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Organizations aim to block funds for East African oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2021

As Bahamas offshore project falls flat, oil driller island-hops across Caribbean

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Feb 2021
Woman maintaining fish trap in waist deep water near Mashare, Namibia. Image by Mp3ief via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Alarm as exploratory drilling for oil begins in northern Namibia

Jim Tan 28 Dec 2020

Indonesia’s biofuel bid threatens more deforestation for oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Dec 2020

In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice

Francesca García Delgado, Vanessa Romo 18 Dec 2020

Environmentalists seek to block Bahamas oil drilling bid near U.S. coast

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Dec 2020

Guyana’s future and challenges in oil: Q&A with filmmaker Shane Thomas McMillan

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2020

Peruvian Indigenous groups thwart oil drilling in their territory — for now

John Cannon 30 Oct 2020

More than 470 oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon since 2000: Report

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Oct 2020

Top award for Indigenous alliance is most recent in a series of wins for the Amazon

Sarah Sax 2 Oct 2020

TIME’s list of 100 most influential people in 2020 includes Indigenous Waorani leader

Kimberley Brown 24 Sep 2020

In Peru, self-reporting of oil spills by companies leaves an unknown toll

Karen de la Torre 18 Sep 2020

Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauritius, Panama regulator says

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2020

Mauritians take to the street over oil spill and dolphin and whale deaths

Malavika Vyawahare 1 Sep 2020

Mauritius’s plan to dump part of wrecked ship sparks controversy

Malavika Vyawahare 21 Aug 2020
Oil waste pit fire in Shushufindi in 1993 at a facility built by Texaco. Photo by Lou Dematteis

Don’t let Big Oil open a new front in its war on environmental defenders (commentary)

Steven Donziger 11 Aug 2020

Oil slick threatens Philippine mangrove forest recovering from earlier spill

Jun N. Aguirre 10 Jul 2020

Using technology, indigenous monitors in the Amazon combat environmental crime

Vanessa Romo 30 Jun 2020

Report names the banks financing destructive oil projects in the Amazon

Maurício Angelo 9 Jun 2020
Oil palm fruit in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Dayak women of Indonesia resist gender inequality exacerbated by palm oil production

Lauren Bowman 7 May 2020

Fracking effort closes in on impoverished Colombian communities

Mauricio Ochoa, Semana Sostenible 7 May 2020

Companies use COVID-19 to weaken standards, secure subsidies: Report

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2020

Decade after BP Deepwater Horizon spill, oil drilling is as dangerous as ever

Liz Kimbrough 20 Apr 2020

In a Colombian wetland, oil woes deepen with the arrival of fracking

Mauricio Ochoa, Semana Sostenible 15 Apr 2020

Brazilian government office responds to Fearnside’s BR-319 oil & gas commentary

Philip M. Fearnside 8 Apr 2020

Telling big environmental stories in a close-knit country (insider)

Carinya Sharples 6 Apr 2020
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Inside the fight to save the Niger Delta red colobus

Orji Sunday 31 Mar 2020

National parks pay the price as land conflicts intensify in Colombia

Taran Volckhausen 24 Mar 2020

Oil exploration at odds with peatland protection in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 23 Mar 2020

Response to one pandemic, COVID-19, has helped ease another: Air pollution

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2020

Peruvian women unite against toxic metals pollution (commentary)

Cecilia Niezen, Gloria Alvitres 12 Mar 2020

Complaint alleges oil company left Peru communities’ environment in ruins

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2020

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