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‘Mercury is a complex problem’: Q&A with Colombian Mining Minister Irene Vélez Torres

Charlie Espinosa, Charles Lyons 20 Feb 2023

For some Colombians, vows of mining reform are just a flash in the pan

Charlie Espinosa, Charles Lyons 20 Feb 2023

Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?

Maxwell Radwin 7 Feb 2023

Indigenous communities threatened as deforestation rises in Nicaraguan reserves

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jan 2023
An overflight conducted by Greenpeace and Instituto Socioambiental in December 2022 spotted four excavators near an illegal road recently discovered inside the Yanomami Indigenous territory, one of the most endangered areas of Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon.

Illegal road found in Yanomami land accelerates destruction

Dimitri Selibas 26 Jan 2023

Venezuela’s Yapacana National Park suffering increasing mining deforestation: report

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jan 2023

Shady contracts, backdoor deals spur illegal gold mining in Bolivian Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2022
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Can Two New Bills Reshape Indigenous Rights and Illegal Gold Mining in Suriname?

Charles Lyons, Charlie Espinosa 14 Sep 2022

In revising its criminal code, Indonesia risks unraveling environmental laws

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2022

Fighting extractive industries in Ecuador: Q&A with Indigenous rights activist María Espinosa

Maxwell Radwin 22 Aug 2022

‘The water is brown’: Community in Guyana rings the alarm over unsustainable mining near river

David Papannah, Laurel Sutherland 11 Aug 2022

Brazilian miners ramp up their invasion of Yanomami land in Venezuela

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jul 2022

Mining company destroys Indigenous cemetery during expansion in Honduras

Maxwell Radwin 21 Jun 2022

Miners, drug traffickers and loggers: Is Costa Rica’s Corcovado National Park on the verge of collapse?

Maxwell Radwin 20 Jun 2022

Court setback doesn’t sway Indonesian villagers fighting a mining firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2022

New report pieces together toll of environmental damage in Venezuela in 2021

Maxwell Radwin 20 Apr 2022

Chinese investment in Latin America plagues people and nature: Report

Maxwell Radwin 24 Mar 2022

Honduras bans open-pit mining, citing environmental and public health concerns

Maxwell Radwin 3 Mar 2022

Mexico’s top court cancels mining concessions near Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 18 Feb 2022

Mongabay’s 10 hardest-hitting investigations of 2021

Maxwell Radwin 29 Dec 2021

U.K. conglomerate Jardines ‘caught red-handed’ clearing orangutan habitat in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Dec 2021
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In Guinea, an illegal $6b gold ‘bonanza’ threatens endangered chimpanzees

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Oct 2021

Environmental defenders in Nicaragua denounce government crackdown as elections loom

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2021

Activists take Indonesia’s mining law to court, but don’t expect much

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jul 2021

New clearing of forest in protected area in Brazil linked to mining

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2021

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