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

Shreya Dasgupta 20 May 2016

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

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 May 2016

Battling India’s Sand Barons

Sibi Arasu 11 May 2016

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

Ayat S. Karokaro 11 May 2016

Lake Maracaibo: an oil development sacrifice zone dying from neglect

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 3 May 2016
A massive fish die-off. Image via EPA.

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

David E. Brown 3 May 2016

Hundreds of baby dolphin deaths linked to BP oil spill

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Apr 2016

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

Mic Smith 1 Apr 2016

The week in environmental news – March 18, 2016

Brittany Stewart 18 Mar 2016
High security fence at the Marange diamond fields. Security is tight but poverty in nearby communities drives many to attempt to break in and pan for diamonds illegally. Those caught risk beatings and torture by government and mine security forces. Photo by Andrew Mambondiyani.

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

Andrew Mambondiyani 15 Mar 2016

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

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