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On a Honduran island, a community effort grows to protect its precious reefs

Sandra Weiss 25 Mar 2022

Chemical recycling: ‘Green’ plastics solution makes more pollution, says report

Claire Asher 22 Mar 2022

Pharmaceutical water pollution detected deep in the Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 21 Mar 2022

Indigenous communities in Ecuador struggle with the aftermath of another oil spill

Diego Cazar Baquero 18 Mar 2022

Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await

Claire Asher 15 Mar 2022

The world says yes to a cradle to grave plastics treaty: Now the work begins

Charles Pekow 7 Mar 2022

Microplastics plus organic pollutants equals 10 times the toxicity, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Mar 2022
Philippine coral reefs in the Verde Island Passage, the centre of the center of the world's marine biodiversity, located in the Philippines. Image by Jett Britnell/Coral Reef Image Bank

Can we save coral reefs? | Problem Solved

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Mar 2022

Aerosol pollution: Destabilizing Earth’s climate and a threat to health

Conrad Fox 3 Mar 2022

Colombian palm oil company under investigation for polluting rivers

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 2 Mar 2022

In a biodiversity haven, mining drives highest ever recorded levels of mercury

John Cannon 28 Feb 2022

Illegal mining fuels social conflict in Indonesian tin hub of Bangka-Belitung

Nopri Ismi, Taufik Wijaya 24 Feb 2022

Caffeine: Emerging contaminant of global rivers and coastal waters

Sean Mowbray 22 Feb 2022

The small cats nobody knows: Wild felines face intensifying planetary risks

Sean Mowbray 17 Feb 2022

Sierra Leone lawsuit against diamond mine runs up against corporate opacity

Emma Black 17 Feb 2022

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

Rabul Sawal 16 Feb 2022

Tiny plastic particles accumulating in river headwaters: Study

Claire Asher 10 Feb 2022

Polluting with impunity: Palm oil companies flout regulations in Ecuador

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022

Community in Ecuador punished for trying to stop alleged palm oil pollution

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022

As world drowns in plastic waste, U.N. to hammer out global treaty

Charles Pekow 2 Feb 2022
Dakota pipeline protest

Standing Rock withdraws from ongoing environmental assessment of Dakota Access Pipeline

Laurel Sutherland 2 Feb 2022
Indigenous salmon fishers

Alaskan Indigenous leaders fear impacts on salmon streams by mining project

Laurel Sutherland 26 Jan 2022

South Africa authorizes dumping at sea of cargo that turned volatile

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jan 2022

Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2022

Déjà vu for Indigenous villagers in Brazil as floods leave them homeless again

Sarah Brown 21 Jan 2022

We’ve breached Earth’s threshold for chemical pollution, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Jan 2022

For pharmaceuticals fouling wastewater and wildlife, solutions exist (commentary)

Cate Twining-Ward, Colin Chapman 18 Jan 2022

In Kathmandu, a struggle for water amid worsening floods

Johan Augustin 17 Jan 2022
Gold mining in the Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Brazil’s illegal gold rush is fueling corruption, violent crime and deforestation

Robert Muggah 14 Jan 2022
A sewage outlet in Bangkok.

The thick of it: Delving into the neglected global impacts of human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 Jan 2022

Indonesia’s clean energy transition must start with clean rivers (commentary)

Warief Djajanto Basorie 11 Jan 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

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