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Tin mines close in on an Indonesian hamlet still clinging to nature

Taufik Wijaya 16 Jun 2021

After two collapses, a third Vale dam at ‘imminent risk of rupture’

Juliana Ennes 14 Jun 2021

No oil spill reported, but Sri Lanka braces for worst after X-Press Pearl sinks

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Jun 2021

In Pennsylvania, agroforestry holds a key to cleaning up waterways and Chesapeake Bay

Sarah Derouin 27 May 2021

Amazon palm oil has not lived up to its promise of sustainability (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021

As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists

Charles Pekow 17 May 2021

Ecuadoran water fund transforms consumers into conservationists

Dimitri Selibas 4 May 2021

A year after Ecuador oil spill, Indigenous victims await justice, reparations

Vincent Ricci 29 Apr 2021

South Korea faces a public reckoning for financing coal plants in Indonesia

Seulki Lee 15 Apr 2021

European tuna boats dump fishing debris in Seychelles waters ‘with impunity’

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Apr 2021
Toilet urban art

‘Opening the lid’ on toilet innovation: Q&A with author Chelsea Wald

John Cannon 6 Apr 2021

Palm oil waste is latest item declared non-hazardous by Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Apr 2021

Java’s mangroves pay a high price for stopping plastic flowing out to sea

Julia John 5 Apr 2021

Frustration over light penalties for coal mine that polluted Indonesian river

Della Syahni 5 Apr 2021

Brazil prosecutors cite Mongabay probe in new legal battle against palm oil firms

Karla Mendes 26 Mar 2021
Lone figure in dugout canoe emerging from reeds on river. Image by Patrik M. Loeff via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Growing concern over Okavango oil exploration as community alleges shutout

Jim Tan 22 Mar 2021

Déjà vu as palm oil industry brings deforestation, pollution to Amazon

Karla Mendes 12 Mar 2021

Mining sites in Indonesia’s disaster-prone areas a ticking time bomb: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Mar 2021

Ecuador court orders end to gas flaring by oil industry in Amazon

Antonio José Paz Cardona 9 Mar 2021

Amid pollution and COVID-19, a quilombolas’ Amazon sanctuary turns hostile

Sam Schramski | Cícero Pedrosa Neto | Adriana Abreu 5 Mar 2021

Calls for accountability after coal-slurry spill in Indonesian river

Della Syahni, Sapariah Saturi 19 Feb 2021
black-tailed godwits (Limosa limosa) in a fight for their territory in Mangalajodi Wetlands (Chilika - Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention), Odisha, India. By Arijit Mondal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Researchers urge better protection as wetlands continue to vanish

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Feb 2021
Oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Agribusiness giants ADM, Bunge trading in ‘conflict’ palm oil, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jan 2021

Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia

Gustavo Jiménez Gonzáles 30 Dec 2020
Woman maintaining fish trap in waist deep water near Mashare, Namibia. Image by Mp3ief via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Alarm as exploratory drilling for oil begins in northern Namibia

Jim Tan 28 Dec 2020

Traditional and Indigenous peoples ‘denounce’ planned Amazon railway

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 23 Dec 2020

Pollution, water cuts strengthen calls for environmental law reform in Malaysia

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 23 Dec 2020

2020’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Emma Critchley and Douglas McCauley 21 Dec 2020

Brazilians impacted by mining assert: ‘Genocide legalized by the state’

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 10 Dec 2020
Plastic pollution endangers marine animals, such as this young monk seal, which may get entangled in or ingest litter. Photo credit: the Ocean Cleanup/Matthew Chauvin

Clean up efforts won’t solve the plastic pollution crisis in the world’s seas

Isabella Backman 25 Nov 2020
Nine of the 15 pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) autopsied for the study were emaciated when they died, zero were considered to be in ‘robust’ condition. Photo Credit: Inwater Research Group

Are industrial chemicals killing rare whales and familiar dolphins?

Cypress Hansen 24 Nov 2020

Bottlenose dolphins could disappear from Ecuador’s Gulf of Guayaquil

Doménica Montaño 23 Nov 2020

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