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In this Sep. 26, 2017 photo released by Ibama, the Brazilian Environmental and Renewable Natural Resources Institute, members a firefighter fighta a forest fire affecting Porquinhos Indigenous lands in Maranhao state in Brazil's Amazon basin. Image by Felipe Werneck/Ibama via AP.

More than half the world’s forests fragmented in 20 years — but protection works: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Sep 2025
Workers perform maintenance next to pools of brine slowly turning into lithium at the Albemarle lithium mine in Chile's Atacama desert. Photo by: AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd.

Lithium mining leaves severe impacts in Chile, but new methods exist: Report

Aimee Gabay 10 Sep 2025
A Halmahera woman peeling coconuts for copra.

Maluku coconut growers cry crisis as Indonesia land-grabs feed energy transition

Achmad Rizki Muazam 10 Sep 2025
IBAMA officers watch a camp on fire.

Brazil can green its environmental crime-fighting in the Amazon (commentary)

Anna Gielas 4 Sep 2025

Report links world’s top banks to social & environmental harms from mining

Aimee Gabay 3 Sep 2025

A Chinese mining company is accused of covering up the extent of a major toxic spill in Zambia

Associated Press 1 Sep 2025

Kafue River Transect

Ryan Truscott 30 Aug 2025
The waters along the Baliara coast, home to the Bajo people, have been contaminated by mining waste. Image courtesy of Satya Bumi.

Indonesia’s Bajau fishers lament nickel mining’s marine pollution

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2025
Venezuela Oil License

Venezuela tries an environmental rebrand, but critics aren’t buying it

Maxwell Radwin 19 Aug 2025
Equipment used in deep-sea mining. Photo by Richard Baron/The Metals Company

Deep-sea mining is a false solution to our challenges (commentary)

Pradeep Singh 19 Aug 2025
Banner image of an adult and baby orangutan at Betung Kerihun National Park in Indonesian Borneo, by Sabar Minsyah via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

World Orangutan Day: Ongoing threats & habitat loss haunt these great apes

Kristine Sabillo 19 Aug 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Bolivia’s upcoming elections?

Maxwell Radwin 15 Aug 2025

Study maps rare Borneo forests with unique habitats & urgent need for protection

Basten Gokkon 13 Aug 2025

Borneo killing linked to coal industry stays unsolved as Indonesia VP visits Dayak village

Muhibar Sobary Ardan 12 Aug 2025
Although operations like Green Shield are useful, experts say that they are not the solution for combatting illicit activities in the Amazon in the long run, as activities such as illegal mining continue to expand. Image courtesy of the UAE Ministry of Interior.

Formalizing small-scale gold mining can reduce environmental impacts & crime (commentary)

Robert Muggah 7 Aug 2025

Surge in critical minerals claims puts Brazil’s land reform communities at risk

Maurício Angelo; Lúcio Lambranho; Fábio Bispo and Gabriela Sarmet (The Mining Observatory) 6 Aug 2025
mining equipment on fire

Cross-border operation cracks down on environmental crimes in the Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 6 Aug 2025

Guinea iron ore megaproject pollutes waterways & farmland, communities say

Ashoka Mukpo 4 Aug 2025

In Ecuador, environmentalists worry Noboa is unwinding nation’s green reputation

Associated Press 4 Aug 2025

Centralized governance in the Guianas and economic legacy

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Aug 2025
Banner image of a remotely operated vehicle KIEL 6000 holding a manganese nodule in the sought-after Clarion-Clipperton Zone by the ROV-Team/GEOMAR via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

UN meeting closes with no moratorium on deep-sea mining; groups lament

Kristine Sabillo 1 Aug 2025

A sales-pitch pivot brings deep-sea mining closer to reality

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Jul 2025
Miners work at a legal mining concession in Huaypetue, Madre de Dios, Peru. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Mexico’s rising mercury trade fuels toxic gold mining in Latin America: Report

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jul 2025

Scientists & communities rush to save rare, diverse Brazilian grassland ecosystem

Letícia Klein 29 Jul 2025
Lena Estrada, Colombia's minister of environment. Image by Eduardo Santamaría.

Oil ‘does not guarantee stability’: Colombia’s environment minister on energy transition

Latoya Abulu 24 Jul 2025

Challenges persist in TMC’s bid to mine the deep sea, even after boost from Trump

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Jul 2025

Nickel boom on an Indonesian island brings toxic seas, lost incomes, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jul 2025
Camera-trap image of the caracal spotted in Kirthar National Park. The cat appeared only once during the span of two weeks of camera trapping.

In rare triumph, camera traps snap endangered wildcats in Pakistan

Sean Mowbray 21 Jul 2025
The Andean cat is a rare and endangered species highly specialized to life in the high Andes. It’s estimated that around 2,000 mature individuals, living in fragmented populations, are spread very thinly over a vast alpine expanse in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2025
Workers are visible at the Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park's compound in Central Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia, Friday, June 7, 2024. Indonesia has been building out a vast industry for nickel. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Indonesia tests shows blood mercury rising at ground zero of world energy transition

Rabul Sawal 9 Jul 2025
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with his environmental and climate change minister, Marina Silva on his first day in office on Jan. 1.

Why is Lula still silent on Brazil’s ‘Bill of devastation?’ (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 8 Jul 2025
Squat lobsters and soft coral in the deep sea.

U.S. federal agency clears ways for deep-sea mining — and companies are lining up

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jul 2025

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