Who gains from saving nature
Ledger 1 : 33 — For each dollar financing nature-based solutions in 2023, about $33 financed activities harmful to nature. (UNEP)
The record of absence

Gaps

What the record does not hold is recorded too: figures never published, harm never measured, claims never verified, cases never heard in court. Each gap is labelled and linked to its case.

Nature · 1327Money · 23Court · 275Insurers · 71Figures · 231Accounts · 517Record · 4616
CaseGapsNone on recordNot disclosedInsufficientSelf-reported onlyNot measuredDisputedUnclear
EACOP pipeline: insurers decline, construction continues31641713
BP Deepwater Horizon: the spill, the court cases and the recovery claims2671189
Exxon Valdez: the spill, insurance and court cases2511662
Samarco Fundão dam collapse (Mariana): the settlement and the court cases257567
DuPont PFOA (C8) at Washington Works, Parkersburg, and the Tennant farm2010442
IMIP nickel waste landslides and Obi island (Indonesia)2045164
Ngorongoro and Loliondo relocations1973252
Posidonia oceanica meadows (Balearics, Mediterranean)193718
Paraquat litigation (Syngenta/Chevron) and the Paraquat Papers1957115
DuPont, Chemours and Corteva: PFAS cost-sharing and water-system settlement1938152
Kaeng Krachan: Karen evictions and the disappearance of Billy1957142
England and Wales water privatisation and Thames Water: debt, dividends and the record Ofwat fine1921061
Amazon Soy Moratorium1938242
Trans Mountain pipeline insurers (Canada)1862145
Ogoniland and Bodo spills clean-up (SPDC, HYPREP)1875132
Northern Kenya Grasslands Carbon Project and the Isiolo court ruling1732417
Running Tide ocean carbon removal (Maine/Iceland)1771315
Roundup litigation, settlements and legal shield (Bayer/Monsanto)17323162
Bottom trawling in European marine protected areas1652162
Chemours spin-off liabilities1637132
Deep-sea mining: TMC, NORI, the NOAA permit and the ISA1644251
Occidental Stratos direct air capture plant (Texas)16217141
Pacific tuna Vessel Day Scheme155451
World Bank and development bank accountability mechanisms: Embobut (Sengwer), Tata Mundra, Arun III, Jale, Cambodia1527141
3M PFOS: internal evidence, EPA penalty and Minnesota settlement1545132
Coca-Cola and ILSI: influence on obesity policy in China and India156612
Nexia Biotechnologies: BioSteel spider-silk goats and Protexia15516111
Half-Earth and 30x30 advocacy funding (Wyss Campaign for Nature)15414132
Save the Whales campaign and IWC whaling moratorium152922
Baia Mare cyanide spill14824
The Metals Company deep-sea nodule mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (NOAA permit route)14114161
Dutch nitrogen crisis and farm buyouts1419121
Delta Blue Carbon mangrove project (Pakistan)1452115
British Columbia old-growth deferrals and mill closures143614
Mekong sand mining (Cambodia, Vietnam)143461
Salar de Atacama lithium extraction142813
Sengwer evictions from Embobut forest and the EU Water Towers programme (Kenya)1433161
Corio, ABP and forest land investments (Netherlands)1426132
Kaziranga shoot-on-sight killings (India)1445131
Colossal Biosciences: de-extinction ventures, funding and the Burgum remark1441513
Río Sonora copper sulphate spill and repair fund141571
Sino-Metals Leach tailings dam failure and the Kafue River (Zambia)146242
Cali Fund (digital sequence information)1454131
Kariba REDD+ project (Zimbabwe)1324142
Insurers of the Carmichael coal mine13311134
PFAS insurance disputes (3M, Chemours, DuPont)134135
IMF whale-value paper and Baffinland narwhal pilot1334141
Used cooking oil and POME biofuel certification fraud (ISCC, EU/UK)1333133
US syndicated conservation easement tax shelters (EcoVest, Fisher and Sinnott)1334132
Atlantik Confidence deliberate sinking (Oman)1323152
US Endangered Species Act rollbacks 2025–2026 (God Squad Gulf exemption, critical habitat rules)1325132
1,4-dioxane in Tide: Prop 65 settlement and New York limit131111
Whaling after the moratorium (Japan, Norway, Iceland)1311542
Big Tech data-centre emissions accounting (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta)1341215
Net-Zero Insurance Alliance collapse and insurers’ fossil underwriting138113
CIHEAM Bari and Italian state funding139121
Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine; Wiwa v Shell123432
Coral reef parametric insurance, Quintana Roo1231161
Salonga National Park ranger abuses (DR Congo)1214133
Nepal community forestry1232151
Ok Tedi mine (Papua New Guinea)124143
MV Wakashio oil spill (Mauritius)1217112
Gabon debt-for-nature swap12413121
Australian government water purchase from Eastern Australia Agriculture (Cayman-linked firm)125133
Tobacco groups' diversification into oil, food and shipping12291
Chlorpyrifos: exports of an EU-banned pesticide124611
Bhutan constitutional forest rule and Bhutan for Life121713
Green tobacco sickness in Rio Grande do Sul and tobacco curing deforestation123711
Fresh Del Monte closure of four Costa Rica banana farms128112
Berta Cáceres killing and Agua Zarca dam1222143
Kahuzi-Biega National Park: Batwa evictions and killings1231152
Northern cod collapse, reopening and Little Bay Islands (Newfoundland)12372
Prestige1165
Vale Brumadinho dam collapse11713
California homeowners' insurance retreat1152121
California forest offsets buffer pool and wildfire114142
World Bank REGROW project, Ruaha National Park113512
X-Press Pearl ship disaster (Sri Lanka)1117111
Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal1124131
Southern Cardamom REDD+ project and the arrest of Pork Nget (Cambodia)1132132
WWF independent review (Pillay panel) and US funding suspension1112143
El Salvador debt-for-nature swap116311
Green Belt Movement and Karura Forest, Kenya1114123
Cambodian sand exports to Singapore (Koh Kong, Mekong, Bassac)11533
Lliuya v RWE1114141
Mau Forest loss and forest excisions (Kenya)1124131
Olkaria geothermal projects (Kenya)1152112
Earthshot Prize funders, DP World and Edelman Cannes award112513
Clayoquot Sound protection (Canada)111712
Plastic Bank and rePurpose collector schemes1131511
Paraquat bans, UK production for export and Chinese exports1115131
Marine genetic sequence patents (BASF) and BBNJ11281
PPL Therapeutics collapse and transgenic sheep cull (Scotland, New Zealand)11461
Energy Transfer v Greenpeace (Dakota Access)1121161
California v. ExxonMobil: plastics recycling claims and the Baytown plant1132132
Cobre Panamá mine closure116122
Hebei Spirit oil spill1033121
ClearSpace-1 and Astroscale debris-removal missions1043111
Mongolia index livestock insurance1015121
Great Pacific Garbage Patch and The Ocean Cleanup1031213
BP “Beyond Petroleum” campaign and carbon footprint calculator10112132
Kiribati PIPA opened to fishing101612
Resolute Forest Products v Greenpeace1011413
Lake Turkana Wind Power and the Marsabit-Suswa transmission line delay106112
Chlordecone in the French Antilles1037
Fosen wind farm and Sámi reindeer herders102611
Phosphate detergents and Lake Erie eutrophication; phosphate bans10811
Bazooka Rhadebe murder and Xolobeni mine (South Africa)1031222
UNESCO World Heritage listings and Indigenous rights104312
Newfoundland and Labrador community resettlement programmes101612
Hyphen green hydrogen project (Namibia)10514
Coca-Cola plastic pledges and brand audits1021133
India CAMPA compensatory afforestation fund1032122
Torrey Canyon spill and creation of the IOPC Funds104222
TNC Hawaii coral reef parametric insurance105131
Harita Nickel, Kawasi chromium-6 water and sago loss (Obi Island)1021142
Leonard Leo network and the anti-ESG campaign104213
Mekong upstream dams and the decline of Tonle Sap flow reversal103331
TotalEnergies Batéké acacia carbon project (Congo)1041113
Make Sunsets stratospheric balloon launches (Mexico)10212122
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories: recombinant spider silk claims1034111
Chevron, Texaco and the Lago Agrio judgment: the RICO ruling and the Donziger cases102152
Plastic recycling symbol, resin codes and “advanced recycling” claims (United States)103151
EU woody biomass and Enviva pellets10514
PG&E wildfire settlement, tax deduction and Fire Victim Trust105131
Ethiopia: 353 million seedlings in a day95211
Drax biomass subsidies915111
Alto Mayo REDD+ project (Peru)94311
McKinsey advice to COP28 presidency and fossil clients93213
Çöpler (İliç) heap leach collapse954
