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In Brazil, evicted Indigenous residents fight to reclaim their community

Ana Ionova 1 Mar 2022

Climate change a threat to human well-being and health of the planet: New IPCC report

John Cannon 28 Feb 2022

‘I am pro-mining’: Indigenous opposition to Philippine mine project falters

Bong S. Sarmiento 28 Feb 2022

Threatened wetlands in Paraguay’s Lake Ypacaraí raise legal questions

Maxwell Radwin 25 Feb 2022

More coffee, less gold: Sumatra farmers alarmed over revival of mine project

Junaidi Hanafiah 24 Feb 2022
lithium mine

At a disputed Native massacre site, tribes brace for a new, lithium-driven rush

Carly Nairn 23 Feb 2022

From Wall Street to the Amazon: Big capital funds mining-driven deforestation

Jenny Gonzales 22 Feb 2022

Palm oil firm hit by mass permit revocation still clearing forest in Indonesia

Asrida Elisabeth, Philip Jacobson 22 Feb 2022
Kenya forest service

Indigenous communities uncertain over proposed change to Kenyan forest law

Kang-Chun Cheng 21 Feb 2022

Brazil agrochemical bill nears passage in Bolsonaro’s ‘agenda of death’

Sarah Brown 18 Feb 2022

DRC’s cacao boom leaves a bitter aftertaste for Congo Basin forest

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Feb 2022

When Indonesia retook land from developers, it gave them a solid case to sue

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2022

ReconAfrica pushes ahead with Namibia oil exploration amid claims of violations

Victoria Schneider 17 Feb 2022

Sierra Leone lawsuit against diamond mine runs up against corporate opacity

Emma Black 17 Feb 2022

Red seas and no fish: Nickel mining takes its toll on Indonesia’s spice islands

Rabul Sawal 16 Feb 2022

‘There’s hope’ for North Atlantic right whales: Q&A with filmmaker Nadine Pequeneza

John Cannon 16 Feb 2022

Crackdown on villagers highlights heavy hand of Indonesia’s ‘strategic’ projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Feb 2022

Indonesia to tighten regulation of tuna harvest in bid for sustainability

Basten Gokkon 14 Feb 2022

Seychelles embraces transparency in fisheries, but gaps in data and action remain

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Feb 2022

A mayor in the Philippines took on a mine, and lost her job over it

Keith Anthony Fabro 11 Feb 2022

Malaysian officials dampen prospects for giant, secret carbon deal in Sabah

John Cannon 10 Feb 2022

Politicized Indigenous affairs agency puts Brazil’s uncontacted groups at risk

Shanna Hanbury 9 Feb 2022
Deforestation for oil palm in Malaysian Borneo.

Even degraded forests are more ecologically valuable than none, study shows

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 7 Feb 2022

Preventing the next pandemic is vastly cheaper than reacting to it: Study

Sharon Guynup 4 Feb 2022

Paraguay’s drought hits biodiversity, Indigenous communities the hardest

Maxwell Radwin 3 Feb 2022

As world drowns in plastic waste, U.N. to hammer out global treaty

Charles Pekow 2 Feb 2022

Links between terrorism and the ivory trade overblown, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Feb 2022

Full steam ahead for Tren Maya project as lawsuits hit judicial hurdles

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jan 2022
Solitary figure in a partly cultivated field, Nimba mountain range in the background. Image by Maarten van der Bent via Flickr CC BY-SA-2.0

Liberian villagers threaten to leave mining agreement, citing broken promises

Varney Kamara 27 Jan 2022

Mau Forest rehabilitation still overshadowed by forced evictions

Keit Silale 25 Jan 2022

Attack on environmental lawyer’s home alarms DRC rights defenders

Soraya Kishtwari 25 Jan 2022

Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Jan 2022

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