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Amazon oil spill impacts indigenous villages on Teles Pires River

Zoe Sullivan 21 Nov 2016

No more mining disasters

Payal Sampat 4 Nov 2016

Rio Doce: The murder of an already dead river (commentary)

Dr. Fabiano de Melo 4 Nov 2016

Illegal fishing threatens Easter Island’s natural resources

Pablo Hernández Mares 2 Nov 2016

Thirst for coltan, gold threatens Venezuelan forests, indigenous lands

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Oct 2016

Gold Rush in Bolivia sparks conflict between miners and the community

Eduardo Franco Berton/RAI 28 Oct 2016
Auyna Tepui in Parque Nacional Canaima, part of the Guiana Shield. Photo by Christoph Kühnhanss via Wikimedia Commons.

The Guiana Shield, the ‘greenhouse of the world’

Akola Thompson 19 Oct 2016

Environmentalists squirm as Jokowi eyes Lake Toba tourism bonanza

Aria Danaparamita 19 Oct 2016

The salmon crisis in Chile’s Chiloé Island

Rodrigo Soberanes & Andrés Pérez 5 Oct 2016

House of Mussels: an artificial reef off the coast of Jakarta

Edith Koesoemawiria 5 Oct 2016

Poisoned lives: five decades of pollution in Chile’s Quintero-Ventanas Bay

Sebastián Balcazar 4 Oct 2016
Hundreds of indigenous people from villages along River Marañon gathered at Saramuro, where Petroperu Station 1 is based, staging a protest against Petroperu and the government. Photo by Ann Wang

A photographer’s journey into a Peruvian oil spill

Ann Wang 3 Oct 2016

First Toba, now Maninjau: another mass fish death hits an Indonesian lake

Vinolia 9 Sep 2016

Indigenous peoples demand protection of sacred sites at World Conservation Congress

Aura Tegría 7 Sep 2016

Negotiations and protests ongoing in wake of oil spills in Peruvian Amazon

Barbara Fraser 5 Sep 2016

World’s watersheds lost 6 percent of their forests in 14 years

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Aug 2016
A fresh tilapia from Lake Toba, where the fish are raised by small farmers and large companies, for local consumption and for export to countries like the U.S. Photo by Drriss & Marrionn/Flickr

Why did millions of fish turn up dead in Indonesia’s giant Lake Toba?

Aria Danaparamita 30 Aug 2016
Kelp and sardines in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary in California. Photo courtesy of NOAA's National Ocean Service

Could kelp forests keep ocean acidification at bay?

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2016

Should you be concerned about plastic and other human debris in your seafood?

Mike Gaworecki 8 Aug 2016

Deficient water systems, poor sanitation driving Zika in Brazil

Zoe Sullivan 29 Jul 2016
Part of the Green Fuel ethanol plant in Chisumbanje, Zimbabwe. Photo by Kenneth Matimaire.

Amid epic drought, villagers bitter over Zimbabwean ethanol plant

Andrew Mambondiyani 28 Jul 2016

Rio Olympic organizers fail to meet all environmental goals

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jul 2016

Samarco chief faces criminal investigation over collapsed Brazil dam

Zoe Sullivan 27 Jul 2016

Fish farms need not be outlawed in Indonesia’s Lake Toba: minister

Aria Danaparamita 25 Jul 2016
Levita holds a layer of dried crude oil from her farmland along the Marañon River. Photo by Brett Monroe Garner.

Health concerns, food insecurity linger months after Peruvian oil spills

Kevin Floerke and Rebecca Wolff 25 Jul 2016

Military sent to clear fish farms in Indonesia’s Lake Toba

Aria Danaparamita 22 Jul 2016
Andy Muñoz of the Marañón Defense Front watches crude drip from a stick he dipped into the stream. Photo by Barbara Fraser.

Communities brace for impact of Peruvian oil spill

Barbara Fraser 29 Jun 2016
Google Map showing location of Barranca, Peru.

Health officials in Peru: oil spill cleanup workers face ‘poisoning and burns’

Barbara Fraser 27 Jun 2016
Workers scoop oil out a stream near Chiriaco, in northern Peru, where crude spilled from a pipeline in late January. Photo by Barbara Fraser.

Amazon oil spill puts Peruvian communities at risk

Barbara Fraser, Milton López Tarabochia 26 Jun 2016

Rio Doce grassroots response arises out of Fundão mining disaster

Zoe Sullivan 8 Jun 2016

How do we keep the oceans from becoming the world’s plastic trash can?

Annie Shapiro 8 Jun 2016

1.6 million Brazilians struggle to recover from Fundão toxic waste spill

Zoe Sullivan 3 Jun 2016

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