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Mortgaging the future: Report details risks of resource-backed loans

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2020

Map reveals Canadian mining company’s environmental, social conflicts

John Cannon 2 Mar 2020

Companies leave communities to grapple with mining’s persistent legacy

John Cannon 28 Feb 2020

Mining could topple community-managed forests in Mexico: New film

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2020

Philippines turns to EU’s Copernicus in Earth satellite data collaboration

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2020

Database offers new details on the dams that hold mining waste

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2020

For Ecuador, a litany of environmental challenges awaits in 2020

Antonio José Paz Cardona 5 Feb 2020

Philippine study finds microplastics inside a commonly consumed fish

Mongabay.com 23 Jan 2020

Mass tree planting along India’s Cauvery River has scientists worried

Nanditha Chandraprakash 22 Jan 2020

Concerns about radioactive contamination dog Rio Tinto’s Madagascar mine

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Dec 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

It’s time for Climate Bonds Initiative to scrap its hydro certification scheme (commentary)

Josh Klemm 10 Dec 2019

In Indonesia, a tourism village holds off a nickel mine — for now

Ian Morse 8 Dec 2019

Analysis: Floating solar power along the dammed-up Mekong River

David E. Brown 3 Dec 2019

A Philippine tribe that defeated a dam prepares to fight its reincarnation

Leilani Chavez 5 Nov 2019

Controversial dam gets green light to flood a Philippine protected area

Leilani Chavez 30 Oct 2019

Reforesting a village in Indonesia, one batch of gourmet beans at a time

Donny Iqbal 17 Oct 2019

Biodiversity ‘not just an environmental issue’: Q&A with IPBES ex-chair Robert Watson

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2019

Companies’ solutions to global plastic crisis miss the mark: Report

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2019

Climate adaptation begins with how we manage water (commentary)

Claudia Sadoff 12 Sep 2019

For Indonesia’s Kendari Bay, silting is a death sentence

Ian Morse 28 Aug 2019
Copernicus / Landsat image of the Amazon River as seen via Google Earth.

A healthy and productive Amazon is the foundation of Brazil’s sovereignty (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Aug 2019

Indigenous communities, nat’l parks suffer as Malaysia razes its reserves

Kit Humphrey 23 Aug 2019

Colombia: Indigenous Yukpa besieged by deforestation and armed conflict

Julián Sáenz, Semana Sostenible 19 Aug 2019
Villagers from Farihitsara gather near the proposed dam site. Tozzi Green, the Italian company responsible for the hydroelectric project, marked some of the rocks when it did research at the site. Image by Edward Carver for Mongabay.

In Madagascar, villagers oppose plans for a dam that would inundate their land

Edward Carver 18 Jul 2019
A meeting of the Benetse chapter of Mazoto, a group opposed to Base Resources’s mining project. Image by Edward Carver for Mongabay.

Madagascar mine ignites protests, community division

Edward Carver 2 Jul 2019

As climate chaos escalates in Indian Country, feds abandon tribes

Saul Elbein 1 Jul 2019

More than 50 lakes lie hidden beneath Greenland ice sheet, study finds

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2019
Dredged ilmenite-rich sand awaits processing outside QMM's Tolagnaro plant in southeastern Madagascar. Image by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

The mine that promised to protect the environment: A cautionary tale

Malavika Vyawahare 21 Jun 2019
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Alliance launches plan to save the planet

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2019
Red-billed tropicbird (Phaeton aethereus) at Abrolhos Marine National Park. Image by Mia Morete via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Brazil green-lights oil prospecting near important marine park

Thais Borges 31 May 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

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