Renewable energy News

RSS

23 stories

In Honduras, local communities miss out on benefits of large-scale renewables

Mie Hoejris Dahl 6 Nov 2025

Cerro Rico mountain above the city of Potosí, Bolivia.

In the heart of Bolivia, the mountain that financed an empire risks collapsing

Benjamin Swift 22 Oct 2025

Uruguay’s green hydrogen plans raise ecological concerns in Argentina & at home

Ali Qassim 15 Sep 2025

Mounting corporate pressure on Honduras threatens community rights

Aimee Gabay 24 Jul 2025

A woman chants slogans during a march towards the Palace of Justice during the celebrations of "La Pachamama," or Mother Earth Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. The group´s protest that coincides with “La Pachamama Day” is also directed against a provincial constitutional reform they claim is an attempt against their ancestral rights to lands that the state aims to use for lithium mining. (AP Photo/R

In Latin America, energy transition stirs a rise in human rights lawsuits

Aimee Gabay 4 Jul 2025

Private financing for Argentina’s lithium is anything but green, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 1 Jul 2025

Boats sporting "No Dam" parade down the Salween River along the Thai-Myanmar border in March 2025. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Specter of dams and diversion looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River

Gerald Flynn 19 Jun 2025

hydroelectric dam

Revived hydropower project to bring forced displacement, Peru communities warn

Aimee Gabay 6 Jun 2025

Lithium Triangle mining may strain water sources more than expected, study says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Apr 2025

Brazil communities accuse companies of ‘green grabbing’ for wind energy

Jonathan Moens, Thomas Bauer 7 Mar 2025

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024

Significant deforestation was linked to the Lower Russei Chrum dam, which has been operational in Koh Kong province since 2015. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Hydropower dams further undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 28 Jun 2024

The sprawling Stung Meteuk hydropower dam being developed in the Cardamom Mountains appears to be illegally logging within Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

History repeats as logging linked to Cambodian hydropower dam in Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 27 Jun 2024

French court greenlights lawsuit against EDF over wind farm in Mexico

Chris Arsenault, Philippe Le Billon 26 Jun 2024

Pressure grows on banks to end business with Indonesian coal giant Adaro

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 May 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Mexico’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 27 May 2024

An aerial view over the Central Cardamoms National Park, one of several protected areas that constitute the Cardamom Mountains, an evergreen forest situated on the Thai-Cambodia border. In November 2023, the Cambodian government approved the construction of two new hydropower dams in the protected forest. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

New dams in Cambodia pit ‘green’ hydropower against REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn 20 Dec 2023

Indonesia pushes carbon-intensive ‘false solutions’ in its energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Dec 2023

Colombian wind farm end-of-life raises circularity and Indigenous questions

Natalia Torres Garzón 9 Nov 2023

Rainbow over rainforest in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia opens carbon trading market to both skepticism and hope

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Oct 2023

Rechargeable battery industry needs better mining regulations, report says

Maxwell Radwin 29 Sep 2023

Delay of Indonesia’s energy transition plan a chance to get public input

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Sep 2023

Aerial view of a road.

Study: Tricky balancing act between EV scale-up and mining battery metals

Liz Kimbrough 8 Sep 2023

you're currently offline