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The Pan Amazon as a hotspot of cultural diversity

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Feb 2025

Surge in legal land clearing pushes up Indonesia deforestation rate in 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Feb 2025
Artisanal miners in Rubaya area, DRC.

How illicit mining fuels violence in eastern DRC: Interview with Jean-Pierre Okenda

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Feb 2025
frailejon tree paramo Ecuador

In Ecuador, a mountain shrub could hold the key to restoring a precious ecosystem

Christina Noriega 5 Feb 2025

As the gold rush surges in Nicaragua, Indigenous communities pay the price

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2025
Aerial view of coal mining in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.

Indonesia rushes mining law amendments, raising environmental and governance alarms

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jan 2025

In the Pan Amazon, inequality and informality fuel informal economies

Timothy J. Killeen 23 Jan 2025

Plans for bauxite mine in Suriname reignite Indigenous land rights debate

Maxwell Radwin 16 Jan 2025

Indonesian scientist under fire for revealing extent of illegal tin mining

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jan 2025

El Salvador reverses landmark mining ban, setting up clash with activists

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jan 2025
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Latin America in 2024: politics, turmoil and hope

Alexandra Popescu 3 Jan 2025

Conservation and the rise of corporations in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Jan 2025

An underground gold war in Colombia is ‘a ticking ecological time bomb’

Joshua Collins 31 Dec 2024

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024

The particularities of the migratory movement in Venezuela, the Guianas and Suriname

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Dec 2024

The fuel that moves people: the Ecuadorian case

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Dec 2024

Foreign investor lawsuits impede Honduras human rights & environment protections

Sarah Brown 12 Dec 2024

Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Dec 2024

In Brazil’s ‘water tank’, communities resist mining to preserve their water and livelihoods

Beatriz Miranda, Íria Borges 30 Nov 2024

Researchers find high levels of mercury in Amazon’s Madeira River water & fish

Kevin Damasio 27 Nov 2024

The effects of mass migration in Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Nov 2024

Lithium mining brings sickness to Jequitinhonha Valley communities

Caio Guatelli 18 Nov 2024

Activists fear supercharged ‘business as usual’ under Indonesia’s new president

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2024

For DRC’s artisanal miners, promise of formalization has yielded little

Didier Makal 29 Oct 2024

Trial begins in U.K. for victims of Minas Gerais dam disaster

Maxwell Radwin 28 Oct 2024

Mining and logging threaten Bolivia’s newest protected area

Iván Paredes Tamayo 24 Oct 2024

Dam terrorism: How mining companies in Brazil scare residents into relocating

Evanildo da Silveira 24 Oct 2024

Rural-urban migration across the Amazon Basin

Timothy J. Killeen 18 Oct 2024

In Ecuador, booming profits in small-scale gold mining reveal a tainted industry – investigation

Arturo Torres, Dan Collyns 3 Oct 2024
Ouk Mao showed reporters timber cut from the Phnom Chum Rok Sat community forest by loggers working for Lin Vatey. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay

Reporter who revealed deforestation in Cambodia now charged with deforestation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 27 Sep 2024

Permits granted for Colombia’s Alacrán mine amid pollution, deforestation concerns

Maxwell Radwin 20 Sep 2024

Wildcat miners: will cyanide displace mercury?

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Sep 2024

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