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New study assesses threat to wildlife from cacao expansion in Congo Basin.

The environmental toll of the M23 conflict in eastern DRC (Analysis)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson | Lara Collart | Joel Masselink 7 Mar 2025
An olive nursery in Jenin, West Bank.

Gaza and West Bank farmers salvage olive harvest amid displacement, destruction and Israeli settler violence

Elizabeth Fitt 4 Mar 2025

Environmental & rights activists flee and hide as M23 captures DRC’s cities

Elodie Toto 18 Feb 2025
Landscape of the Thawthi Taw-Oo Indigenous Park. Image courtesy of the Thawthi Taw-Oo Indigenous Park Committee.

Communities launch new Thawthi Taw-Oo Indigenous Park amid Myanmar civil war

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 17 Dec 2024
A loggerhead turtle hatchling on Al-Mansouri beach.

Amid haze of war, Lebanese activists helped turtle hatchlings journey to sea

Amélie David 25 Sep 2024

Six months after first Houthi ship sinking, attacks slick Red Sea with oil

Elizabeth Fitt 2 Sep 2024
Screenshot from a propaganda video released by JNIM depicting a training camp in Burkina Faso, 2024.

Trained to stop poaching, Benin park rangers instead face jihadists

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Aug 2024
Some of the villagers with their land title certificates.

Not waiting for the government, Myanmar’s Karen people register their own lands

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Feb 2024
A car burns with two people inside, after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Image by AP Photo/Felipe Dana via Flickr.

Nature-based recovery needed for Ukraine’s damaged protected areas (analysis)

Hannah L. Timmins 22 Dec 2023
Doha Asous, known as Um Musa, collects her olives on her land located close to the settlement of Yizhar, Burin, West Bank, October 15, 2022. Asous family owns about 84 dunums but most of it is very difficut or impossible to access due to the proximity of the Israeli settlements. Surrounded by several Israeli settlements, Burin has been a frequent target of attacks by Israeli settlers. Image by Anne Paq.

Palestinian olive farmers hold tight to their roots amid surge in settler attacks

Marta Vidal 30 Nov 2023
Yanomami Indigenous

Study: Despite armed conflicts, Indigenous lands have better environment quality

Spoorthy Raman 19 Oct 2023

Militarized conservation: Insecurity for some, security for others? (commentary)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson, Lorenzo Pellegrini 6 Jun 2023
Villagers seeking shelter following the March 2021 airstrikes at an IDP camp within the Salween Peace Park. Image courtesy of KESAN.

Award-winning, Indigenous peace park dragged into fierce conflict in Myanmar

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2023
A spoon-billed sandpiper.

Russian invasion hinders global biodiversity conservation, study shows

John Cannon 20 Feb 2023
A car burns with two people inside, after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Image by AP Photo/Felipe Dana via Flickr.

Ukrainian ecologists say nature will suffer no matter war’s result (commentary)

Oleksii Vasyliuk and Yuliia Spinova 30 Jan 2023
A dead dolphin washed up.

Black Sea dolphin deaths prompt ecocide allegations against Russia

Elizabeth Fitt 16 Dec 2022
Farmers harvesting wheat in Ukraine in the 1990s.

Did Wall Street play a role in this year’s wheat price crisis?

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Jul 2022
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia)

In world convulsed by climate-driven conflict, are peace parks an answer?

Saul Elbein 14 Jul 2022
A car burns with two people inside, after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Image by AP Photo/Felipe Dana via Flickr.

Amid war, Ukrainians are tracking Russia’s crimes against the environment

Rachel Teng Ruiqi 5 May 2022
Lithium evaporation ponds in Salar de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile. Source: NASA. Image processing by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Contorted energy politics of the Ukraine crisis (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 27 Apr 2022

As the Horn of Africa heats up, the risks of insecurity are rising (commentary)

Robert Muggah; Peter Schmidt and Giovanna Kuele 28 Mar 2022

Philippine wetland oil riches untouched by war now up for grabs in peacetime

Bong S. Sarmiento 28 Oct 2021
By Serouj (courtesy of Pan-Armenian Environmental Front) - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

Reconciliation through ecological collaboration (Commentary)

William F. Laurance 13 Jul 2021

In Colombia, end of war meant start of runaway deforestation, study finds

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 25 Jun 2021

Talks break down over crumbling Yemeni tanker threatening massive oil spill

Elizabeth Fitt 2 Jun 2021
Azura Quilalea

Gas fields and jihad: Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado becomes a resource-rich war zone

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Apr 2021

A vital mangrove forest hidden in Vietnam’s largest city could be at risk

Michael Tatarski 21 Apr 2020

Deforestation increase dovetails with armed conflict in Colombia, study finds

Antonio José Paz Cardona 18 Sep 2019

‘Landscape of fearlessness’: bushbuck emboldened following top-predator decline in Mozambique

Sophie Manson 6 May 2019

Rapid population drop weakened the Grauer’s gorilla gene pool

John Cannon 10 Jan 2019

Two Indian tribes help reconstruct a forest’s history, in war and in peace

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Dec 2018

Trumping Colombia’s peace: U.S. drug war threatens fragile accord, forests

Sean Mowbray 5 Feb 2018

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