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Sumber Makmur Farmers’ Collective's seed nursery.

Sumatra coffee farmers brew natural fertilizer as inflation bites

Themmy Doaly 4 Jan 2024
Rubber duckies

As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two

Alden Wicker 2 Jan 2024

Study: Fishing with pesticides and dynamite puts Ecuadorian Amazon in peril

Mark Hillsdon 2 Jan 2024
At a mining site in Uis, Namibia.

Report: Rush for ‘clean energy’ minerals in Africa risks repeating harmful extractivist model

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Dec 2023
Activists protesting at Glencore's coal mining site in Cerrejón, Colombia.

Reports allege abuses by Glencore in Peru and Colombia, and the banks funding them

Aimee Gabay 27 Dec 2023
Two wild Przewalski’s horses (mares), apparently infatuated with a domestic stallion at a farm in Dytiaku, Ukraine

Long-term wildlife impacts at Chornobyl, Fukushima may yield ‘a new ecology’

Annelise Giseburt 21 Dec 2023
Fishers in San Agapito barangay on Verde Island in Batangas province prepare their nets in September.

Philippines oil spill may reverberate long after cleanup declared complete

Jewel S. Cabrera 13 Dec 2023
An excavator at a coal mine.

COP28 ‘breakthrough’ elevates litigation as vital route to climate action

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2023
Melting ice.

Earth on ‘devastating trajectory’ to global tipping points. But there’s hope.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Dec 2023
Ships that burn heavy fuel oil emit dirty exhaust containing black carbon. These sooty particles supercharge global heating in polar environments and threaten the livelihoods of Arctic communities. Image by Cyprien Hauser via Flickr (CC BY-ND).

Any fossil fuel phase-out deal at COP28 must include global shipping (commentary)

Shaama Sandooyea 4 Dec 2023
Jesi Ferreira de Castro, coordinator of the São Francisco community

Paradise lost? Brazil’s biggest bauxite mining firm denies riverine rights

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 27 Nov 2023
North Atlantic orcas are threatened by persistent organic pollutants that build up in their favorite prey, marine mammals. Photo by Nitesh Jain / Unsplash

North Atlantic orcas reveal the troubling persistence of toxic ocean pollutants

Kristel Tjandra 27 Nov 2023
A waste processing management facility

Chemical recycling of plastic not so fantastic, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Nov 2023
Throwaway single-use plastic trash at a festival in Germany.

Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran & petrochemical industry stall plastics treaty: Critics

Charles Pekow 22 Nov 2023
Mona Webber pointing at a mangrove restoration site on Norman Manly Highway.

Jamaica battles relentless plastic pollution in quest to restore mangroves

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Nov 2023
Fossils fuels are emblematic of a “take-make-waste” economic model that is pushing humanity beyond safe limits, experts say.

Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say

Sean Mowbray 16 Nov 2023

Remediation overdue: South American countries fail to enforce oil cleanup laws

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Nov 2023
A young boy tries to help a fallen donkey stand during a severe drought that struck the Horn of Africa.

Beyond Climate: Fossil fuels rapidly eroding Earth’s ‘safe operating space’

Sean Mowbray 15 Nov 2023
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 and Michael Wasserman 13 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

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
mine peru

Poisoned for decades by a Peruvian mine, communities say they feel forgotten

Dan Collyns 2 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
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
Villagers of Muanda.

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

Elodie Toto 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

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