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People protesting against fossil fuels and related pollution in Africa.

Element Africa: A lawsuit over oil, deaths over mining, and worries over lithium

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2023

Mechanization of illegal gold mining threatens Ghana’s forests

Elodie Toto 8 Feb 2023

Pollution and climate change set stage for rise in antimicrobial resistance

John Cannon 8 Feb 2023

Element Africa: Lead poisoning, polluted rivers, and ‘calamitous’ mining regulation

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2023
A fishing cat.

Plastic works its way up the food chain to hit fishing cats, study shows

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2023
The dilapidated home of Ambroise Ondoa, local leader from Nkol-Bifouan, damaged by vibrations from the Febe village quarry. Image © Yannick Kenné.

Tense neighbors: Chinese quarry in Cameroon takes a toll on locals

Yannick Kenné 24 Jan 2023

FOIA lawsuit suggests Indonesian nickel miners lack environmental licenses

Eko Rusdianto 24 Jan 2023
Seaweed harvesting in the Philippines.

Innovators develop seaweed-based alternatives to plastic food wrappers

Jewel S. Cabrera 17 Jan 2023
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Poisoned by pesticides: Health crisis deepens in Brazil’s Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 16 Jan 2023
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

Deliberate dumping of plastic trash in the Pacific: How widespread is it? (commentary)

Saam Shams 12 Jan 2023
lagoon

Locals fight to save ‘a piece of the sea’ in Venezuela’s Andes

María Fernanda Rodríguez, Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 5 Jan 2023

In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2022
Humberto Sánchez.

Shadows of oil in Peru: Shipibo people denounce damage, contamination left by company

Enrique Vera 26 Dec 2022

Guatemala landfill feeds ‘trash islands’ hundreds of miles away in Honduras

Maxwell Radwin 23 Dec 2022
A boy with a jar of cigarette butts.

Tobacco: Vaping and smoking drive environmental harm from farm to fingertip

Sean Mowbray 22 Dec 2022

In Liberia, a gold boom leads to unregulated mining and ailing rivers

Varney Kamara 22 Dec 2022
An Atlantic grey seal.

Plastic pellet pollution can end through coordinated efforts, report shows

Jewel S. Cabrera 21 Dec 2022
Shanties stand along the bank of Buriganga River.

In Bangladesh, Ecologically Critical Areas exist only on paper

Abu Siddique 16 Dec 2022
The blackened earth shows where banana trees used to be.

“Sinchiurco is coated with oil”: The Kichwa people going up against Petroecuador

Ana Cristina Alvarado 14 Dec 2022

Five pressing questions for the future of lithium mining in Bolivia

Maxwell Radwin 12 Dec 2022
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

New criminal code rings alarms for environmental protection in Indonesia

Basten Gokkon 6 Dec 2022
Waikas, Raraima, Brazil September 1st 2022 Robervaldo a young Yek'wana that used to work in a Garimpo. Photographed in his community Waikas near the venezuelian border. Photo © Victor Raison 2022, all rights reserved.

Indigenous youths lured by the illegal mines destroying their Amazon homeland

Victor Raison; Jean-Mathieu Albertini 30 Nov 2022
Used polythene waste on the banks of Buriganga River.

Dhaka’s ailing sewage system threatens human and environmental health

S.M. Najmus Sakib 30 Nov 2022
Saliou Hassana, a 17-year-old gold miner, extracting and collecting gold nuggets using mercury at Kambélé III. Image © Yannick Kenné.

About 72% of gold miners poisoned with mercury at artisanal mining sites in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 29 Nov 2022
A community member carries mangrove seedlings to be planted. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.

Oil spills, logging and invasive species threaten Niger Delta mangroves

Orji Sunday 18 Nov 2022

Blue jeans: An iconic fashion item that’s costing the planet dearly

Jenny Gonzales 17 Nov 2022

Mercury rising: Why Bolivia remains South America’s hub for the toxic trade

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2022
Fish eggs from the Halda River.

Fish eggs return to Bangladesh’s Halda River following conservation efforts

Abu Siddique 2 Nov 2022
Alice Gama looks at cracks that have developed on the wall of her house in Arda Transau, an area near Zimbabwe’s Chiadzwa diamond fields. Image courtesy Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of Evidence Chenjerai.

Broken houses and promises: residents still in poverty near massive diamond project

Anna Weekes 24 Oct 2022
Okapis (Okapia johnstoni) are related to giraffes. Image in the public domain.

Element Africa: Mines take their toll on nature and communities

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2022
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

Early retirement for Indonesian coal plants could cut CO2, boost jobs, analysis says

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2022
A family clears overgrown aquatic weeds in a wetland.

Habitat loss, climate change threaten Bangladesh’s native freshwater fishes with extinction

Rafiqul Islam 20 Oct 2022

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