Kolontár red mud spill (Hungary)94122
Adidas x Parley ocean plastic shoes94212
Verra plastic credits9414
Frontier buyers' club, Microsoft and the Puro.earth / Exomad Green biochar deal941211
Kirazlı gold mine (Alamos Gold), Kaz Dağları, Çanakkale95121
Juan López killing and Guapinol mine9311121
Turmeric, neem, basmati, Nap Hal patent revocations92511
PCB pollution and the Monsanto Anniston settlement923112
Raja Ampat nickel licences revoked92322
Jamaica catastrophe bonds and the Hurricane Melissa payout921123
Verra registry fee structure, auditor ties and the Follow the Money response93123
Carbon credit rating agencies and Space Intelligence rebuttal (Sylvera, BeZero)93213
Standing Rock / Dakota Access: arrests, TigerSwan and the Greenpeace damages award94131
FAO Plant Treaty multilateral system and benefit-sharing fund91422
Spiber collapse and restructuring922311
Whale oil, kerosene and the 1986 whaling moratorium9252
Brazil's general environmental licensing law: Congress overrides the vetoes92511
WWF-supported ecoguards in Cameroon and CAR (Lobéké, Dzanga-Sangha)923121
DR Congo oil blocks auction after forest deal95211
North Atlantic right whale deaths and US vessel-speed rule withdrawal9171
Palau National Marine Sanctuary93411
EU Deforestation Regulation delays and trade pressure93321
Sandoz Schweizerhalle fire and Rhine recovery95121
Oregon bottle bill (1971)92511
Shell nature-based solutions and carbon-neutral driving ads96111
England Biodiversity Net Gain market and Natural England statutory credits922131
Turkish sugar law, starch-based sugar quota and 2018 sugar factory privatisation92133
UK packaging recycling notes (PRN) system and export fraud9531
Boké bauxite mining and the CBG expansion93141
Alberta orphan wells, closure liabilities and the Redwater ruling94131
Istanbul's municipality and water utility co-own spring-water bottler Hamidiye9621
China's natural forest logging ban and the shift of timber imports9261
Italy's lower house passes ban on cultivated meat, 159 to 539171
Pillay panel finds no proof WWF directed ranger abuses it supported92151
Corporate suits against Greenpeace (TotalEnergies, Shell, Resolute)93213
Mount Polley tailings dam failure91611
Mineral Commodities v Reddell (Xolobeni/Tormin SLAPP)932121
Cordillera Azul National Park carbon project8512
Lac-Mégantic rail disaster (Quebec)81133
TVA Kingston coal ash spill insurance82411
Plastic waste imports into Türkiye (Adana)8341
African Parks Odzala-Kokoua abuses (Republic of Congo)85111
Plastic credits and Philippines PCX8512
UN plastics treaty negotiations (INC-5, Geneva, Nairobi, Bangkok)821131
Messok Dja ecoguard abuses (Republic of Congo)83212
Mareña Renovables wind farm (Mexico)823111
Coca-Cola World Without Waste targets reset813121
Duke Energy coal ash insurance dispute813112
Bikini Atoll resettlement trust fund8341
Fondomonte groundwater pumping in Arizona814111
Gulf War compensation (UNCC) and Kuwait oil-damage remediation8161
Aydın geothermal plants and fig orchards (Sarı Zeybek, Çamköy, Germencik)8422
Netherlands Q fever outbreak and goat sector growth82411
Peabody, Patriot Coal and coal self-bonding84112
Bou Craa phosphate mine and Morocco green hydrogen in Western Sahara831121
DuPont CFC phase-out and the ozone treaty84211
Philippines activists Castro and Tamano disappearance812122
WWF Nepal Chitwan ranger death (Shikharam Chaudhary)83212
Uzbek cotton boycott ends forced labour82213
Cabo Pulmo National Park (Mexico) community no-take success84112
Vietnam's forest recovery and logging displaced abroad8341
Tasman Spirit oil spill (Pakistan)81331
EU banned-pesticide exports832111
Rena grounding (New Zealand)8161
Indonesia waste-to-energy (PSEL) tariff and Danantara83311
EU mirror measure on antimicrobials and Brazil beef exclusion81511
Québec caribou emergency order and the 17 percent protection target82312
TASSC, Tozzi and Milloy: a tobacco-funded 'sound science' campaign83311
Verra suspension of Chinese rice project verifiers812122
Norway Longship and Northern Lights CCS; Sleipner8251
Cambodia REDD+ indigenous consultation failure8211121
Antarctic krill fishing near penguin colonies82411
Edelman: API contract, Energy Citizens and the COP30 contract82411
Lapindo mud flow (Sidoarjo, Indonesia)8413
Bezos Earth Fund: first grants and SBTi funding811132
NYSE natural asset company proposal withdrawn84112
Ethylene oxide in Indian sesame (EU recalls)8341
Manila Bay rehabilitation resettlement and Pasig riverwalk813121
Mangrove restoration failures (Sri Lanka, Philippines, Indonesia, Sundarbans)82312
Mkuju River uranium mine and the Selous boundary change82312
Great Bear Rainforest agreement (Canada)8422
Indonesia seizure of illegal plantations and transfer to Agrinas Palma81511
Lagos Visionscape waste contract (Nigeria) and Zoomlion/Jospong (Ghana)8341
Sinogene pet and police dog cloning (China)8341
Bolt Threads Microsilk and SPAC listing83311
Mexico avocado: US inspection suspensions and Michoacán deforestation8332
Lessepsian invasions: pufferfish in Turkey and bounty payments83221
Starbase launch site, Boca Chica, Texas: environmental review, penalties and Starship debris8125
Rio Tinto's QMM ilmenite mine: net positive impact pledge and biodiversity offset (Madagascar)84211
Simandou iron ore project, Guinea8341
Love Canal: appeals court upholds insurer's pollution exclusion in plumber case831112
Pará forest carbon credit schemes face suspension and lawsuits82114
Brazilian court fines Sigma Lithium over blast damage in Jequitinhonha valley8413
Catamarca court orders cumulative impact study for lithium sites8413
US Northwest federal logging limits and the shift of timber cutting81511
Keep America Beautiful, founded by can and bottle makers, opposed bottle deposit laws8161
WWF president Prince Bernhard resigned in 1976 after a Lockheed commission surfaced81511
3M booked US$10.3bn charge for US public water PFAS settlement83311
RWE drops 1.4 billion euro claim over Dutch coal ban; Hemweg-8 closure announced813112
Turkish court annulls Loç Valley hydropower approval; 117 villagers on trial83113
Supreme Court dismisses Centre's bid for more Bhopal compensation from Union Carbide84211
Federal prosecutors say Belo Monte dam's Xingu flow schedule collapsed in 20258161
US Supreme Court blocks state cancer-warning suits against pesticide makers82411
FAO data show Philippine old-growth forest was 3.3% of land by 19988161
Malaysia banned sea-sand exports to Singapore in 2018, reported only in 20198161
Monsanto/Bayer PCB and Roundup insurance suit v AIG82312
Endorois and Lake Bogoria enzyme extraction (Kenya)813121
Brazil: Operation Greenwashing84121
Galápagos debt-for-nature swap7232
Yangtze ten-year fishing ban761
Google data centre, Cerrillos (Chile)7412
Plant-for-the-Planet: 13.6 billion trees74111
Shell Rocky Mountain Arsenal insurance case71132
Alliance to End Plastic Waste and Renew Oceans (Ganges)7214
Gulf of Mexico dead zone (Mississippi nutrient runoff)72131
Alberta orphan wells and mine liabilities7412
Gigablue and Planetary Technologies ocean carbon credits7211111
Livelihoods Fund mangrove project (Senegal)711212
Gulfstream oil spill (Tobago)7412
Satartia CO2 pipeline rupture (Mississippi)721121
Amoco Cadiz oil spill (France)7412
India FCRA licence cancellations of environmental NGOs7151
Jadar lithium project731111
Belo Monte hydrograph and Volta Grande flow reduction752
Renova Foundation (Mariana dam, Brazil)72122
Asbestos 524(g) bankruptcy trusts and J&J talc two-step72311
Nauru and Banaba phosphate mining compensation7151
Texas anti-ESG law SB 13 and the states' suit against BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street72131
Rockhopper v. Italy (Ombrina Mare): the ICSID award and who financed it74111
PFAS water utility settlements by 3M, DuPont, Chemours and Corteva71411
Great Nicobar project compensatory afforestation (India)711131
Kenya logging ban lifted and eucalyptus felling71213
Tyson and Sanderson Farms 'no antibiotics' label cases721121
Lagos waterfront evictions (Otodo-Gbame, Badia East) and Eko Atlantic711122
Hwang Woo-suk and the Sooam cloning business71411
Seneca Village and Central Park (USA)74111
Vida Manglar mangrove project7331
Keep America Beautiful founding and Crying Indian ad (US)7511
Costa Rica payments for ecosystem services and forest recovery7511
