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‘Right to roam’ movement fights to give the commons back to the public

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 21 May 2024

Guyana road projects spark concerns for future development on wetlands

Maxwell Radwin 21 May 2024

Global markets and their effects on resource exploitation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 May 2024

Top brands buy Amazon carbon credits from suspected timber laundering scam

Fernanda Wenzel 21 May 2024
Forest clearing for nickel mining on Wawonii Island.

Critics see payback in Indonesia’s plan to grant mining permits to religious groups

Irfan Maulana 21 May 2024
Green Phenix artist Erwin Sprot with one of his creations, a human figure made with beer crown caps.

Can the circular economy help the Caribbean win its war against waste?

Sandra Weiss 20 May 2024

Organized crime puts unprecedented pressure on Guatemala’s largest rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 20 May 2024
Xayaburi Dam

Banks backing Mekong hydropower failing on due diligence, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 20 May 2024

Amplifying Indigenous voices at the global level: Interview with Dario Mejía Montalvo

Dimitri Selibas 20 May 2024
Fishermen in Dakar, Senegal.

To renew or not to renew? African nations reconsider EU fishing deals

Edward Carver 17 May 2024

Bird populations are mysteriously declining at an Amazon park in Ecuador & beyond

Bernardo Araujo 16 May 2024
Oil refinery smokestacks along the Athabasca River, in northern Alberta, Canada.

Canada oil sands air pollution 20-64 times worse than industry says: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 16 May 2024

‘Weather whiplash’ cycles of floods & droughts imperil Nigerian farming

Tarinipre Francis 15 May 2024

Environmental defenders paid the price during Panama’s historic mining protests – report

Maxwell Radwin 14 May 2024

Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition

Didier Makal 14 May 2024

Mexico Indigenous community makes strides to land rights, but obstacles remain

Astrid Arellano 14 May 2024
Walhi's action to reject plans to build a nuclear power plant in West Kalimantan in front of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources

Indonesia civil society groups raise concerns over proposed Borneo nuclear reactor

Irfan Maulana 14 May 2024

African health experts warn of climate change & rising vector-borne diseases

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 13 May 2024
An Iranian cheetah.

Final cheetah conservationists freed in Iran, but the big cat’s outlook remains grim

Kayleigh Long 13 May 2024

Brazil takes pioneering action — and a vaccine — to rewild howler monkeys

Bernardo Araujo 10 May 2024
A climate change protest in the U.S. in 2017.

Experts highlight importance of ‘prebunking’ to combat climate disinformation

Choki Wangmo 10 May 2024
Voters in West Bengal's Dinhata constituency, adjacent to Bangladesh, in 2016.

From polling stations to weather stations, the heat is on in India (commentary)

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 9 May 2024
Indigenous farmer in Cambodia

Rights groups call for greater public input in ASEAN environmental rights framework

Carolyn Cowan 8 May 2024
Microplastics

Scientists explore nature’s promise in combating plastic waste

Claire Asher 8 May 2024
Egrets at a landfill in Riau.

As plastic talks wrap up in Canada, fishers in Indonesia count the costs

Falahi Mubarok, Yogi Eka Sahputra 8 May 2024

The Narwhal makes waves in Canada for environmental journalism

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 7 May 2024

Indigenous leader’s killer is convicted in Brazil, but tensions over land remain

Sarah Brown 7 May 2024
The plastic pollution art installation outside Ottawa's Shaw Centre where the summit took place.

At its fourth summit, 170 nations strive toward a global plastics treaty by 2025

Charles Pekow 7 May 2024

Pro-business parties accused of holding back Indonesia’s Indigenous rights bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 May 2024
Indigenous people with sled dogs in Greenland.

Plastic pollution talks end & Arctic peoples return home to a ‘sink’ of plastic

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 7 May 2024

Indonesia resumes lobster larvae exports despite sustainability, trade concerns

Basten Gokkon 7 May 2024

‘Our rights are on trial in Brazil’: Interview with Indigenous movement pioneer Brasílio Priprá

Amanda Magnani 6 May 2024

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