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For Central America, climate bill could top hundreds of billions annually

Dimitri Selibas 21 Jun 2023

Palm oil company in Ecuador operates illegally on ancestral land, community says

Maxwell Radwin 19 Jun 2023

Landfill in Colombia continues to pollute protected wetlands despite court-ordered clean-up

Maxwell Radwin 12 Jun 2023
Park rangers

Warfare for wildlife: Q&A with Rosaleen Duffy

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Jun 2023
Burned peat forest in Borneo.

Peatlands, Indonesia’s carbon trove, are mostly unprotected, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jun 2023

New index identifies marine reserves that are protected in theory only

Juliette Portala 31 May 2023
Huge logs are delivered daily to the Koh Kong provincial prison in Cambodia

Forest behind bars: Logging network operating out of Cambodian prison in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 26 May 2023

Forest conservation efforts in Peru are failing across the board, study says

Kimberley Brown 25 May 2023

Critics question causes behind major oil spill in Ecuadorian Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 22 May 2023

Chemical spill in Nicaraguan reserve raises questions about industrial mining regulations

Maxwell Radwin 19 May 2023

New research finds slow forest recovery in the Andes — and ways to improve

Mark Hillsdon 16 May 2023

Amazon Rainforest loss could reach new height in just 5 years, study says

Sarah Brown 11 May 2023

Inaugural Indigenous women’s forum spotlights Congo Basin conservation

Elodie Toto 10 May 2023

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

Jorge Rodríguez 9 May 2023

New study reveals fine detail on location and scale of mining sites worldwide

Ashoka Mukpo 8 May 2023

Guatemala national park nearing ‘collapse’ amid land grabbing, deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 4 May 2023

Mexico approves mining reforms to protect environment, Indigenous people

Maxwell Radwin 2 May 2023

Still time to save Brazil’s Cerrado, study shows, but it’s running out fast

Maurício Brum 2 May 2023

High-carbon peat among 1,500 hectares cleared for Indonesia’s food estate

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Apr 2023

Meet the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 24 Apr 2023

Camera trap images of rare gorillas with infants bring hope in DRC

Liz Kimbrough 21 Apr 2023

Report warns of rising violence against environmental defenders in Mexico

Maxwell Radwin 21 Apr 2023

Conservationists unite to tackle Latin America’s dog threat to wild cats

Sean Mowbray 19 Apr 2023

Pumas create nutrient-rich ‘kill gardens’ to attract prey: Study

Liz Kimbrough 17 Apr 2023

Study shows mountain forests being lost at ‘alarming rate,’ especially in Asia

Liz Kimbrough 13 Apr 2023

National corridor project aims to save Chile’s endangered huemul deer

Sean Mowbray 6 Apr 2023
House on stilts built illegally in the Lowé mangrove in Libreville, Gabon. Proto taken on March 3, 2023 by Elodie Toto

Libreville’s shrinking mangroves leave Gabon’s capital prone to floods

Elodie Toto 6 Apr 2023

Peru national park sees deforestation spike despite carbon credit program: report

Maxwell Radwin 6 Apr 2023

Brazil pulp and paper company Klabin touts ‘green’ image despite mining interests

Maiara Marinho, Naira Hofmeister, from Repórter Brasil 4 Apr 2023

Ecuador court upholds ‘rights of nature,’ blocks Intag Valley copper mine

Liz Kimbrough 31 Mar 2023

Mexico’s Tren Maya hotel construction clears forest reserve without permits

Maxwell Radwin 29 Mar 2023
Forest in Peru.

Citizen-run conservation booms in South America, despite state neglect

Shanna Hanbury 28 Mar 2023

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