India PMFBY crop insurance73112
Ogijo battery recycling lead poisoning (Nigeria)73121
Onagawa and Fukushima Daiichi site elevation decisions7214
SBTi funding, Scope 3 EAC announcement and CEO exit71213
Great Barrier Reef 'in danger' listing delayed7331
California forest carbon projects burned (Verra buffer pool)73112
Cosmos 1408 anti-satellite test (Russia)7511
Malaysia imported plastic waste crisis (Jenjarom)7331
Yasuní ITT oil wells closure (Ecuador)72212
Johor and Batam data centres for Singapore731111
Sveaskog logging of old forest in Luokta-Mávas Sámi reindeer land (Sweden)73112
Blue Carbon LLC forest carbon deals (UAE, Africa)731111
Indonesian nickel oversupply: BHP Nickel West suspension and the LME green contract71222
ISS battery pallet debris hits a Florida home73112
Indorama Agro cotton project (Uzbekistan)73121
Taiji dolphin drive hunt74111
Venezuela 2026 twin earthquakes insurance gap712121
Nairobi River regeneration and riparian demolitions7223
Mozambique LNG environmental assessment (ERM)721211
Pribilof fur seal harvest and Alaska Commercial Company7241
Peruvian guano trade and the Gibbs family71411
Ghazipur landfill and India legacy-waste claims72311
ACCCE clean coal advertising and forged letters (US)761
EU taxonomy hydropower exemption and California large hydro exclusion73112
Offshore wind wake effect disputes (Ørsted, UK and Germany)72311
Halmahera nickel complex (IWIP, Weda Bay) and the Hongana Manyawa72113
FACE Foundation Mount Elgon carbon forest (Uganda)71411
Black-footed ferret cloning (Antonia) and wild plague7241
Fukushima treated water discharge and Chinese seafood ban71321
Hidroituango dam and the Ríos Vivos defenders (Colombia)72311
Trump's EPA keeps Biden-era veto on Alaska's Pebble mine7151
El Salvador lifts its 2017 ban on metal mining7151
DRC replaces cobalt export ban with 96,600-tonne annual quota7511
India exempts critical mineral mines from public consultation7511
Ten Mother Nature activists sentenced over documenting sand dredging73112
Prestige oil spill compensation cap in Spain and 1992 Fund limits73211
Dominica passes law for sperm whale reserve; carbon claim has no credit scheme713111
Shell's 2022 stake in Brazilian REDD+ developer Carbonext7241
Indian indigo area and exports fell sharply, 1895 to 1956761
Wildfires have consumed almost 40% of California's forest offset buffer pool7511
Coca-Cola's partner The Ocean Cleanup reports 25 million kg collected in 202574111
Australian government rejects claim that 25 million carbon credits are worthless7241
Gorgon LNG carbon storage fell short; gap closed with credits7241
Australia penalises Mercer Super and Vanguard over sustainable and ethical fund claims73112
Clorox penalised AUD 8.25 million over GLAD 'ocean plastic' bag claims in Australia71411
California approves SB 54 packaging rules making producers pay USD 5 billion in 10 years7151
North Dakota judge cancels Summit Carbon Solutions storage permit7241
Indonesia's palm garden amnesty collected 822 billion rupiah by May 20247151
Glyphosate safety review retracted over undisclosed Monsanto ghostwriting7331
Çeşme wind farm olive grove partly registered to Treasury despite 2014 halt7412
Oyu Tolgoi river diversion case in Mongolia listed with CAO7331
Codelco and SQM launch Atacama lithium venture extending output to 20607421
Chad ends African Parks' management of Zakouma and Ennedi parks7511
Sinar Mas/APP fires burned 293,065 hectares; replanting was the recorded sanction761
Mexico reported 7.2 million pesos for vaquita protection diverted7151
Andalusia approves last permit to reopen Aznalcóllar mine near Doñana7232
Indian government paid Rs 126 crore to incinerate Union Carbide Bhopal waste7241
Foz do Amazonas drilling licence71312
Belize blue bond62121
Norilsk diesel spill642
Salem tanker651
Sembrando Vida (Sowing Life)63111
Kenya's 15 billion trees target62121
Erika oil spill6411
Refugio / Plains Line 901 oil spill (California)6411
Biomas restoration initiative62121
Mikoko Pamoja mangrove project6411
Atlanta BeltLine61122
US Superfund tax and funding shortfall62211
Duke Energy coal ash cleanup cost recovery (North Carolina)6213
Rigel scuttling (Calabria)621111
Enbridge Line 6B oil spill, Marshall, Michigan612111
Tamil Nadu sand quarries measured by drone63111
xAI Colossus gas turbines (Memphis, Southaven)6411
Montrose DDT insurance case611121
US bird flu indemnity and egg prices6222
Jakarta water privatisation61131
Love Canal (New York)62112
Aznalcóllar mine spill (Spain)6312
Sime Darby Plantation withhold release order61311
Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, Acre6141
Milas–Yatağan olive groves opened to mining (Law 7554, temporary article 45)6312
EDF spying on Greenpeace (France)6411
Dicamba drift (Bader Farms) and EPA re-registration62112
Synagro biosolids and PFAS in Texas61311
India EPR fake certificates61212
Volkswagen, Audi and Daimler diesel fines (Germany)61311
Georgia-Pacific, Bestwall and the Texas two-step61311
Golfrid Siregar death and Batang Toru hydro611121
MSC certification of Australian orange roughy trawl fishery6312
Amazon's water-positive pledge and a leaked 2022 memo63111
Hill & Knowlton, the Frank Statement and the TIRC612111
Lagunes and Díaz disappearance near Ternium Las Encinas mine (Mexico)62211
UK anaerobic digestion gate fees and the Hanford-Stoke dispute6321
AGRA (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa)61113
Papua food and energy estate (Indonesia)6312
Bahamas debt-for-nature swap62211
Homero Gómez González death (Monarch reserve, Mexico)62121
Long March 5B uncontrolled reentries6411
China small hydropower closures, Yangtze Economic Belt651
Marange diamonds and the Kimberley Process (Zimbabwe)6222
Nepal forest carbon deals (World Bank ER-MR, LEAF)611121
Indonesia's H5N1 sample withholding and the WHO PIP Framework63111
Florida Citizens depopulation and insurer affiliate profits6312
Microsoft forestry carbon deals and the Apple Restore Fund61131
ATryn: a drug made in goat milk6231
Rooibos benefit-sharing agreement (South Africa)63111
Querétaro data-centre water use (Mexico)63111
Akbelen forest felling for YK Enerji coal mine (Türkiye)6312
High Line property value effect (New York)6132
Octopus farm project (Nueva Pescanova, Canary Islands)6231
Holcim Geocycle and brand-cement plastic co-processing61113
US National Flood Insurance Program debt and FEMA reinsurance6213
HFC-23 destruction credits under the CDM (China, India)6231
Net Zero Banking Alliance exits and closure63111
Sellafield decommissioning and Hanford cleanup budgets611211
FDA 2008 clone food decision6231
US withdrawal from 66 international bodies and Paris/UNFCCC62211
US adds Nevada's Thacker Pass lithium mine to fast-track permitting63111
Insurers sue Asarco in New Jersey over cover for environmental liabilities6411
Kiribati opens Phoenix Islands protected area to fishing; trust dissolved6231
Kenya evicts more than 700 people from Mau Forest where Ogiek won at court61311
62% of UK paraquat exports since 2015 went to poorer countries, analysis finds6411
Arbitration tribunal finds UK breached UN sea law over Chagos reserve651
Four global fashion brands launch second-hand clothing recovery coalition in Ghana6141
Colombia's Operation Artemisa: 113 arrests and 13 convictions6411
China's Ganzhou rare earth clean-up estimated at 38 billion yuan63111
Indonesia reopened sea sand exports in 2023; Supreme Court annulled them in 2025612111
Louisiana regulators fast-track second batch of gas plants for Meta data center6321
Greenpeace says AI chip production emissions rose to 453,600 tonnes by 20246231
4,700 families moved for Cairo's Fustat Gardens; Heliopolis lost 390,000 m² of green6411
Medellín's 30 green corridors won a 2019 Ashden award; 2 °C claim unverified6411
Syngenta settles thousands of paraquat lawsuits and keeps selling diquat62211
Evaluations find AGRA missed its headline goal; Yara buys Italian organic fertiliser firm63111
Kerala endosulfan compensation delayed as producer's Shroff family sells stake62211
Philippine Supreme Court fined Manila's water firms over untreated sewage63111
Indigenous land registration cut Amazon deforestation; recent Brazilian rulings reverse course6141
ELAW and Ecolex list M.C. Mehta v. Kamal Nath, an Indian environmental case61311
