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EVs from Everest? Chinese lithium find in Himalayas raises concerns over water

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Mar 2022
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At a disputed Native massacre site, tribes brace for a new, lithium-driven rush

Carly Nairn 23 Feb 2022

Red seas and no fish: Nickel mining takes its toll on Indonesia’s spice islands

Rabul Sawal 16 Feb 2022
Algal bloom in the Baltic Sea on July 20, 2019.

2021’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Douglas McCauley, Emma Critchley, Molly Morse 28 Dec 2021

Wary welcome for Indonesia’s ‘green port’ initiative to clean up shipping

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

‘A leap of faith’: Q&A with Robin Radcliffe on airlifting rhinos upside down

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Nov 2021

Who benefits from resource extraction in the DRC?

Mike Gaworecki 14 Oct 2021
If the government’s plans come to fruition, the run-of-river dam at Estreito will be modified to incorporate a lock that would extend the waterway several hundred kilometres upstream. PAC collection at flickr.com; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

New transport infrastructure is opening the Amazon to global commerce

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Sep 2021

Drive toward green cars shouldn’t rely on mining seabed, conservationists say

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2021

Indonesia bets on biofuels over oil, but EVs could render both moot

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2021

New ecolabel will certify ‘Whale-Safe’ shipping companies and cruise lines

Claudia Geib 15 Jun 2021
A modern sailing vessel passes a fossil-fueled container ship. Image via Visualhunt.

New age of sail looks to slash massive maritime carbon emissions

Andrew Willner 15 Mar 2021

Fewer than 100 of these giant whales make up a newly described species

Teresa L. Carey 4 Feb 2021

2020’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Emma Critchley, Douglas McCauley 21 Dec 2020

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

Ana Ionova 3 Dec 2020

Multiplying Amazon river ports open new Brazil-to-China commodities routes

Manuela Andreoni, Diàlogo Chino 19 Nov 2020

Whale zone ahead: A cetacean speed trap tags ships going over the limit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Nov 2020
Satellite image of Tribugá, Colombia. Courtesy of Zoom.Earth.

Battle over proposed Colombian port at Tribugá puts sustainable development in focus

Dimitri Selibas 5 Oct 2020

New tool alerts ships when whales are near. But will they slow down?

Claudia Geib 23 Sep 2020

Missing mangroves are root of contention over Philippine airport project

Leilani Chavez, Susan Claire Agbayani 17 Sep 2020

Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauritius, Panama regulator says

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2020

Mauritians take to the street over oil spill and dolphin and whale deaths

Malavika Vyawahare 1 Sep 2020

Brazil green recovery plan could boost economy, add jobs, cut emissions: Report

Shanna Hanbury 27 Aug 2020

Company investigated for timber trafficking gets stimulus from Peru government

Yvette Sierra Praeli 25 Aug 2020

Mauritius’s plan to dump part of wrecked ship sparks controversy

Malavika Vyawahare 21 Aug 2020

Mauritius grapples with worst environmental crisis in a generation

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Aug 2020

Brazil could dynamite Amazon dolphin, turtle habitat for industrial waterway

Tiffany Higgins 2 Jul 2020

As lockdown ends, Manila’s dirty air is back. It doesn’t have to stay

Mavic Conde 19 Jun 2020

‘I’ll never be ready for this port,’ locals say of Colombia’s proposed project

Kimberley Brown 8 Jun 2020

Locals stage latest fight against PNG mine dumping waste into sea

Ian Morse 22 May 2020

Indonesian miners eyeing EV nickel boom seek to dump waste into the sea

Ian Morse 18 May 2020

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