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

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 May 2024

Ecuador’s Los Lobos narcotrafficking gang muscles in on illegal gold mining

Arturo Torres, Dan Collyns 28 May 2024
The James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green credentials of electric vehicles come under fire

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 23 May 2024

Chile to protect some salt flats, but selection lacks data, scientists say

Barinia Montoya 22 May 2024

Global markets and their effects on resource exploitation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 May 2024

Amplifying Indigenous voices at the global level: Interview with Dario Mejía Montalvo

Dimitri Selibas 20 May 2024
Oil refinery smokestacks along the Athabasca River, in northern Alberta, Canada.

Canada oil sands air pollution 20-64 times worse than industry says: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 16 May 2024
Armed police and military forces called by a Canadian mining company carry out operations in Sigchos

As miner quells protests in Ecuador, Canadian firms’ rights record faces scrutiny

Aimee Gabay 15 May 2024

Extractive industries look at degraded land to avoid further deforestation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 15 May 2024
shrimp farm

Venezuela’s shrimp farms push for sustainability against hardship and oil spills

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres, María Fernanda Rodríguez 15 May 2024
a western chimpanzee in a tree

Setback for Guinea mine that threatens World Heritage chimp reserve

Ashoka Mukpo 15 May 2024

Environmental defenders paid the price during Panama’s historic mining protests – report

Maxwell Radwin 14 May 2024

Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition

Didier Makal 14 May 2024

Fishers, scientists restore mangroves on a Mexican isle wrecked by salt mining

Astrid Arellano 13 May 2024

Is the extractive sector really favorable for the Pan Amazon’s economy?

Timothy J. Killeen 8 May 2024
city view

In Brazil, half a century of salt mining sinks a city, displacing thousands

Peter Speetjens 6 May 2024

State management and regulation of extractive industries in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 2 May 2024

Indigenous Philippine village rejects gold mine, cites flawed consultation

Michael Beltran 1 May 2024

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

Maxwell Radwin 30 Apr 2024

Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive

Maxwell Radwin 29 Apr 2024
Silvia Vetancourt holds out a coin purse she is crocheting from cabuya fiber on the path to Plaza Gutierrez, Ecuador. Photo by Liz Kimbrough.

Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley

Liz Kimbrough 25 Apr 2024
oil spill Peru

Latest Peruvian oil spill cuts Indigenous communities from life-giving river

Sarah Brown 25 Apr 2024

Outdated infrastructure and oil spills: the cases of Colombia, Peru and Ecuador

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Apr 2024
Nasidi holds up a water lettuce plant, which is often found in the Lenggang River.

Indigenous community fights to save its lands on Indonesia’s historic tin island

Moh. Tamimi 25 Apr 2024
A stone quarry in Bangladesh's Sylhet District.

Forest officer’s killing highlights Bangladesh authorities’ waning power

Rafiqul Islam 24 Apr 2024
This land once belonged to the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous people, who depended on the dense forest to hunt and fish.

International hesitancy to adopt environmental regulations threatens Indigenous rights

Aimee Gabay 17 Apr 2024

The environmental mismanagement of enduring oil industry impacts in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Apr 2024

Indigenous efforts to save Peru’s Marañon River could spell trouble for big oil

Carla Ruas 17 Apr 2024
In the heart of the Cardamom Mountains, new hydropower dams threaten both protected forest and REDD+ projects. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas bear the brunt as forest loss continues across Cambodia

Gerald Flynn 17 Apr 2024
Mercury being used to agglomerate gold.

Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Apr 2024

Rapid growth of Bolivia’s lithium industry creating new problems for local communities

Maxwell Radwin 15 Apr 2024
Informal logging road

Unseen and unregulated: ‘Ghost’ roads carve up Asia-Pacific tropical forests

Carolyn Cowan 11 Apr 2024

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