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Gold mining erodes land cover in Pahuwato.

25-fold surge in malaria at Indonesia gold frontier raises deforestation questions

Zulkifli Mangkau 16 Sep 2024
A female bonobo.

DRC’s endangered bonobos face another threat to their survival: malaria

Ryan Truscott 22 Mar 2023
Waikas, Raraima, Brazil September 1st 2022 Robervaldo a young Yek'wana that used to work in a Garimpo. Photographed in his community Waikas near the venezuelian border. Photo © Victor Raison 2022, all rights reserved.

Indigenous youths lured by the illegal mines destroying their Amazon homeland

Victor Raison; Jean-Mathieu Albertini 30 Nov 2022
Christina Haverkamp (center), founder of the German NGO Hilfe Yanomami, with Indigenous children. The activist has been going to Brazil since the 1990s and says wildcat miners are disrupting the life of the Yanomami people. Image courtesy of Hilfe Yanomami.

At 30, Brazil’s Yanomami reserve is beset by mining, malaria and mercury

Peter Speetjens 9 Jun 2022

Oil palm plantations a ‘threat to global health,’ says study on outbreaks

Mongabay.com 28 May 2021

The sponge with the secret recipe: A cancer-fighting chemical

Julia John 8 Jul 2020

Malaria surges in deforested parts of the Amazon, study finds

John Cannon 23 Oct 2019

Peru’s first autonomous indigenous gov’t strikes back against deforestation

Marcio Pimenta 18 Apr 2019

Study links malaria to deforestation in the Amazon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 May 2018
A boy uses several mosquito nets to catch fish in the coastal waters near Chittagong, Bangladesh. Photo by R.C. Browmick.

Fishing with insecticide-laced mosquito nets is a global phenomenon

Benjamin Graham 6 Feb 2018

Farming and forest loss: study exposes malaria’s best friends

Jack Elliot Marley 16 Oct 2017

Focus on breeding sites and biodiversity to control Zika, says leading entomologist

Catharine Watson 15 Feb 2016

Human infections by ‘monkey malaria’ increasing as forests disappear

Loren Bell 10 Nov 2014

From theory to deadly reality: malaria moving upslope due to global warming

Jeremy Hance 6 Mar 2014

Hope rises as new malaria vaccine shows promise

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2013

Gold mine approved in French Guiana’s only national park

Jeremy Hance 15 Jan 2013

Cell phones help decipher malaria transmission in Kenya

Rina Shaikh-lesko 19 Nov 2012

Aloha, and welcome to the planet’s extinction capital

Mark Szotek 7 Nov 2011

Picture of the day: world’s scariest species

Jeremy Hance 31 Oct 2011

Malaria may hurt conservation efforts, aid poachers

Jeremy Hance 31 Jul 2011

Epidemic hits Amazonian indigenous group

Jeremy Hance 31 Oct 2010

Malaria meningkat 50 persen setelah penggundulan hutan di Amazon

Oleh Jeremy Hance 21 Jun 2010

Malaria increases 50 percent following deforestation in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 16 Jun 2010

Tropical forest tree is source of new mosquito repellent as effective as DEET

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2009

Global malaria map released – 35% of humanity at risk

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2008

Stopping malaria using smell

Vanderbilt University 31 Aug 2007

As wealthy get dengue fever, drug companies more likely to act

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2007

Global warming may worsen infectious disease

Mongabay.com 22 May 2007

Genetically engineered mosquitoes fight malaria

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2007

Is climate change worsening malaria?

University Of Michigan 21 Mar 2006

Malaria linked to Amazon deforestation

Rhett A. Butler 2 Feb 2006

Children spread malaria most says new study

Mongabay.com 24 Nov 2005

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