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Health concerns, food insecurity linger months after Peruvian oil spills

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

Communities brace for impact of Peruvian oil spill

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

Amazon oil spill puts Peruvian communities at risk

Rio Doce grassroots response arises out of Fundão mining disaster

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

1.6 million Brazilians struggle to recover from Fundão toxic waste spill

Shell spills 88,200 gallons of oil into Gulf of Mexico

Gold mining shifts course of Peruvian river, ‘will destroy’ ecosystems

Battling India’s Sand Barons

Millions of fish die suddenly in Indonesia’s giant Lake Toba

Lake Maracaibo: an oil development sacrifice zone dying from neglect

Taiwanese chemical spill thought to cause mass fish die-off in Vietnam

Hundreds of baby dolphin deaths linked to BP oil spill

Global coral bleaching event hits Australia’s Great Barrier Reef hard

The week in environmental news – March 18, 2016

Abuse, displacement, pollution: the legacy of Zimbabwe’s Marange diamonds

Unhealthy environment kills 12.6 million people every year: WHO study

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guatemalan activist murdered after court suspends palm oil company operations

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

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

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

What happened to the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster?

Coal mine has heavy impact in Indonesian Borneo

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

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