New Future

Some of the most conflictive issues in the Pan Amazon revolve around construction of major infrastructure, industrial development, and mining. In the 1970s, when the Tranzamazônica was being built and oil exploration was getting underway, the requirement to conduct an environmental impact assessment did not exist.

ÑÜRÜM, Panama — Isidrio Hernandez-Ruiz has a soft spot for the bright yellow flowers of the guayacan trumpet tree , a native species that blooms across Panama each spring.

In the last decade, report after report has warned that the Arctic is heating up faster than ever, cities are scorching, the Amazon is blazing, boreal forests are shrinking and the oceans are simmering — all because of human-caused climate change (How do we know?

“Absolutely disgusting, so grim, the worst fieldwork of my life, but also extremely rewarding in a very odd way, ” said Julia Grootaers, describing her three months collecting data among rotting pig carcasses in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula. For her master’s thesis at the University of Exeter, U. K.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva lives in a “disinformation space, ” to use the term coined by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to describe U. S. President Donald Trump.

Agricultural expansion in two Brazilian states has cleared a U. K -sized area of jaguar habitat, nearly a fifth of which occurred in the last decade alone, a new report shows.

Sightings of a young harpy eagle in southern Mexico’s Lacandon Jungle in 2023 have now been verified, marking the first time in more than a decade that South America’s largest bird of prey has been spotted in the country, contributor Astrid Arellano reported for Mongabay Latam.

JAKARTA — For years, Mikael Ane, an Indigenous farmer from the island of Flores in eastern Indonesia, has faced prison not for harming the environment, but for trying to protect his ancestral land. In 2013, he was sentenced to 1.

Hundreds of protesters, including young and Indigenous peoples from three coastal villages, have demanded the closure of sand dredging in Indonesia’s West Sulawesi over environmental concerns and permit violations.

GOTU, Kenya — Under the shade of an acacia tree in northern Kenya’s sweltering dry season, a group of elders have gathered to discuss community business in the town of Gotu. Two hours or so from the regional capital of Isiolo, the small but bustling cattle town of Gotu is typical of Kenya’s northern rangeland.

“We’re going to just keep mopping the ocean, ” said Toya Manchineri, referring to Brazil’s administration effort to expel illegal miners from two Munduruku Indigenous territories in Pará state.

A recent report by the nonprofit Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV) found that the operations of French retailer Casino Group in Brazil could be linked to more than half a million hectares of deforestation between 2018 and 2023. According to ICV, 526,459 hectares (approximately 1.

Nonrecyclable food and beverage packaging dominates the trash littering the Indian Himalayas, according to a recent report. Since 2018, regional alliances Zero Waste Himalaya and Integrated Mountain Initiative have organized an annual campaign during the last week of May called The Himalayan Cleanup.

Researchers have confirmed the presence of a rare gecko species atop an isolated South African mountain, accessible only by helicopter, more than 30 years after it was last seen.