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Collage Maxwell Radwin and Gold mine

This riverside border town is fueling an illegal gold rush

Julia Lima, Maxwell Radwin 7 Nov 2026

3M agrees to pay more than $7 billion to settle ‘forever chemical’ groundwater contamination claims

Associated Press 5 Nov 2026
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) marine biologist Ong Chai Kee, left, and her colleague Mohd. Sahimi Abdul Rashid collect coral samples at Pulau Redang Marine Park, Malaysia, in September 2025. Image courtesy of Ong Chai Kee.

Microplastics pollute nearly two-thirds of corals in Malaysia’s marine protected area, study finds

Ashley Yeong 4 Nov 2026
In March, IBAMA dismantled an illegal mining operation in the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Territory in Roraima. This image from Operation Xapiri shows rocks resulting from bedrock blasting. After being crushed, the ore is processed using cyanide to separate the gold from other minerals.

Cyanide ponds from illegal mining threaten Amazon Indigenous territory

Elizabeth Oliveira 2 Nov 2026
Commuters on the road try to shield their noses from the thick haze as they drive.

Experts warn of long-term health risks as Indonesia’s wildfire haze takes a growing toll

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Nov 2026
Tesifying at a hearing, Mayerly López from Colombia, Marco Manobanda, an Indigenous fish-farmer from Las Naves, Ecuador. Image courtesy of Earthworks.

Environmental defenders testify about attacks in Latin America linked to Canadian mining companies

Annie Burns-Pieper 31 Oct 2026
A man carries a discarded television set that he bought in Tondo, Manila. Image © Greenpeace.

Philippines halts U.S. e-waste imports but struggles to police customs-free zones

Biena Magbitang, Helena Rodríguez Gómez, Louis Boyd-Madsen, Gabriele Di Donfrancesco 30 Oct 2026
A watercolor by the Indigenous Wayana, Aimawale Opoya.

Suriname’s rich archaeological history may hold keys to conservation

Peter Speetjens 28 Oct 2026
A vendor in Pakistan pushes his cart through smog in Lahore

In Pakistan’s Punjab, toxic air threatens wildlife amid a monitoring blind spot

Muhammad Talal 27 Oct 2026
Over the past century, humanity has invented thousands of novel chemicals.

Global framework urgently needed to assess emerging health risks of novel chemicals, experts say

Claire Asher 27 Oct 2026
A thick haze obscures the skyline behind the Central Business District area in Singapore, Oct. 9, 2026.

‘Influence without enforcement’: Indonesia’s fires test Singapore’s anti-haze law

Gabrielle See 27 Oct 2026
“Cooking gas cylinder…”: An artist draws cooking gas cylinders on a roadside fence near a gas retail outlet in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, where the use of LPG for cooking has risen in the last decade. Image by Ini Ekott for Mongabay.

5 million Nigerians gain clean cooking access annually, but it’s not enough, experts say

Ini Ekott 26 Oct 2026
The Arazaire community is split in two, bisected by the Inambari River. On the river's left bank, where residents once had agricultural plots, forest, and ceremonial lagoons, the landscape is now dominated by mercury-laden ponds and deforestation.

Amazon communities lose water as mining and deforestation reshape rivers

Vanessa Romo 23 Oct 2026

COP17: Open letter urges governments to keep extractives out of protected areas

David Akana 23 Oct 2026
A man rides a bicycle through thick haze caused by wildfires in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Oct. 23, 2026.

Indonesians allege social media posts on wildfires and haze are being censored

Winda Charmila 23 Oct 2026

Another mining-linked pollution incident raises alarm over Zambia’s Kafue River

Chisapi Kumbutso 22 Oct 2026

Facing pushback on data centers, tech giants are promising hosts more money and fewer secrets

Associated Press 22 Oct 2026
African savannah elephants in Kenya (Loxodonta africana). Image by Julie Larsen ©Wild-life Conservation Society.

Large animals are living carbon stores. Does that make saving them a climate solution?

John Cannon 20 Oct 2026

‘Exceptionally severe’ oil well eruption in Niger raises fears for threatened desert wildlife

Elodie Toto 19 Oct 2026
Banner image: A worker pruning fruit trees in South Africa in 2007. Image by Trevor Samson / World Bank via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Farmworkers’ health matters: South Africa looks to alternatives for chemical pesticides

Anna Weekes 19 Oct 2026
As the world grapples with the growing plastic pollution crisis, new accounting methods pushed by the chemical recycling industry could undermine national and international recycling targets and distract from real policy solutions, critics say.

Plastic industry bookkeeping plans hide chemical recycling harms, critics say

Claire Asher 16 Oct 2026
The village of Bento Rodrigues in the aftermath of the Mariana mining disaster in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 2015, showing destroyed buildings caked in mud and a lot of debris.

Climate change could send more toxic mining waste into coastal waters, study warns

Madeline Shaw 16 Oct 2026
Bioluminescent mushrooms (Mycena chlorophos) at Hachijo Botanical Park, Japan. Image by self via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

World Mushroom Day: From food to plastic replacement

David Brown 15 Oct 2026
Vehicles navigate a flooded road in Mozambique’s Maputo province in January 2026. Forecasters warn that the developing El Niño could bring heavier rainfall and flooding to parts of East and Southern Africa. Image by AP Photo.

Act before El Niño: Expert worries about deepening hunger in East and South Africa

David Akana 14 Oct 2026
Oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Image courtesy of NOAA.

Oil pollution is drifting into marine protected areas, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 12 Oct 2026

As Colombo heats up, passive cooling offers a low-energy solution — but at a cost

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 12 Oct 2026

Lawmakers in Suriname call for investigation, stricter oversight amid new mining activity

Maxwell Radwin 9 Oct 2026
The Peruvian government launches the 2025 anchoveta season with a 3-million-ton quota, the second-highest in the last 13 years. Image by Ministerio de la Produccion - Produce via Flickr. Public domain.

A chemical kept fishmeal from catching fire. Then scientists raised cancer concerns

Ian Urbina 9 Oct 2026

Dhaka’s waste-to-energy plant face backlash over air pollution

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2026
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Fishing in polluted waters

Izzy Sasada 8 Oct 2026
Dead fish at Hippo Pool, north of Chingola, where the Kafue River narrows into a shallow valley. Image by Victoria Schneider for Mongabay.

Despite legacy court case, Zambian Vedanta mine pollution continues

Victoria Schneider 8 Oct 2026

Africa’s monitored wildlife populations declined 80% since 1970, new report says

David Akana 7 Oct 2026

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