Environment

Fishing communities in Brazil are demanding legal recognition of 'marétorios' as Marine Spatial Planning and offshore wind expansion threaten traditional territories and livelihoods in the Amazônia Azul.

As Belém prepared for COP30, urban redevelopment projects deepened long-standing inequalities between the city centre and the baixadas, where rivers continue to disappear beneath concrete channels. Written before COP30 all the issues remain valid today for Belém and other cities hosting major international events.

Yuvelis Morales Blanco is part of the Alianza Colombia Libre de Fracking (Colombia Free from Fracking Alliance), a collective that has been engaged in...

ATRATO by Juan Covelli runs until 22 February 2026 at the V&A Photography Centre in South Kensington, London. Admission is free.

‘Indigenous Peoples, poor countries – those who contributed least to the crisis are the ones who show real ability to confront it,’ writes Jelson Oliveira, professor of philosophy at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) and founding-director of the Hans Jonas Professorship.

Colombia is at a crucial point as major projects led by Gustavo Petro’s government have hinged the country’s future on the promises of the energy transition. But this transition will not benefit people in Colombia by default. We hear from environmental defenders working across the coal corridor to protect their territories and ensure no one is left behind as mines close and renewable energy projects begin. 

Grassroots movements push for more inclusive climate governance as palm oil expansion threatens ancestral lands.

In Oaxaca, southern Mexico, communities are organizing to resist the large-scale private extraction of sand and gravel from the Río Grande, which is wiping...

Amid industrial pressure and legal rollbacks, a grassroots women's network fights for ancestral marine rights and cultural survival in Chile. ‘If they take the sea...

In March 2025, the rivers of Esmeraldas, an Ecuadorian province that for decades has suffered from the social and environmental impacts of the petrochemical industry, were heavily polluted by a 25,000-barrel crude oil spill. Afro-descendant communities, environmental defenders organized in solidarity networks, and local universities continue agitating the murky waters of a disaster the country would prefer had sunk into oblivion.