BP acquires majority stake in Finite Carbon, a US forest carbon developer6141
Shell buys Australian carbon-farming firm Select Carbon in August 202061311
Sören Jensen identified PCBs in 1966 while testing for DDT651
Compensation for Kerala endosulfan victims reported delayed651
adidas unveiled a shoe prototype made from AMSilk spider-silk fibre6141
Marfrig co-founded Biomas, a Brazilian forest-restoration company6141
Hess agreed to buy at least US$750 million of Guyana forest credits6321
Chrysotile asbestos blocked from Rotterdam Convention listing by vetoes since 20066231
Beijing demolished 59.85 million m² of unauthorised buildings and planned greening6411
JBS net-zero pledge to be a 'target', not a 'commitment'6411
WTO panel found Indonesia's raw nickel export ban breached rules6312
Peru counts 529,400 guano seabirds as it approves a seven-year-high anchovy quota6141
20,000 tonnes of arsenic-bearing sludge sent to Arica were left exposed6321
US and DRC sign minerals partnership giving US firms first offer on mining sites6231
Pilbara Minerals' profit fell sharply as lithium prices slumped; Li-Cycle went bankrupt651
Philippines raised African swine fever pig indemnification in 2021, ABS-CBN reported651
Andhra Pradesh granted Google-linked data centre incentives in October 2025651
Sydney Water forecasts data centres could draw a quarter of usable water by 20356222
Council of State lets 60 informal neighbourhoods stay in Bogotá reserve buffer63111
Kenyan court rules two carbon conservancies were unconstitutionally established6141
Morocco subsidised drip irrigation as aquifers fell, and desalination followed6411
Murray-Darling irrigation efficiency subsidies, Australia, 2008 to 20186411
SIU probes Rooiwal plant tender paid before work was finished6411
3M agrees to pay 571 million euros for Zwijndrecht PFOS clean-up61212
BP's Gulf spill used Corexit; Nalco board had ex-BP and Exxon executives6411
British Columbia's 13.2 million hectare old-growth count is challenged651
Western Sahara's Aftissat wind complex reaches 550 MW6231
RWE sought €1.4bn from the Netherlands over its coal phase-out621111
US Supreme Court hears Boulder County's climate suit against Suncor and Exxon6231
Kenyan forest guards shoot dead Sengwer herder Robert Kirotich during evictions611121
Climeworks' Iceland plants captured less CO2 than their stated capacity63111
US SEC switches oil reserve pricing to a 12-month average in 20086231
Dutch royal couple bought holiday land in Mozambique and Argentina6141
Eni bought Zambian forest credits as a community received about EUR 50,0006321
Dubai camel cloning centre reported 28 pregnancies in 20216411
China's non-wood pulp output fell as Columbia Pulp's straw mill stopped6141
EPA repeals 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding on legal grounds651
Solar plant planned for Karaburun wind farm involves about 30,000 olive trees651
GenX chemical found in Cape Fear River, a DuPont and Chemours replacement for PFOA6321
Repsol La Pampilla spill: regulator fines and a criminal probe follow6411
Lead shipped by Trafigura from Nigerian smelters linked to Ogijo poisonings6411
ICIJ reports more than 340 companies certified in deforestation investigation63111
Study finds Exxon's internal papers accepted warming; its advertorials cast doubt642
Indigenous people not informed of industrial development for about nine months6411
Giant Mine cleanup cost in Yellowknife rose to 4.38 billion Canadian dollars6411
Five Texas farm families sue Synagro over sewage-sludge fertilizer61311
Federal court rules New York climate superfund law preempted62211
Coal bankruptcies bring Peabody's self-bonds into view6231
Developers dispute wake losses from RWE's Dogger Bank South wind farm6321
Chepang man dies in army custody after Chitwan park detention; homes reportedly burned61212
Record tree-planting claims in Ethiopia, India and Türkiye lack independent checks6132
US fuel mandate required corn ethanol; reported land and carbon effects unverified642
Hunter who shot lion Cecil in Zimbabwe was never charged6141
Texas Petra Nova carbon capture plant closed in 2020, reopened in 20236231
SoCalGas paid the bills of a group fighting building electrification in California651
ExxonMobil sues California attorney general and four green groups for defamation621111
Fijian village Vunidogoloa relocates inland under climate relocation plan6321
Earthsight: eastern Paraguay forest loss fell as Chaco clearing rose651
Bison were counted at about 1,091 in 1889, before an 1894 law651
Vicuna fell to about 5,000 by 1960 and reached about 200,000 in Peru651
Namibia landed thousands of tonnes of pilchard as bycatch under moratorium6141
European development banks financed Feronia palm plantations in Congo6321
Canada narrowed federal environmental reviews in 2012 and again in 20256231
India's Supreme Court recalls environmental ruling at developers' request61311
Chinese courts convict 49 over Tianjin port warehouse explosion6411
Jiangsu court did not make chemical firms pay for Changzhou land cleanup61311
Mylo mycelium leather halted in July 2023 for lack of financing6411
Campaigners claim Suzano eucalyptus dried over 130 streams in Brazil6141
Miteni PFAS contamination633
Scotland's natural-capital land rush541
CAMPFIRE and elephant trophy hunting5311
Brillante Virtuoso tanker541
Google data centre, Canelones (Uruguay)5311
Ventron/Morton mercury, Berry's Creek52111
Removal of the Endangered Species Act 'harm' definition5212
Maine PFAS sludge farms541
Diamond Shamrock Lister Avenue dioxin, Passaic River5221
Jiyeh power plant oil spill (Lebanon, 2006)51211
Roger Hallam sentence and UK Public Order Act protests51211
MV Rak Carrier coal and oil spill (Mumbai)5122
Karachaganak oil arbitration and the sulphur-fine reports (Kazakhstan)51211
Nature Conservancy gas drilling on Texas City Prairie Preserve5221
Portland Harbor Superfund cleanup plan (Willamette River, Oregon)514
Chico Mendes murder (Brazil)5212
Samir Flores murder and the Huexca power plant511111
TotalEnergies v Greenpeace France511111
Topacio Reynoso killing and the Escobal silver mine52111
Bears Ears national monument shrinkage (USA)5131
New York v PepsiCo and LA County v PepsiCo/Coca-Cola51112
Bien Hoa dioxin cleanup and Agent Orange suit (Tran To Nga)51211
Alter do Chão and Dia do Fogo fire allegations51121
Niger Delta oil spills and sabotage attribution (Shell, Eni)51211
US tax deductibility of environmental settlements (IRC 162(f))5212
Turkish holdings' coal expansion alongside renewables (Cenal, Akbelen, İçdaş)51112
Cane toad introduction (Australia)52111
Tropical Forest Forever Facility51112
Sabarmati Riverfront Development (Ahmedabad)523
Fukushima nuclear damage compensation financing (Japan)52111
China National Sword plastic import ban and container returns51112
Chennai water-body restoration evictions and Perumbakkam resettlement5311
Tesco fictional farm brands (UK)52111
Sri Lanka fertiliser ban5212
Chut Wutty killing (Cambodia)51112
Rosy wolfsnail introduction, Moorea (French Polynesia)5131
North Aral Sea restoration via Kokaral dam (Kazakhstan)5311
Patancheru pharmaceutical effluent and Hyderabad drug resistance5311
Zoetis growth-promoter sales in India and portfolio sale to Phibro52111
Quest CCS (Shell, Alberta)5131
Sierra Club donations from Chesapeake Energy52111
Chikweti forestry plantations (Mozambique)511111
Spain: environmental liability financial guarantee (EU Directive Art. 14)5311
US coal ash ponds, groundwater contamination and EPA delay5212
Myanmar Kachin heavy rare earth mining and Kok River arsenic51211
Mexico IBRD catastrophe bonds (Otis, Polo) and FONDEN abolition52111
Harrison campaign against Silent Spring and Burson-Marsteller crisis PR5131
Dutch PFAS soil limit, 20195221
Nonylphenol ethoxylates: Swiss ban and EU restriction5131
Lake Biwa phosphate-detergent ban5221
EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism burden on Turkish exporters511111
Panama moves 1,351 people off Gardi Sugdub island to the mainland51211
Myanmar rare earth mining districts lost 32,720 hectares of tree cover5311
Entre Ríos, which bans fracking, mines silica sand for Vaca Muerta wells5122
Ho Chi Minh City canal restoration demolished about 7,000 households541
Leaked DOE list marks first tranches for two direct air capture hubs 'terminate'5311
