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Unhealthy environment kills 12.6 million people every year: WHO study

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Mar 2016

‘Sitting on the edge of a knife’: Deforestation ramps up in Queensland

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Feb 2016

Bolivia’s second largest lake disappears, due to desertification and contamination

Aldo Orellana López 15 Feb 2016

Indonesia’s ore-smelting ambitions augur rain of poison in Sulawesi

Melati Kaye 19 Jan 2016

One of Brazil’s worst environmental crimes brings into question whether the country’s environmental policies are influenced by large mining companies

Renata Leite Pitman 17 Dec 2015
Muskrat Falls in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, the future site of the hydroelectric dam. The falls will be flooded in 2017. Photo by Amina Schartup.

New dams may expose Canadian seafood consumers to higher levels of neurotoxin

Emily Benson 23 Nov 2015

Preservatives from cosmetics build up in the bodies of far-flung marine mammals

Bethany Augliere 23 Nov 2015

Guatemalan activist murdered after court suspends palm oil company operations

Sandra Cuffe 30 Sep 2015

Photo essay: Polluted, overfished, and choked by weeds, world’s second-largest lake is ‘on its knees’

Isaiah Esipisu 2 Jun 2015

9 months after Amazonian oil pipeline spill, effects and fears linger

Barbara Fraser 30 Mar 2015

Is the Gran Canal really a ‘big Christmas present’ for Nicaraguans?

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

What happened to the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster?

James Urton 24 Nov 2014

Coal mine has heavy impact in Indonesian Borneo

Loren Bell 26 Sep 2014

Domestic conservation: Indonesia’s rich should step up to save nation’s dwindling natural resources

Erik Meijaard 13 Sep 2014

Under pressure over pollution complaints, Aceh calls for closure of gold mines

Loren Bell 22 Aug 2014

Oil palm, mining prompts local govt in Borneo to declare water unsafe for drinking

Loren Bell 6 Aug 2014

Featured video: new documentary highlights the Long March to save the Sundarbans

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2014

Peruvian oil spill sparks concern in indigenous rainforest community

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2014

Oil palm plantations degrade local water quality relative to community forests

Mongabay.com 30 Jun 2014

Bioluminescent bacteria expose toxic arsenic in Bangladesh

Nsikan Akpan 2 Apr 2014

Gulf of Mexico deep sea may need decades to recover from oil spill

Nicholas St. Fleur 20 Nov 2013

Fracking: the good, the bad and the ugly

Owen Reynolds 18 Nov 2013

Bangladesh plans massive coal plant in world’s biggest mangrove forest

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2013

Gold mining in the Amazon rainforest surges 400%

Rhett A. Butler 28 Oct 2013

Coal railway could cause ‘ecological disaster’ in Indonesian Borneo, warn environmentalists

Diana Parker 30 Sep 2013

Mesoamerican Reef needs more local support, says report

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 13 Sep 2013

Colombian mining dispute highlights legislative disarray

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 27 Jun 2013

Mining in Indonesia taking a heavy social, environmental toll

Anne Usher 3 Jun 2013

Scientists discover high mercury levels in Amazon residents, gold-mining to blame

Lacey Avery 28 May 2013

Water crisis widening: 4.5 billion people live near ‘impaired water sources’

Fiona Harvey 28 May 2013

Samsung admits to using tin linked to child labor, deforestation; Apple mum on sourcing

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2013

Nitrogen pollution in China increased 60% annually between 1980 and 2010

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2013

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