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Pharmaceutical water pollution detected deep in the Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 21 Mar 2022

Indigenous communities in Ecuador struggle with the aftermath of another oil spill

Diego Cazar Baquero 18 Mar 2022

‘We have a full pharmacopoeia of plants’: Q&A with Māori researcher Nicola Macdonald

Monica Evans 18 Mar 2022

NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

John Cannon 17 Mar 2022
Intact rainforest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Study: Indonesia’s forest-clearing moratorium underdelivered — but so did donors

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2022

Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await

Claire Asher 15 Mar 2022

Activists vow to take EU to court to fight its forest biomass policies

Justin Catanoso 14 Mar 2022

The world says yes to a cradle to grave plastics treaty: Now the work begins

Charles Pekow 7 Mar 2022

Microplastics plus organic pollutants equals 10 times the toxicity, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Mar 2022
Philippine coral reefs in the Verde Island Passage, the centre of the center of the world's marine biodiversity, located in the Philippines. Image by Jett Britnell/Coral Reef Image Bank

Can we save coral reefs? | Problem Solved

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Mar 2022

Aerosol pollution: Destabilizing Earth’s climate and a threat to health

Conrad Fox 3 Mar 2022

Colombian palm oil company under investigation for polluting rivers

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 2 Mar 2022

Forest clearing for crop program in Papua may unleash massive emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Mar 2022

In a biodiversity haven, mining drives highest ever recorded levels of mercury

John Cannon 28 Feb 2022

For fire-ravaged northern Thailand, there’s now an app to battle the blaze

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 28 Feb 2022

Latest Nigeria oil spill highlights ‘wretched’ state of the industry

Mongabay 24 Feb 2022

Illegal mining fuels social conflict in Indonesian tin hub of Bangka-Belitung

Nopri Ismi, Taufik Wijaya 24 Feb 2022
Aerial view of Amazon rainforest landscape scarred by open pit gold mines

Brazil’s Amazon gold mining to be “stimulated” by Bolsonaro’s decree (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Feb 2022

Caffeine: Emerging contaminant of global rivers and coastal waters

Sean Mowbray 22 Feb 2022

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

Sarah Brown 18 Feb 2022

The small cats nobody knows: Wild felines face intensifying planetary risks

Sean Mowbray 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

Tiny plastic particles accumulating in river headwaters: Study

Claire Asher 10 Feb 2022

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

John Cannon 10 Feb 2022

Air pollution makes it tough for pollinators to stop and smell the flowers

Liz Kimbrough 10 Feb 2022

Fears of oil spills as ExxonMobil seeks to drill at the mouth of a Brazil river

Mariama Correia, Agência Pública 10 Feb 2022

Amazon losing far more carbon from forest degradation than deforestation: Study

Graycen Wheeler 9 Feb 2022

Gulf of Thailand oil pipeline leak threatens reef-rich marine park

Carolyn Cowan 4 Feb 2022

Polluting with impunity: Palm oil companies flout regulations in Ecuador

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022

Community in Ecuador punished for trying to stop alleged palm oil pollution

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022

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

Charles Pekow 2 Feb 2022

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