Nile perch released in Lake Victoria in 1954 linked to loss of 200+ cichlids5131
Courts weigh insurance coverage for asbestos and PFAS liabilities in US cases5311
Greenpeace ends all engagement with APP and Sinar Mas over deforestation links5131
Socfin and Socapalm defamation suits against French media and NGOs fail52111
Akbelen forest defender sentenced after 2023 felling for coal mine541
New Mexico prescribed burn in 2022 became the state's largest fire5311
Historic Nile floating houses removed in Cairo; tree felling in 2026 sparks outcry5311
Egg producer penalised by Australian regulator for misleading free-range claims5311
BP and Eni do not declare gas flared at Iraq's Rumaila field, citing non-operator status541
Sulawesi 'green nickel' runs on coal power; respiratory infections rose5311
EU narrows supply-chain law and delays deforestation rule twice5131
Adviser said UN environment award helped sway UNESCO on Rampal coal plant5221
Indonesia returns 883 of 2,194 flagged waste containers5131
Paris court finds Volvic recycling claims misleading; Coca-Cola, Nestlé change labels52111
Marshall Islands nuclear tribunal awards over USD 2bn; payments are a small fraction5131
Okinawa pays for US base PFAS treatment as Henoko cost rises to 930 billion yen5311
Army-built Tren Maya caused deforestation of 6,659 hectares, mostly without permits5131
US PACT Act: $281.5bn for veterans exposed to burn pits, none for Iraqi civilians5311
Iran calls attack on Tehran fuel depots 'ecocide'5131
Peru says it blocked 180 biopiracy cases, but records no benefit payments5311
US sales of medically important antibiotics for food animals rose 16% in 20245311
Morocco's catastrophe fund expected reinsurance after the 2023 El Haouz quake52111
France's clay-shrinkage drought claims: one in four victims compensated541
Stargate Abilene installed gas turbines and diesel generators under a rule-based permit5131
Rents near Barcelona's Consell de Cent green axis rose 12.6–14% more than elsewhere541
Kigali cleared Bannyahe as a 'high-risk wetland' for high-income investment5311
Post-disaster coastal buffer zones in Sri Lanka and the Philippines exempted hotels52111
France's Constitutional Council annuls pesticide clause of Duplomb farm law5311
Kenyan court removes seed-sharing offence in 2025; destruction costs fall on farmers5311
Illegal gold mining raised turbidity at a Ghana Water plant, cutting output 30%5113
Chinese appeal court did not make chemical firms pay remediation at Changzhou52111
Australian government settled PFAS claims at three defence bases and sued 3M52111
Indonesia's Supreme Court orders Wilmar to pay Rp 11.88 trillion5311
Paris court finds TotalEnergies' 2050 carbon-neutral claim misleading5311
Basel plastic waste rules took effect in 2021; UK waste exports to Türkiye rose again in 20235311
US 2025 tax law gave oil recovery the same carbon credit as permanent storage5131
Alberta and Ottawa tie new oil pipeline to Pathways carbon capture plan5122
ExxonMobil completes USD 4.9 billion purchase of Denbury CO2 pipelines5131
After Sackett ruling, NRDC says at least 60% of individual wetlands are unprotected52111
Blackjewel bankruptcy and mine reclamation bonds in Kentucky, Virginia and Wyoming5311
Woodside's Northern Endeavour transfer to NOGA and state-funded decommissioning541
Exide's Vernon lead smelter abandoned in bankruptcy, leaving California to pay for cleanup5311
Bloomberg, Steyer and Bezos money shapes coal and nature campaigns5131
USAID funding for Kenya's Northern Rangelands Trust ended in 20255131
Greens report: parts of German glyphosate assessment copied Monsanto file5221
Bayer's carbon program pays farmers per practice, not per tonne5131
WTO panel backs EU on palm biofuel rules in Malaysia case5311
Consultant ERM wrote the Keystone XL environmental impact statement51211
TotalEnergies’ Tilenga oil fields in Uganda: biodiversity claims and insurance5221
Italian courts sentence executives over Ilva steelworks and Eternit asbestos541
Kenyan water-tower forest evictions followed a 2018 killing by forest guards5131
Starship debris from two 2025 test flights lands in Turks and Caicos541
Vattenfall's nuclear exit claim against Germany ends in 2021 settlement51121
Afghanistan's Qosh Tepa canal to divert 6 to 13 km³ of Amu Darya water a year5311
EU court finds Spain ignored illegal water abstraction in Doñana5311
Annual sewage entering Lebanon's Litani equals its natural inflow541
Court annuls environmental approval for Loç Valley hydropower plant a second time52111
Turkey allocates hydropower water rights to the highest bidder541
Factories draw about 3.9 million cubic metres a year from Sapanca Lake5311
Study finds offset schemes overstate climate impacts; Kenyan court orders shutdown5311
Madras High Court orders Prosopis uprooted in Tamil Nadu5212
Chisso executives sentenced over Minamata disease in 19795311
Invasive seaweed escaped from Monaco museum aquarium and reached Turkey in 2006541
Veterinary drug linked to India's vulture collapse and extra human deaths541
Land sales and logging on Sami reindeer pasture in Sweden, NGO reports52111
Intermediaries take over Morocco's argan oil trade as drought cuts output541
WWF-funded ranger units accused of torture and killings in Asia and Africa51211
Argentina's Forest Law fund got 4.8% of its legal floor in 20215221
Indonesia's Merauke food estate released 486,939 hectares of forest5131
Alaska's Tongass forest again proposed for exemption from roadless rule5311
7.2 million pesos meant for vaquita protection diverted, Excélsior reported5131
EIA report examines Dall's porpoise hunt in Iwate, Japan5221
California FAIR Plan policies rise 152% as Florida Citizens shrinks5221
Accra's Agbogbloshie scrap market demolished in July 20215221
Morocco says it cut cadmium in phosphate fertilisers; EU cannot verify the claim5131
Tanzania fines Acacia Mining USD 2.4 million over alleged North Mara pollution5311
Nine of ten e-waste storage sites in Thailand found unlicensed in 20245221
US regulator said Keurig did not disclose recycler doubts about pod recycling51211
Coca-Cola and Unilever revise plastic packaging targets541
Dioxin found in eggs near Lucknow medical waste incinerator541
German waters hold 1.6 million tonnes of munitions; Baltic to be disposal pilot5311
Oak Flat, an Apache sacred site, transferred to Resolution Copper in Arizona5311
Moroccan miner Managem says cobalt mine water is safe amid arsenic claims5221
Syrah declares force majeure at Mozambique graphite mine after unrest5311
US takes about 15% stake in MP Materials and sets $110/kg rare earth price floor5221
Jamaica's World Bank catastrophe bond did not pay after Hurricane Beryl5131
Court voids Digital Gateway rezoning in Prince William County, Virginia5311
New York City began exporting waste out of state after Fresh Kills closed in 2001541
World Bank-backed Colombo flood work turned Beddagana wetland into a park5311
Corteva and Deere pay to settle FTC cases over loyalty and repair locks5311
Dawn reports Karachi tanker trade worth at least 62m rupees a day5311
Veolia settles Flint water claims for 53 million dollars, admitting no fault5311
Pertamina NRE was sole seller on IDXCarbon's opening day in 2023541
Derna dams collapse in 2023 after maintenance funds were not spent on upkeep5311
Italy fined Eni 5 million euros over ads calling Diesel+ green511111
Hess agreed to buy at least $750m of Guyana forest credits5131
Isthmus of Tehuantepec wind farms, including Mareña, faced local opposition5221
Bikini reef partly recovered after US nuclear tests; islanders still displaced5311
TNC chief scientist urged conservation groups to partner with companies5131
Deutsche Bank's DWS paid penalties in US and Germany over ESG claims5131
Consumer Goods Forum misses 2020 zero net deforestation pledge5131
UK ad regulator bans HSBC '2 million trees' advert after 45 complaints5221
Most of Coldplay's offset mango saplings in India dried up within four years5311
EU bans offset-based neutrality claims from 27 September 20265212
EU court rejects Austria's challenge to green label for gas and nuclear5221
Japan plans cross-border CO2 storage in Malaysia by 2030541
Stardust Solutions raises $60 million for solar geoengineering5311
Harvard halts planned SCoPEx geoengineering balloon test in Sweden541
