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Indonesians uprooted by mining industry call for a fairer future amid presidential vote

Petrus Riski, Taufik Wijaya 4 Mar 2024

Study points to which Amazon regions could reach tipping point & dry up

Fernanda Wenzel 29 Feb 2024

Megafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay

Sibélia Zanon and Luis Patriani 22 Feb 2024

With drop in illegal fishing comes rise in piracy, study in Indonesia finds

Basten Gokkon 22 Feb 2024
A rescue team rescuing pets after the aftermath of the landslide.

Landslide in Philippines mining town kills nearly 100, prompts calls for action

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 21 Feb 2024
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Postponement of century-old Indian Science Congress sparks controversy

Niladry Sarkar 15 Feb 2024

No sea change on marine policy from candidates as Indonesia heads to polls

Basten Gokkon 13 Feb 2024
A harvester harvesting soy in Brazil.

Meet the think tank behind the agribusiness’ legislative wins in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jan 2024

Climate change made 2023 Amazon drought 30 times more likely, scientists say

Carla Ruas 26 Jan 2024
The new 348,140-hectare (860,272-acre) Sierra Tecuani Biosphere Reserve in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Image by Joaquín Núñez Medrano.

Mexico announces 20 new protected areas despite budget cuts

Aimee Gabay 25 Jan 2024

Lula’s ambitious green agenda runs up against Congress’s agribusiness might

André Schröder 25 Jan 2024

Guyana Amerindian communities fear Venezuela’s move to annex oil-rich region

Aimee Gabay 17 Jan 2024

Amazon chocolatiers: Biofactory offers ‘new way of living’ for forest communities

Sarah Brown 2 Jan 2024
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 28 Dec 2023

With half its surface water area lost, an Amazonian state runs dry

Amanda Magnani 26 Dec 2023

‘The police are watching’: In Mekong countries, eco defenders face rising risks

Hướng Thiện 18 Dec 2023

Outcry as Brazil Congress overrides president to revive anti-Indigenous law

Sarah Brown 15 Dec 2023

Prolonged drought brings unprecedented changes to Amazonian communities in Pará

Sarah Brown 6 Dec 2023

Sieged by mining and megaprojects, the Munduruku push for land rights in the Amazon

Sam Cowie 1 Dec 2023

New algorithm looks at how Amazon vegetation will behave after climate change

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 29 Nov 2023

Panama copper mine to close after Supreme Court rules concession unconstitutional

Maxwell Radwin 28 Nov 2023
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesia welcomes new Singapore regulation to help curb lobster smuggling

Basten Gokkon 18 Nov 2023
An anonymous pipeline-affected person in Tanzania, January 2022.

Disturbing graves is latest violation attributed to East African oil pipeline

Justin Catanoso 14 Nov 2023

Amazon drought: Much damage still to come (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Rosimeire Araújo Silva 1 Nov 2023
Cattle raising in recently destroyed forestland in the municipality Aripuanã, in Mato Grosso state.

Amazon recovery offers hope of big rewards but poses equally big challenges

Carla Ruas 31 Oct 2023

People and nature suffer as historic drought fuels calamitous Amazon fires

André Schröder 24 Oct 2023

Lula partially blocks anti-Indigenous land rights bill, but trouble isn’t over

Sarah Brown 24 Oct 2023
Yanomami Indigenous

Study: Despite armed conflicts, Indigenous lands have better environment quality

Spoorthy Raman 19 Oct 2023
Women harvest lemongrass in the Chisapani Community Forest, Nepal.

Nepal’s constitutional bench halts ‘triple taxation’ on community forests

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Oct 2023
Nnimmo Bassey and the team at the spill site at Eteo community in Ogoni, Rivers State.

Stop playing politics with climate change: Q&A with Nigeria’s Nnimmo Bassey

Abdulkareem Mojeed 17 Oct 2023
Protesters traveled from Las Naves, and across the country, to protest mining activities in their communities in front of the Constitutional Court, during a hearing to debate Decree 754 on September 18, 2023.

Tensions flare as Ecuador’s environment consultation process is put to the test

Kimberley Brown 16 Oct 2023
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz speaks at the Equator Prize 2015 Award Ceremony at Theatre Mogador on December 7, 2015 in Paris, France. Image courtesy of Victoria Tauli-Corpuz.

Indigenous environmental defenders among favorites for Nobel Peace Prize

Dimitri Selibas 11 Oct 2023

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