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A blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Forest modeling misses the water for the carbon: Q&A with Antonio Nobre & Anastassia Makarieva

Judith D. Schwartz 7 Feb 2023
Forests of Bolivia.

Reciprocal Water Agreements protect millions of hectares of Bolivian forest

Michelle Carrere 19 Jan 2023
lagoon

Locals fight to save ‘a piece of the sea’ in Venezuela’s Andes

María Fernanda Rodríguez and Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 5 Jan 2023

In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2022
Humberto Sánchez.

Shadows of oil in Peru: Shipibo people denounce damage, contamination left by company

Enrique Vera 26 Dec 2022
A green lizard.

Threatened cloud forests key to billions of dollars worth of hydropower: Report

John Cannon 13 Dec 2022
Waikas, Raraima, Brazil September 1st 2022 Robervaldo a young Yek'wana that used to work in a Garimpo. Photographed in his community Waikas near the venezuelian border. Photo © Victor Raison 2022, all rights reserved.

Indigenous youths lured by the illegal mines destroying their Amazon homeland

Victor Raison; Jean-Mathieu Albertini 30 Nov 2022
Saliou Hassana, a 17-year-old gold miner, extracting and collecting gold nuggets using mercury at Kambélé III. Image © Yannick Kenné.

About 72% of gold miners poisoned with mercury at artisanal mining sites in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 29 Nov 2022

Will shipping noise nudge Africa’s only penguin toward extinction?

Leonie Joubert 21 Nov 2022

Ahead of polls, Nepal’s political parties, voters take heed of climate impacts

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Nov 2022

Sulawesi nickel plant coats nearby homes in toxic dust

Eko Rusdianto 17 Nov 2022

Dam construction ignites Indigenous youth movement in southern Chile

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022
An African penguin standing sleepily in a patch of green. Image by Alberto Ziveri via Flickr (BY-SA 2.0)

Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2022

Mercury rising: Why Bolivia remains South America’s hub for the toxic trade

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2022
paramos

Avocado farming is threatening Colombia’s natural water factory

Emily Senkosky 1 Nov 2022
Shoebills are one of the endangered species that rely on Lake Victoria in Uganda. Image by Emilie Chen via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

East Africa should promote renewable energy, not oil pipelines (commentary)

Dickens Kamugisha 1 Nov 2022
A black river turtle on a log

For water quality, even a sliver of riverbank forest is better than none

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2022

On the roof of the world, water is life. Or a sign of it, thanks to eDNA

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 Oct 2022
Fishmongers in the Ndji village market get by with very little. Image by Yannick Kenné.

“Largest of its kind” dam in Cameroon faces backlash from unimpressed fishmongers

Yannick Kenné 13 Oct 2022
A man fishing in Brazil

Putting a price on water: Can commodification resolve a world water crisis?

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 30 Sep 2022
Residents of Port-au-Prince wait outside a store to purchase bottled water.

Haiti: An island nation whose environmental troubles only begin with water

Conrad Fox 28 Sep 2022
A resident of Asunción Mita confirms his identity and signature to vote in a school classroom during a municipal referendum on mining. Image by Sandra Cuffe.

Guatemalans strongly reject mining project in local referendum

Sandra Cuffe 23 Sep 2022
A veriety of drugs in vials and an IV bottle.

Humans are dosing Earth’s waterways with medicines. It isn’t healthy.

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Sep 2022
Boats on the Padma River

Latest water-sharing deal between Bangladesh, India is ‘drop in the ocean’

Abu Siddique 14 Sep 2022
Josefina Santiago in her agroecological farm where she crops maize, beans, and pumpkins close to the water pans. El Porvenir, San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico, May 2022, Monica Pelliccia

On the frontlines of drought, communities in Mexico strive to save every drop of water

Monica Pelliccia 6 Sep 2022
A side-striped jackal (Lupulella adusta), one of the many species that inhabits the Mau Forest. Image by Bernard Dupont via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Poverty-fueled deforestation threatens Kenya’s largest water catchment

Keit Silale 22 Aug 2022
Hafidh Wanje stands near a creek.

As their land and water turns saline, Kenyan communities take on salt firms

Anthony Langat 18 Aug 2022
Misak women, men and children observe the contrast between the monoculture pine and eucalyptus plantation, on the right, and the natural forest in their territory, on the left, from a distance.

FSC-certified paper plantation faces farmer backlash in Colombia

Natalia Torres Garzón 15 Aug 2022
A water reservoir near Cape Town, South Africa.

Drought-beset South African city taps aquifer, shirks long-term solutions: Critics

Anna Majavu 11 Aug 2022
Farmers work at a paddy field in Nepal.

Lack of timely rains, fertilizer hits rice farmers in Nepal’s granary

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Aug 2022
People line up to collect water from a community tap.

Water-stressed Bangladesh looks to recharge its fast-depleting aquifers

Mahadi Al Hasnat 3 Aug 2022
Ulu MUda's forests are home to the endangered lar gibbon (Hylobates lar). Habitat loss is one of the species' primary threats. Image by JJ Harrison via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Deforestation intensifies in northern Malaysia’s most important water catchment

Rachel Teng Ruiqi 28 Jul 2022

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