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Workers clean an oil spill that has polluted a beach on Salamina Island, Greece.

Beyond climate: Oil, gas and coal are destabilizing all 9 planetary boundaries

Sean Mowbray 14 Nov 2023
An anonymous pipeline-affected person in Tanzania, January 2022.

Disturbing graves is latest violation attributed to East African oil pipeline

Justin Catanoso 14 Nov 2023

How the U.S. financial system props up illegal logging and mining

Maxwell Radwin 14 Nov 2023
Red colobus monkey in Uganda. Image by Julie Kearney Wasserman via U.S. National Science Foundation.

Are flame retardants about to burn a hole in biodiversity? (commentary)

Marta Venier, Michael Wasserman 13 Nov 2023

Cerro de Pasco: The massive mine poisoning an entire city in Peru

Dan Collyns, Romi Castagnino 12 Nov 2023
Brazilian environment ministry's IBAMA carryinh out an operation to combat the illegal use of pesticides in western Bahia's Cerrado in 2018.

Study links pesticides to child cancer deaths in Brazilian Amazon & Cerrado

Shi En Kim 10 Nov 2023
A volunteer firefighter from the Power of Mama group.

In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew

Mongabay Haze Beat 10 Nov 2023

Lifted sanctions on gold, oil could slow conservation efforts in Venezuela

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2023
Woman carrying a solar pannel near Yangambi, DRC.

Can carbon markets solve Africa’s climate finance woes?

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Nov 2023

Burn now, pay later: Fines trickle in from Indonesia’s crackdown on forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2023

Expansion of Ecuador mine risks ‘imminent’ collapse of waste dam, experts warn

Dan Collyns 6 Nov 2023

Abandoned oil mess still plagues communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Diego Cazar Baquero 6 Nov 2023
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Poisoned for decades by a Peruvian mine, communities say they feel forgotten

Dan Collyns 2 Nov 2023

As fire season worsens, Indonesian activists report four companies for burning

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2023
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Critical questions remain as carbon credit deal in Sabah presses forward

John Cannon 1 Nov 2023
A group of Murujuga custodians formed the group Save Our Songlines to stop the future destruction of rock art using the law.

Australia crackdown on climate protesters grows amid fight against gas project

Tessa Fox 31 Oct 2023

More action needed to protect freshwater ecosystems, report says

Maxwell Radwin 27 Oct 2023
Arg-e Bam in Iran, a trading center on the famous Silk Road, known to be the largest adobe building in the world.

What’s old is new again: Bioarchitects plot route to circular economy

Sandra Weiss 26 Oct 2023

For 1st time, Indonesia government recognizes ancestral forests in Aceh — but only some

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Oct 2023
Villagers of Muanda.

Oil firm Perenco eyes new blocks in DRC amid criticism of its track record

Elodie Toto 24 Oct 2023
Efforts to extinguish the fire around Sungai Buluh Kecil, in the Tanjung Puting National Park area, mid-September 2023.

Young firefighter killed battling inferno in Borneo orangutan habitat

Budi Baskoro 24 Oct 2023
Adélard Makonga at the Gécamines mining site.

Mine in ‘world cobalt capital’ displaces locals and monks under questionable circumstances

Didier Makal, Eric Cibamba 23 Oct 2023
The Deekali Project: Women washing plastic waste to prepare for the grinding machine at a local recycling facility in Senegal.

As companies buy ‘plastic credits,’ are they reducing waste or greenwashing?

Charles Pekow 19 Oct 2023
The endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)

South Africa’s penguins heading toward extinction; will no-fishing zones help?

Leonie Joubert 17 Oct 2023
Nnimmo Bassey and the team at the spill site at Eteo community in Ogoni, Rivers State.

Stop playing politics with climate change: Q&A with Nigeria’s Nnimmo Bassey

Abdulkareem Mojeed 17 Oct 2023
Rainbow over rainforest in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia opens carbon trading market to both skepticism and hope

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Oct 2023
Greenpeace activists built a carbon bomb to protest Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage at a protest in Germany. Image courtesy of Karsten Smid / Greenpeace Media Library.

Beyond ‘no,’ more positive visions for conservation need communication (commentary)

Rachael Garrett 12 Oct 2023
Humpback whales in French Polynesian waters. The intensity and duration of marine heat waves could have widespread effects on marine biodiversity, increasing the likelihood of species displacement and mortality. Image by Toby Matthews / Ocean Image Bank.

As oceans warm, marine heat waves push deep beneath the surface, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Oct 2023
Ruddy ducks in East Rapti River next to the protected Chitwan National Park.

Conservationists condemn Nepal proposal to allow hydropower in protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Oct 2023
Aerial view of the FSO Safer with the Yemen and Ndeavor moored alongside, preparing to transfer the oil. Image courtesy of Boskalis.

How the United Nations, kids and corporations saved the Red Sea from an oil disaster

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Oct 2023
Plastics of all shapes, sizes, colors and composition enter the ocean every day, with largely unknown impacts.

Microplastics pose risk to ocean plankton, climate, other key Earth systems

Claire Asher 9 Oct 2023
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World Bank still backs coal in Asia, despite climate claims, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 5 Oct 2023

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