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Indonesia demands cleanup after coal spill pollutes beach

Junaidi Hanafiah 6 Aug 2018

The Great Barrier Reef is losing its ability to bounce back from disturbances

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018

Global marine wilderness has dwindled to 13 percent, new map reveals

John Cannon 26 Jul 2018

As planned excise flops, Indonesia ponders how to give up plastic bags

Basten Gokkon 23 Jul 2018

Red flags abound as a warming Arctic opens up to shipping

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Basten Gokkon 17 Jul 2018

Solution to ocean’s plastic waste problem ‘starts with product design’

John Cannon 12 Jul 2018

Smartphone app helps indigenous communities fight deforestation

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2018

In a land hit by the resource curse, a new gold mine spooks officials

Basten Gokkon 17 Jun 2018

Citigroup limits financing for mines that dump tailings at sea

Jim Tan 12 Jun 2018

Waste management rules threaten to derail Indonesia mine takeover

Basten Gokkon 6 Jun 2018

Report blames coal-fired plant in Bali for pollution, loss of livelihoods

Basten Gokkon 14 May 2018

‘We are going to self-destruct’: Development plans threaten Malaysian island

Kate Mayberry 30 Apr 2018

Venezuelan gold strike prompts invasion by 3,000 miners, military raid

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 25 Apr 2018

China’s Belt and Road poised to transform the Earth, but at what cost?

Giovanni Ortolani 24 Apr 2018

Meet the winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018

Indonesia to punish state firm over litany of failures behind Borneo oil spill

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Apr 2018

Anglo American iron ore pipeline suffers second rupture in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 18 Apr 2018

Earth Day founding organizer calls for end to plastic pollution

Erik Hoffner 18 Apr 2018

Activists fear for environmental protection under Indonesia’s revised Criminal Code

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Apr 2018

Deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo spreads to the open sea

Basten Gokkon 5 Apr 2018

Indonesia investigates deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo

Basten Gokkon 3 Apr 2018

Ire and ore: Demands grow for clarity around Cambodian gold mine

Rod Harbinson 3 Apr 2018

Study reveals the Pacific Garbage Patch is much heftier than thought — and it’s growing

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2018

In Bali fish die-offs, researchers spot a human hand

Luh De Suriyani 22 Mar 2018

Analysis: U.S. call to drill off all coasts, economic and ecological folly?

Saul Elbein 14 Mar 2018
Palestinian bedouin in Gaza Valley dig for worms in the polluted shallow waters on Gaza’s coast to use for fishing. Photo by Kaamil Ahmed/Mongabay.

Gaza City residents’ water problems continue to compound

Kaamil Ahmed 12 Mar 2018

Plastic not so fantastic for Bali’s iconic manta rays

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2018

Norsk Hydro accused of Amazon toxic spill, admits ‘clandestine pipeline’

Max Nathanson 27 Feb 2018
A fish die off from chemical spill in Vietnam in 2016. Photo via Maisondelinspir.

Vietnamese activist gets 14-year sentence for documenting chemical spill

Mongabay 8 Feb 2018

Trumping Colombia’s peace: U.S. drug war threatens fragile accord, forests

Sean Mowbray 5 Feb 2018

Sumatra’s ‘tiger descendants’ cling to their customs as coal mines encroach

Dedek Hendry 30 Jan 2018

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