On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, celebrating Earth’s unsung environmental stewards
To recognize the significant role Indigenous peoples’ play in global conservation efforts, Mongabay rounds up some of this year’s most impactful stories.
Top Trump official for pipeline safety profits from selling oil spill equipment
Pearce's company was awarded three different federal contracts and provided waste disposal equipment to the Department of Defense.
Supreme Court Backs EPA, Refuses to Block Mercury Emissions Rule
The Mercury and Air Toxic Standards rule, which tightens restrictions on harmful pollutants that are byproducts of burning coal, was challenged by 20 states
What the Exxon tapes reveal about the American Petroleum Institute’s lobbying tactics on oil...
The top oil trade group, which a senior Exxon lobbyist recently described as one of the company’s “whipping boys,” used similar delay tactics to push back against oil-by-rail safety rules.
How Bolsonaro’s climate change denial & anti-indigenous policies led to massive fires in the...
In Brazil, fires continue to rage in the Amazon, and new drone footage shows the smoke and flames gathering strength. A vast...
Exposed: Toward a BPA-free future
"It's just as bad as the climate in terms of its impact on living things. It's arguably faster acting, and hardly anyone knows about it."
The strategy of maximal extraction
This is how Donald Trump plans to enlist fossil fuels in the struggle for global dominance.
School strike for climate: Meet 15-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, who inspired a global movement
“We need to change ourselves now, because tomorrow it might be too late.”
Louisiana’s Cancer Alley residents sue chemical plant for nearly 50 years of air pollution
The magnitude of this injustice is driving people to make sure their community’s voice is heard.
‘What betrayal looks like’: UN report says world on track for 2.7°C of warming...
"Failure to meet this goal will be measured in the massive loss of lives and livelihoods."