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Peruvian Indigenous groups thwart oil drilling in their territory — for now

John Cannon 30 Oct 2020

Brazil’s Amazon dam plans: Ominous warnings of future destruction (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Oct 2020

Madagascar shuts down ‘illegal’ gold mine but activists remain in legal limbo

Edward Carver 21 Oct 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020

Oil palm plantations in Sumatran watershed worsen flooding in communities

Basten Gokkon 11 Sep 2020

More than 500 dams planned inside protected areas: Study

Liz Kimbrough 5 Aug 2020

Vietnam approves $9 billion development within mangrove reserve

Tim Rist 5 Aug 2020

World Bank-funded factory farms dogged by alleged environmental abuses

John Cannon 16 Jul 2020

Discovery of fish never recorded in the Amazon shows richness of Brazil’s Calha Norte

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Jul 2020

Amazon river dolphin risks extinction if Brazil moratorium not renewed

Peter Yeung 16 Jun 2020

Communities on Brazil’s ‘River of Unity’ tested by dams, climate change

Sarah Sax 2 Jun 2020

Massive erosion likely due to hydropower dam causes oil spill on Ecuador’s Coca River

Antonio José Paz Cardona 6 May 2020

China held water back from drought-stricken Mekong countries, report says

Michael Tatarski 30 Apr 2020

This solar-powered device aims to clean 1,000 rivers. Will it work?

Rachael Meyer and Basten Gokkon 16 Mar 2020

Killing gods: The last hope for the world’s rarest reptile

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2020

Toxic river: Mining, mercury and murder continue to plague Colombia’s Atrato

Frederick Gillingham, Melisa Valenzuela 10 Oct 2019

Fires in Brazil’s Amazon have devastating consequences

Antonio José Paz Cardona 6 Sep 2019

No need to dam free-flowing rivers to meet world’s climate and energy targets

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2019
image by Cristóbal von Rothkirch from the book Cariba Malo.

Gold, wood, religion: Threats to Colombia’s isolated indigenous peoples

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 3 Jun 2019

In Indonesia, bigger catches for a fishing village protecting its mangroves

Aseanty Pahlevi 3 May 2019

Recently discovered Brazilian river dolphin’s calls could help us understand evolution of marine mammal communication

Mongabay.com 1 May 2019
A coastal village near the Myeik area in Myanmar. Photo by Victoria Milko.

Controversial aquaculture projects threaten Myanmar’s remaining mangroves

Wudan Yan 1 May 2019
Tapiatpia, the first solar canoe, on its 25-day inaugural voyage from Lago Agrio in northeastern Ecuador toward Sharamentsa in 2017. Image by Fundación Kara Solar.

Conceived in a dream, new solar canoe will serve Amazon tribes

Gabriela Balarezo 3 Apr 2019

Sarawak can invest in or give away its future (commentary)

Daniel Kammen 1 Apr 2019

New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction

John Cannon 15 Mar 2019

Brazil’s Sinop Dam flouts environmental legislation (Commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 1 Mar 2019
The mudslide near Brumadinho via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Dam holding mining waste collapses in Brazil

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2019

Community-based conservation offers hope for Amazon’s giant South American turtle

Jenny Gonzales 9 Jan 2019

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

Dam drove ‘collapse’ of rainforest bird populations in Thailand

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2018

Extreme floods on the rise in the Amazon: study

Claire Asher 5 Dec 2018
Duong Le feeds shrimp on his intensive shrimp farm in Long An Province, Vietnam. Image by Zoe Osborne for Mongabay.

New climate change report highlights grave dangers for Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 30 Oct 2018

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