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The mudslide near Brumadinho via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Dam holding mining waste collapses in Brazil

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2019

Why are more female than male Magellanic penguins stranded in South America every year?

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2019

With its $3.85b mine takeover, Indonesia inherits a $13b pollution problem

Basten Gokkon 14 Jan 2019
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Image by Christopher Brunner/ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

2018’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Douglas McCauley, Francis Joyce 24 Dec 2018

‘Snot otters’ threatened by disease and stress

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2018
The Mozambique Channel off the west coast of Madagascar. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Madagascar auctioning a large swath of virgin waters for oil exploration

Edward Carver 14 Dec 2018

Feed a fishery, starve a seabird

Mongabay.com 12 Dec 2018

Women in small-island states exposed to high levels of mercury: study

Basten Gokkon 27 Nov 2018

Chile fishers brace for fallout after massive mining port is approved

Michelle Carrere 26 Nov 2018

Indonesia leans on businesses to do more about plastic waste

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2018

Colombia: Dying of thirst, Wayuu blame mine, dam, drought for water woes

Lucy Sherriff 1 Nov 2018

Palm oil executives arrested in bribery scandal in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong, Indra Nugraha 30 Oct 2018
The coast of Freedom Island in Metro Manila teems with trash in this photo taken in 2017. Image courtesy of Greenpeace.

Plastic trash from the ‘sachet economy’ chokes the Philippines’ seas

Bong S. Sarmiento 9 Oct 2018

Largely banned industrial chemicals could wipe out killer whales, study warns

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2018

Indonesian fish farmers get early-warning system for lake pollution

M Ambari 25 Sep 2018

Latam Eco Review: Black market jaguars, freed green macaws

Mongabay.com 23 Sep 2018

As India’s Ganges runs out of water, a potential food shortage looms

Sahana Ghosh 17 Sep 2018

‘Diaper Brigade’ fights a chemical crisis in Java’s rivers

Tommy Apriando 6 Sep 2018

Indonesia, a top plastic polluter, mobilizes 20,000 citizens to clean up the mess

Mongabay Indonesia 4 Sep 2018

Another mass fish kill hits Indonesia’s largest lake

Ayat S. Karokaro 24 Aug 2018

Gold mining suspected as cause of Cambodian mass poisonings

Rod Harbinson 17 Aug 2018

A river restored breathes new life into Kuala Lumpur

Keith Schneider 8 Aug 2018

On an island in the sun, coal power is king over abundant solar

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2018

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

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