ADM Decatur carbon storage site leaks about 8,000 tons, EPA finds5311
Kenya's two official figures: 8.83% forest cover and 12.13% tree cover51211
Shell reserves overstatement case: investors settle for $352.6 million5131
California law adds $18 billion to wildfire fund, half from customers541
South Africa's captive lion industry sells cubs, hunts and bones51121
TIAA and Harvard farmland buys in Brazil breached foreign-purchase limits, Incra said51211
Dutch pension fund ABP added forest land in 2007 and held Brazilian meat shares5221
Brazil Senate passes amendment limiting Indigenous land claims to 1988 occupants5131
WWF-UK corporate income falls to GBP 10.6m as charity consults on 90 job cuts5311
El Salvador enacts foreign agents law taxing foreign funding at 30%5131
Republic Services subsidiaries lobbied on Superfund and federal cleanup funds51211
Kheiron Biotech expects to produce about 400 polo horse clones in 20255221
South Korea's Rural Development Administration cloned six working dogs in 20135311
Beyond Meat shares fall below $1 as company refinances debt5221
US budget law cuts fossil fuel royalties and sets 4 million coal acres for leasing5311
US Supreme Court ruled that replanting patented seed infringes the patent5311
Arla denies Gates link to Bovaer cattle feed additive pilot in UK5311
Australia and Tuvalu sign Falepili Union with annual ballot for migration visas5131
Turkey's plastic bag fee and advertising penalties on green claims5221
Alleged flow-meter manipulation at a Turkish hydropower plant on the Alakır river5311
Ergene pollution case dropped on time limit as wastewater goes to Marmara5311
Clorox fined A$8.25m over 'ocean plastic' claim on garbage bags541
Hanford contractors settle false-claims suits as cleanup estimates rise5311
Liberian-flagged vessel Sea Empress spills oil at Milford Haven, Wales, in 1996541
Uzbek cotton clusters took farmers' land and set quotas, rights group reports5311
Socfin and Socapalm lose French defamation suit against media and NGOs541
Tillamook faces suit over farm imagery as Fairlife settles for $21m541
Non-peer-reviewed study links China's 1958 sparrow campaign to famine deaths5311
Choropampa mercury spill in Peru, listed in a CAO case file541
Botswana court finds San relocation from Central Kalahari unlawful541
Arctic lease sale attracts bids from only two companies5311
Queensland loosened vegetation clearing rules, then reintroduced them in 2018541
India approved clearing over 8,500 hectares of forest despite a Supreme Court order5311
Decision approves Waihi North mine under New Zealand conservation land541
Indonesia reopens sea-sand exports on a 17.66 billion m3 potential estimate51112
Jakarta counted 113 forced evictions in 2015, most without resettlement housing52111
Buenos Aires amends zero-waste law in 2018, with deadlines to 20305131
Plastic found in paper-waste bales imported into East Java5221
Hintze Ribeiro bridge collapse linked to river sand dredging5131
Pakistan ordered to pay Karkey about $800 million over seized powerships5131
IFFCO sells nano urea under a fertiliser subsidy; a Punjab trial reported lower yields5311
The four biggest agrochemical firms each bought a biologicals company, 2012 to 2026541
Vietnam named a Taiwan company as the source of 2016 pollution months later52111
Alaska flatfish trawl fishery recertified by MSC for third time5311
State auditors reported 61% survival for Philippine tree planting, 2015-201952111
Nature Conservancy began $10 million partnership with Dow Chemical in 20115221
Bolivian carbon scheme claimed 55 million tonnes; review found at most 5.8 million5311
Mongooses brought to Hawaii to eat rats now prey on endangered birds and turtle eggs5221
American Chemistry Council proposed Kenya as Africa's plastics hub in 20205221
The Hague's fossil fuel advertising ban took effect in 2025 after court upheld it52111
Boundary Dam 3 carbon capture unit captured 7,095,042 tonnes by September 20255131
Verra suspends three REDD+ schemes in Brazil's Portel over public land overlap5311
Gabriel Resources ordered to pay Romania about $10m costs over Roşia Montană5131
Pakistan cancels five independent power contracts amid capacity-payment costs5311
Study estimates Texas anti-ESG bank rules added to municipal borrowing costs511111
Dutch prosecutors declined to charge over Chemours Dordrecht birth-defect complaints5221
Indonesia's forest moratorium: ministry cited 38% less clearing, Greenpeace disputed it5221
Botswana's 2014 hunting ban also barred San hunters in the Central Kalahari51211
Cheynes Beach whaling station near Albany closes in 19785221
Ireland imports Latvian peat while private firms keep exporting5221
Investor claim over Colombia's Santurbán mining ban yields no compensation5131
Philippines suspends Manila Bay reclamation works; two expected to resume5131
Indonesian report alleges illegal permit levies in Kutai Kartanegara5131
Fukushima decontamination contracts went to Kajima, Taisei, Obayashi and Maeda ventures5131
Rainforest credits investigation4211
Paulo Paulino Guajajara killing (Brazil)41111
Thoothukudi Sterlite copper smelter protest shooting413
Rio Tinto Juukan Gorge destruction4121
W.R. Grace, Libby asbestos and Maryland Casualty4211
Saweto killings41111
Ohio HB6 bribery scandal4112
Jakarta evictions, Ciliwung normalisation and the Giant Sea Wall431
Lead paint public nuisance insurance (Santa Clara)41111
Wolverine World Wide PFAS, Rockford (Michigan)41111
Adolfo Ich killing and the Fénix nickel project41111
Mar Menor legal personhood (Spain)41111
REDcycle soft plastics collapse (Australia)4211
Shell Nigeria pipeline spill ruling (Hague Court of Appeal, 2021)41111
Lafarge La Malle sabotage and Soulèvements de la Terre dissolution4121
Just Stop Oil / M25 conspiracy sentences (UK)431
NEOM evictions and death sentences41111
Los Cedros mining permits annulled (Ecuador)4211
Kashagan sulphur environmental fine (Kazakhstan)4121
K+S: Werra salt discharge and Monte Kali41111
South African west coast rock lobster quota and WWF court case431
North Sea platform decommissioning tax relief (UK)4211
ARC drought insurance payout to Malawi4112
MAR Fund Mesoamerican Reef parametric insurance41111
WHO Pandemic Agreement and the PABS annex4211
Kolwezi forced evictions (Cité Gécamines, DRC)4211
Biosphere 2 experiment41111
Falcon 9 upper stage reentry over Poland431
India SATAT compost and compressed biogas shortfalls; Indore bio-CNG plant4211
Gaza reconstruction and the Board of Peace's first contract44
Mexico water concessions concentration41111
Eliasch Amazon land purchase4211
Chicago 606 trail gentrification431
Barbados debt-for-nature swap431
Volgoneft 212/239 spill (Kerch Strait)41111
Brent Spar decommissioning controversy (North Sea)4121
Kenya plastic bag ban enforcement and manufacturers' opposition422
MoroccanOil and argan (Israel/Morocco)41111
Cheonggyecheon stream restoration merchants (Seoul)41111
Deliver-or-pay waste incinerator contract (Pietrasanta, Italy)4211
Japan plastic waste exports to Asia4211
Gunaa Sicarú wind farm contracts cancelled after Zapotec community suit4211
Tompkins Conservation donates land in Chile to state for two new national parks4121
US moves to end 25-year-old Roadless Rule for national forests4211
Addis Ababa's Reppie waste-to-energy plant reported at half capacity4211
CME Group launches futures tied to a California water price index4211
Mosaic settles US hazardous-waste case over phosphogypsum handling4211
DUAL launches insurance for biodiversity net gain units, first at Bunloit estate431
Russia declares WWF and Greenpeace 'undesirable' organisations4211
World Bank $800m Uzbekistan operation; Tanzania project halted4121
Sombath Somphone disappeared at a Vientiane police checkpoint in 20124211
Kyrgyzstan takes control of Kumtor gold mine amid penalty dispute4121
Indonesian court cancels discharge permits of three Citarum textile factories4211
California water board says bottler Arrowhead had no water right for most diversions4211
South Korea audit reverses river restoration decision431
Tortum Waterfall dries up after hydro plant operator cuts its water431
Brazilian court orders Vale and Cemig to repair nearly dry Rio Doce reach431
Stoats and weasels released in New Zealand against rabbits, 1883–1892431
Great Green Wall core area reported at about 4% of its 100 million hectare target431
