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For Thai fishers facing dwindling catches, a Lao dam looms large

Tom Fawthrop 10 Jun 2022
View of the Nangaritza valley from near Las Orquideas. Photo by Andrew Neil via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Illegal mining threatens one of the last forest links between the Andes and Ecuador’s Amazon

Jackeline Beltrán 10 Jun 2022

Suspension of Chinese miner for pollution in DRC points to wider problem

Immaculée Inamuco 1 Jun 2022

Riders of the lost waves: Surfing, and saving, Brazil’s pororocas

Aldem Bourscheit 27 May 2022

Meet the 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 25 May 2022
Giant stingray

In the Mekong’s murky depths, giants abound, new expedition finds

Carolyn Cowan 24 May 2022

China-funded dam could disrupt key Argentine glaciers and biodiversity

Maxwell Radwin 12 May 2022

Freshwater planetary boundary “considerably” transgressed: New research

Petro Kotzé 27 Apr 2022
Detroit Dam in Oregon

The world’s dams: Doing major harm but a manageable problem?

Petro Kotzé 21 Apr 2022
Irrawaddy dolphin in the Mekong river © WWF-Cambodia / Tan Someth Bunwath

Death of last river dolphin in Laos rings alarm bells for Mekong population

Carolyn Cowan 14 Apr 2022
ransgenic zebrafish expressing different fluorescent colours.

GM fish engineered to glow in the dark are found in Brazil creeks

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2022
Men from the San Francisco communal land make use of a tree that fell during the rainy season. Photo by Marlén Castro.

Protecting water by conserving forests puts communities in Mexico to the test

Marlén Castro 5 Apr 2022
NASA satellite image of the Rio Tapajos in March 2022.

Dams on Brazil’s Jamanxim River: The advancing assault on the environment and Indigenous peoples in the Tapajós basin (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 29 Mar 2022

Chinese investment in Latin America plagues people and nature: Report

Maxwell Radwin 24 Mar 2022

Millennia of Indigenous history faces erasure as mining grips Brazil’s Tapajós

Maurício Angelo 24 Mar 2022

Cambodian project aims to revive flagging fish populations in Tonle Sap Lake

Carolyn Cowan 22 Mar 2022

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

Colombian palm oil company under investigation for polluting rivers

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 2 Mar 2022

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

John Cannon 28 Feb 2022

Caffeine: Emerging contaminant of global rivers and coastal waters

Sean Mowbray 22 Feb 2022
Goby

One fish, two fish: New goby species described from the Philippines

Carolyn Cowan 21 Feb 2022
Canada marine

In Canada, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate on marine research

Moira Donovan 15 Feb 2022

Tiny plastic particles accumulating in river headwaters: Study

Claire Asher 10 Feb 2022

Paraguay’s drought hits biodiversity, Indigenous communities the hardest

Maxwell Radwin 3 Feb 2022
Indigenous salmon fishers

Alaskan Indigenous leaders fear impacts on salmon streams by mining project

Laurel Sutherland 26 Jan 2022

Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2022

In Kathmandu, a struggle for water amid worsening floods

Johan Augustin 17 Jan 2022
A sewage outlet in Bangkok.

The thick of it: Delving into the neglected global impacts of human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 Jan 2022

Indonesia’s clean energy transition must start with clean rivers (commentary)

Warief Djajanto Basorie 11 Jan 2022

As its glaciers melt, Nepal is forced into an adaptation not of its choosing

Johan Augustin 27 Dec 2021

In search of wild spectacles and river journeys

Mike Gaworecki 21 Dec 2021

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