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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
A community member carries mangrove seedlings to be planted. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.

Oil spills, logging and invasive species threaten Niger Delta mangroves

Orji Sunday 18 Nov 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
A protest held in the Yankuntich community

Amazonian communities in Peru try to keep oil-rich Block 64 in their own hands

Gloria Alvitres 7 Jul 2022

How Colombia disenfranchised Indigenous Inga communities in favor of oil

Cuestión Pública, Mongabay Latam 2 Jun 2022

Stained by oil: A history of spills and impunity in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo, Vanessa Romo 23 May 2022

The price of oil spills in Peru and Colombia? Millions of dollars in fines

Cristina Fernández Aguilar 20 May 2022

Oil exploration in DR Congo peatland risks forests, climate and local communities

Lawon Olalekan 16 May 2022

‘They died from the spill: The animals that couldn’t escape Peru’s oil slick

Michelle Carrere 6 May 2022
In 2019, Adiela Mera Paz was the first female mayor of the Siona people’s Buenavista Guard in Putumayo. She is now 39 years old and coordinates the guard that protects the territory. Image courtesy of Adiela Mera.

“We are on the front line”: Q&A with Indigenous land defender Adiela Jineth Mera Paz

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 5 May 2022
Deforestation frontier in Jaru, Brazil

Putin’s financial interest in Brazil’s Amazon highways (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 4 May 2022
Lithium evaporation ponds in Salar de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile. Source: NASA. Image processing by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Contorted energy politics of the Ukraine crisis (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 27 Apr 2022

For Indonesians, palm oil is everywhere but on supermarket shelves

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2022
A bird rescued from the oil spill is cared for by personnel from the national wildlife agency, SERFOR. Image courtesy of SERFOR.

Oil spill contaminates wildlife, beaches and protected areas in Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 25 Mar 2022

Indigenous communities in Ecuador struggle with the aftermath of another oil spill

Diego Cazar Baquero 18 Mar 2022
Fishers standing amongst beached boats, holding up bunches of fish at Velddrif with 'bokkom' — dried harders. Image by South Africa Tourism via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Latest seismic survey blocked in South Africa court on fishers’ challenge

Victoria Schneider 2 Mar 2022

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