Over one million unplanted saplings in Uzbekistan reported as planted4211
Japan 'Kumamoto clam' sales reported at about 120 times the annual Kumamoto catch431
Human Rights Watch reports about 930,000 relocated in Tibet for ecological protection4121
Pará state pre-sold 12 million REDD+ credits; federal prosecutors sue to cancel4211
Delhi clears Yamuna floodplain homes for riverfront and biodiversity-park schemes4211
Tajik markhor hunts leave about USD 78,000 per hunt with protected areas4112
Bolivia's decree 3973 allowed forest clearing and controlled burns before 2024 fires4211
Kazakhstan plans saiga antelope cull as population recovers4211
Kyrgyzstan 1998 cyanide accident: residents not informed for five hours4211
EU seal-product ban's Inuit exemption found ineffective4211
Philippine appeals court blocks commercial GM rice and Bt eggplant431
FSC suspends Vietnamese pellet producer over false certification claims4121
Red sandalwood funds made up most of India's benefit-sharing payouts4121
Cargill's Turkish factory kept operating despite court annulments4211
Alteo has discharged red mud from Gardanne into the Calanques since 19664121
Swedish incinerator fly ash dumped on Langøya island in Norway4121
German ministry links Oder fish die-off to salt discharges and toxic algae431
Indian court closes 700 Tiruppur dye units; river solids at 3,000 mg/l4121
US chemical recycling plants run far below capacity, and some have closed4211
Philippines reports 55.98% plastic recovery under EPR, including co-processing431
Ukraine plans private demining tenders as US-Ukraine fund signs first minerals deal431
US Defense Department PFAS costs top USD 9.3 billion at 718 installations4211
Brazil's army-led Verde Brasil spent USD 90.3m; deforestation rose above average4211
Addis Ababa riverside and corridor demolitions led to evictions without compensation431
Study attributes habitat loss in Bahrain to reclamation and sand dredging4121
45Q lobby coalition's founding director was named to head DOE carbon office431
Loss and damage fund has paid about 55% of its $822m pledges4211
GE ran a 'Let Nature Clean Up the Hudson' campaign against EPA dredging4211
Newfoundland pays residents to leave Little Bay Islands, a dwindling fishing village4121
Walton family grants and board ties link Conservation International to Walmart41111
Japan's JBIC financed Vietnam's Vung Ang 2 coal plant from an environment-labelled fund4121
OPEC members' declared oil reserves jumped in the late 1980s4211
Santo Antônio dam sought 51 million tonnes of UN carbon credits4121
ASARCO bankruptcy environmental settlement and Grupo México's return in 20094211
C-Quest Capital cookstove credit case: founder charged over inflated credit counts431
Trade rules curb green industrial policy; WTO rules against Indonesia nickel ban431
Dutch royal couple's Machangulo holiday-village investment, Mozambique4121
New Zealand's 2014 Te Urewera Act, a legal-personhood law for a former park4121
Gates holds about 275,000 acres of US farmland in 17 states4211
Killings alleged at Del Monte's pineapple farm in Thika, Kenya4211
Bayer buys Monsanto for $66bn; four firms hold most seed and pesticide sales4211
World Bank US$600m farm loan coincided with a 90% fall in farm support4211
About 150,000 orangutans lost in Borneo; RSPO palm saved only 21 km² of forest4121
Major agrochemical firms buy biological input makers and sell organic-approved lines431
Bursa’s bottled-water plants draw 4.4m m3 a year; dams hit 0.54% in 20254121
Seychelles 2016 debt-for-nature swap listed among TNC Nature Bonds4211
Chevron pleads no contest to six counts over 2012 Richmond refinery fire431
Colombian regulator fines Prodeco for breaches at Calenturitas coal mine41111
Ghana committee finds Kosmos negligent over 2010 Jubilee field spills431
Los Angeles wildfires cause $41bn insured loss; 75% of survivors underinsured431
Report says a man died after ecoguard beating in Republic of the Congo park431
Stockholm Convention agrees chlorpyrifos phase-out with 22 uses exempted4121
MSC certification of Pacific purse-seine tuna faces repeated disputes431
Rabobank co-financed a Brazilian eucalyptus carbon plantation contested by locals4121
Indra Pelani beaten to death by guards of an APP supplier in Jambi4112
Gloria Capitan, who opposed a coal storage site, shot dead in Bataan4211
Nine die in Çöpler gold mine heap collapse; mine gets temporary operating certificate4211
Desert greening firm with UNEP award penalized for fake revenue and delisted431
Monsanto faces US bribery charge over Indonesian environmental review41111
Corteva settles $35m US case over loyalty payments that excluded generics4121
World Bank inspection panel registers complaint over Rogun dam financing4211
Model finds 42% erosion rise after Coca Codo Sinclair; state firm disputes it4211
Four Mekong dams trap an average 81% of sediment, Reuters reports431
Expert panel says hydropower amplified 2013 Uttarakhand flood4211
Court in Bosnia and Herzegovina cancels small hydropower permits431
Changing water use cited in background to Menindee fish kills431
CAG audit finds 12 of 44 Ganga sewage plants discharge untreated water431
Tannery relocation in Bangladesh shifted pollution to Dhaleshwari river422
New Zealand Supreme Court bars transfer of industrial water permit to bottling4211
Ontario bottled-water fee about 0.0005 CAD a litre; 2017 proposal to raise it431
Paris brings water under municipal control; operator says it cut costs and prices4211
Japan declares mongoose eradicated on Amami Oshima island431
Signal crayfish carried crayfish plague in Sweden, a 2006 study reports431
US paid farmers to plant kudzu against erosion; later declared it a weed431
Netherlands rewilding reserve records 3,226 deaths in winter 2017–18431
Mali fire ban did not end burning and produced conflict4211
Israel lifts goat grazing ban, citing fire fuel431
Indonesia's fire ban falls on small farmers, with at least 202 prosecutions4211
Nuclear test exposure at Moruroa reported at about ten times official estimate431
Mosquito-control fish threatens critically endangered species in Turkey's Acıgöl431
Rabbit virus most likely escaped quarantine island, probably carried by flies4211
Rats wiped out five endemic birds on Lord Howe Island; 2019 eradication succeeded431
Request to move 64,801 families out of India's tiger reserves4211
Colombian court finds REDD+ carbon scheme violated indigenous rights4211
US Senate probes Nature Conservancy land sales to its own trustees4211
Turkish court annuls 2021 transfer of Gezi Park ownership431
Germany brings coal exit forward to 2030 as Lützerath is demolished4211
Panguna mine waste on Bougainville exceeds 1 billion tonnes, with no clean-up422
Lake Tefé reaches 39.5 °C in 2023; 209 dolphins die431
Brazil reports 570 Yanomami child deaths amid illegal gold mining4121
Nauru's phosphate fund falls from US$1.3 billion to US$0.3 billion4211
Thailand-Swiss electric bus deal books emission cuts to Switzerland431
TotalEnergies reportedly abandoned Congo carbon plantation at 12.5% of target4211
Australian government rejects claim that natural regeneration credits are worthless4121
Danish opinion piece reports Greenland seal exports down 90 per cent4211
Lebanon's garbage piled up after Naameh landfill closed in 2015431
India's scrap tyre imports reach 1.398 million tonnes in FY20244121
FSC suspends Vietnamese pellet maker An Viet Phat Energy over false claims4211
Milwaukee sewage fertilizer Milorganite found to contain about 7 ppb PFAS4211
Nairobi's Dandora dumpsite stays open despite 2021 court ruling431
Kabwe lead-poisoning claim against Anglo American is under appeal in South Africa431
Five people to be prosecuted over Jagersfontein tailings dam failure431
Ramu and Lihir mines discharge millions of tonnes of tailings a year at sea431
French court approves permanent confinement of 42,000 tonnes of Stocamine waste4121
Herfa-Neurode underground store buried 2.8 million tonnes of hazardous waste4121
Hunter River salt discharges are shared through a 1,000-credit trading scheme431
Singapore's Semakau island landfill, mainly incineration ash, to fill by 2035431
Kanpur Rania chromium waste disposal is estimated at 98.46 crore rupees431
68.4% of Port Pirie children had blood lead above 5 µg/dL, SA Health reports431
