

CHAPTER 6. Culture and demographics defines the Pan Amazon’s present

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Sep 2024
Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). Image by Lucy Keith-Diagne via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

NGOs raise concerns over oil exploration in Republic of Congo national park

Didier Makal 24 Sep 2024

Ugandan oil project linked with massive human rights abuses: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Sep 2024

Six months after first Houthi ship sinking, attacks slick Red Sea with oil

Elizabeth Fitt 2 Sep 2024
A channel-billed toucan in Yasuní National Park.

Could the ‘rights of nature’ save Yasuní and keep its oil in the ground? (commentary)

Mari Margil, Hugo Echeverría 29 Aug 2024

The challenge of the next oil and gas investments further in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Aug 2024

The indelible traces of oil and gas in the Peruvian, Ecuadorian and Colombian Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Aug 2024

One year after oil referendum, what’s next for Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park?

Aimee Gabay 20 Aug 2024

Petroperú’s financial troubles could mean no oil spill remediation, communities fear

Aimee Gabay 15 Aug 2024
Aerial photo of the environmental conditions caused by an illegal crude oil well exploding in Pasir Putih village, East Aceh Regency, on 26 Apr., 2018.

Sumatran province brings hammer down on illegal oil wells after fatal blasts

Taufik Wijaya 15 Aug 2024

Oil and gas expansion threatens Peru’s isolated Indigenous peoples

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Aug 2024
A man walks past solar panels.

No plans, no progress make Peru’s energy transition uncertain

Yvette Sierra Praeli 1 Aug 2024
An elephant standing in knee-high grass somewhere in Murchison Falls NP, Uganda, wearing a half-dozen black birds on its back and head. Image by Travel Aficionado via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Advocacy group links Uganda oil infrastructure to human-elephant conflict

Musinguzi Blanshe 30 Jul 2024

Conservationists look for new ways to fight oil pipelines in southern Mexico

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jul 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Venezuela’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jul 2024
Tar sands developments along the Athabasca River in Alberta, British Columbia.

A year after toxic tar sands spill, questions remain for affected First Nation

Ruth Kamnitzer 16 Jul 2024

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