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Maman Ajo makes a living selling boats.

Java farmers displaced by dam remain treading water after decades

Donny Iqbal 8 Nov 2023

Deforestation continues in Kenya’s largest water capturing forest, satellites show

Liz Kimbrough 7 Nov 2023
Digital screens in New York's Times Square.

The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 2 Nov 2023

More action needed to protect freshwater ecosystems, report says

Maxwell Radwin 27 Oct 2023
Kuikuro men playing flutes.

The Amazon’s archaeology of hope: Q&A with anthropologist Michael Heckenberger

Peter Speetjens 18 Oct 2023
Plastics of all shapes, sizes, colors and composition enter the ocean every day, with largely unknown impacts.

Microplastics pose risk to ocean plankton, climate, other key Earth systems

Claire Asher 9 Oct 2023
Pigeon flock in Nepal

Super flock of pigeons leaves Nepali researchers asking what happened

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Sep 2023

Oil and gas exploration threatens Bolivian Chaco water supply

Iván Paredes Tamayo, Nelfi Fernández Reyes 24 Aug 2023

A tale of two biomes as deforestation surges in Cerrado but wanes in Amazon

Sarah Brown 23 Aug 2023

Tropical lakes are carbon super sinks, even more than forests, study shows

Evanildo da Silveira 18 Aug 2023

Zika, dengue transmission expected to rise with climate change

Luís Patriani 9 Aug 2023
Biologist Mario Moscatelli (right) supervises the work of a colleague during the replanting of mangroves in Jardim Gramacho, close to a disused dump. The area is the most polluted part of the bay and exists under the shadow of the city’s infamous criminal organizations.

Rio de Janeiro’s defender of mangroves

Mongabay.com 9 Aug 2023

The endless struggle to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s highly polluted Guanabara Bay

Andrew Johnson 1 Aug 2023
A farmer in a paddy field.

Vietnamese rice farmers go high-tech to anticipate a low-water future

Sonal Gupta, Victoria Mann, JJ Mazzucotelli, Michelle Gomez, Hafsa Maqsood 24 Jul 2023
The Amazon rainforest in Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Why should funding Amazon forest sustainability be the world’s top priority? (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper, Mariana Senna, Ricardo Politi 20 Jul 2023
rhino in Nepal

Nepal’s rhinos are eating plastic waste, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2023

Projects in Brazil’s Caatinga biome combine conservation and climate adaptation

Kevin Damasio 23 Jun 2023

Sugarcane: The monoculture that transformed southern Quintana Roo

Adriana Varillas, Alejandro Castro 21 Jun 2023

Chile government faces backlash after U-turn on copper mine

Boris van der Spek 20 Jun 2023

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Jaka Hendra Baittri 6 Jun 2023

In Senegal, rice intensification helps farmers grow more with less

Noah Tobias 30 May 2023
A trefoil horseshoe bat

Flooding for hydropower dams hits forest-reliant bats hard, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 26 May 2023
A youth leader demonstrates the impact of oil production on the local community.

As Shell, Eni quit Niger Delta, state-backed report describes legacy of carnage

Ashoka Mukpo 16 May 2023
Overhead shot of two men standing in shallow water, bent over repairing a large wooden canoe. Image by Bolaji Eiseke via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

For weary Niger Delta residents, shocking oil pollution report offers little hope

Ini Ekott 16 May 2023

On the border of Colombia and Venezuela, illegal gold mining unites armed forces

Jose Guarnizo 12 May 2023
During their five-year project, To-Syn-Fuel converted more than 500 metric tons of dried sewage sludge into 50,000 liters (13,200 gallons) of oil.

Crud-to-crude: The global potential of biofuels made from human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 May 2023
Flooded road.

Dhaka faces manifold problems as water bodies diminish

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 10 May 2023
Aerial image of Tinipak River.

‘It gives life’: Philippine tribe fights to save a sacred river from a dam

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 May 2023
Mekong giant catfish

‘Chasing giants’: Q&A with megafish biologist and author Zeb Hogan

Carolyn Cowan 9 May 2023

A Guatemalan town fights to bar gold mining and save its waters

Jorge Rodríguez 9 May 2023

Colombian farmers turn deforested land into sustainable Amazonian farms

Antonio José Paz Cardona 8 May 2023

Madagascar: What happens to villagers when a graphite mine comes knocking?

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Apr 2023

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