Peru inventories 6,026 mining liabilities, needing over 3,000 million soles431
Chile's tailings inventory: 601 of 795 deposits inactive, 53 abandoned431
Brazilian expert report confirms leak at Hydro Alunorte tailings deposit431
Canada's Giant Mine arsenic cleanup cost rises to CAD 4.38 billion431
Australian regulator loses case against Woolworths over biodegradable claim431
South Korea agrees to pay first for cleanup of 12 returned US bases4211
Panama asks US to clean up chemical weapons and munitions it left behind431
Caño Limón-Coveñas pipeline suffered 1,500 attacks in 30 years431
Gorongosa's large-mammal biomass largely recovered after war-time collapse4211
Nepal Army guards 14 protected areas; rhino count rose to 752431
Court accepts interim measure against Barroso lithium mine land easement431
LKAB rare earth plan in Sweden would split Sámi reindeer pasture, herders say431
US EXIM Bank approves $1.25 billion for Reko Diq copper-gold project431
Bolivia's legislature withholds approval of CATL-linked lithium contracts431
Gambian president accepts appeal to discontinue Faraba trial4211
Pakiri sand mining refused on appeal; applicant seeks Bream Bay consent431
ICARDA reportedly withdrew Aleppo seeds from Svalbard in 2015; not verified4121
Bird flu outbreak in South Africa killed or culled about 10 million birds4121
Only Ghana has an announced Global Shield guarantee as 17 countries wait431
Galápagos debt-for-nature swap used US$656 million of US political risk insurance4121
Rio Grande do Sul flood claims paid reach R$6 billion as farm insurance subsidy is cut4211
Kenya suspends Microsoft and G42 geothermal data centre plan at Naivasha431
Bangkok canal programme tied embankment works to moving all families431
Community land trust for 11th Street Bridge Park holds over 250 housing units431
Affordable share of London Olympic Park-area homes reached 27%, below 35% target431
China's ecology-oriented development pilots fund restoration with land revenue431
CIPER: over 23 billion pesos of Chile's drought tanker spending went to two firms4211
Rio governor cited sabotage for CEDAE water crisis without evidence4211
Nairobi water pipes cut and blocked with sand, NMS chairman says4211
CAG found delays in 26 of 46 Namami Gange schemes in 2017431
UK agreed up to £21.7bn over 25 years for two CCS clusters4211
Saudi wheat cut and 2018 fodder ban; Almarai's alfalfa farms in Arizona431
ExxonMobil cut and restored Kearl oil-sands reserves as oil prices moved431
Indian state allocated sacred groves to solar parks recorded as barren land4121
US indictment alleges Adani solar bribery; three charges later dismissed4211
Syngenta paid $105m to settle atrazine water-treatment claims41111
Study finds no clear gain from RSPO palm oil certification in Borneo4121
German top court rules 'climate neutral' claim by Katjes misleading4211
US summer flounder and spiny dogfish declared rebuilt after target changes431
Court of Appeal ruled ScottishPower's Ofgem settlement payments deductible4211
India's top court refuses more Bhopal compensation from Union Carbide successors41111
Deloitte's Woodside Browse impact report used peak job figure, critic says431
Four registrations in Australia's nature repair market; NSW audit found demand unmatched4121
Mine offsets in Guinea and Madagascar drew village complaints over water and access4211
Sole bidder re.green wins first forest carbon-rights tender in Brazil431
Mobil advertorials cast doubt on climate science; media studios later sold oil content4211
Amsterdam votes to ban fossil fuel and meat adverts; Paris court faults TotalEnergies4211
US quits 66 international bodies including the IPCC; NOAA disaster database closed4121
Isle de Jean Charles relocation and a $744.6m Chevron coastal-loss verdict4121
Dutch pension fund ABP held a stake in a Mozambique forest fund4211
Russia labels WWF Russia a foreign agent, then an undesirable organisation4211
US regulator cites Holtec over use of decommissioning fund money4211
Eight winners named in Indonesia's waste-to-energy tenders, including Chandra Asri unit4121
Sewage sludge spread on Swiss farmland now linked to PFAS contamination4211
Scripps reported a new source of illegal CFC-11 emissions4121
Japan imposes administrative sanction over unapproved GM silkworm strain41111
Florida jury awards $38.3 million over Chiquita's paramilitary payments431
Grain traders report 93–99% of Cerrado soy as deforestation-free431
Petorca residents rely on tanker water as avocado orchards draw on scarce supply4121
Maldives awards Gulhifalhu reclamation contract to Boskalis without tender4211
World Court says fossil fuel production may be a wrongful act under international law4211
Costa Rica bans bromacil; Del Monte's pineapple permits face challenges4121
EU bans three neonicotinoid pesticides outdoors in 2018; Turkey follows in part431
Turkish competition board fines 13 white-meat firms 3.7 billion lira4211
Walmart and New Zealand penalised over 'biodegradable' bag claims4211
APRIL pulp suppliers linked to forest loss and Cerrado eucalyptus growth4211
Koç and Sabancı named partners of COP31 climate summit in Antalya41111
Türkiye guarantees purchase of domestic coal at USD 75 per MWh431
Andhra Pradesh's community-managed natural farming reaches 1.29 million farmers431
Nestlé settles French bottled-water probe as Vittel aquifer runs a deficit431
Konya Closed Basin records over 740 sinkholes as crops rely on groundwater4211
Ergene–Kocaeli health study unpublished as a 33.7% cancer figure circulates4211
Akyazı company bottles water leased for a thermal hotel; permits cancelled431
İnegöl bottling plant wins environmental approval as 12 neighbourhoods sue4211
Villagers in Bursa's Gözede cut pipes to city water factory4211
Chile's Decree-Law 701 planting subsidy raised tree cover but cut native forest431
Mercer fined A$11.3m over 'sustainable' fund; Vanguard and Active Super also penalised431
4ocean reports over 50 million pounds of trash removed, with no independent audit431
NGO investigation links FSC-certified Ukrainian beech to IKEA; claims not verified4121
Brazilian court halts Bayer licence fees on Intacta soy after patent expiry431
Chilean senator and Corpesca convicted over bribery tied to fisheries law431
Eskom advances tied to Tegeta coal mine purchase, South African inquiry finds4211
Brazil's top court rejects challenge to park cut for Ferrogrão railway431
Brazil regulator cancels Karpowership floating power plant permits431
Thai court lets 712 Cambodian families bring class action against sugar firm4211
Pakistan's 450,000-acre farming scheme for army company halted431
Smuggling reported at Mongolia's state coal company431
Chevron owns Richmond's 'local news' site, which carries no leak reporting431
Adani Group became largest shareholder of NDTV431
Nine Japanese electric companies spent 2.42 trillion yen on advertising, 1970-20114211
Meta kept its news block in Canada during a 2023 wildfire evacuation431
Villagers in Gözede, Bursa cut pipes to a municipal water factory431
Expert found unpermitted water intake at Bıçkıdere, Sakarya431
Court of Accounts found İSKİ allocated springs without tender at low rent4211
Senate motion cites Chiapas bottler concession of about 420,000 cubic metres a year4211
Study found flow deficit at Çataloluk small hydropower plant431
Village council decisions on Hasdeo coal mine reported irregular431
European Parliament votes to downgrade wolf protection431
Study estimates 2,000 tonnes of uranium in DR Congo cobalt exports431
Mbeubeuss landfill plan to hire 500 of more than 3,000 waste pickers4121
UN reaches 75% of funding goal for FSO Safer tanker salvage431
Makeshift oil refineries in northeast Syria linked to poisoned streams431
White phosphorus fires burned farmland across southern Lebanon431
Army removes 130 tonnes of solid waste from Siachen glacier431
US and Cook Islands deal raises concerns over seabed mining talks431
SLN nickel producer stays afloat with state support after Eramet exit431
Zimbabwe to ban export of lithium concentrates from 2027431
Uganda permits sand extraction in Lwera wetland while banning lake dredging4211
Bengaluru tanker prices jumped in a month; government capped them431
Doe Run agreed to spend 65 million dollars to fix Herculaneum air and water violations431
Spain's flood insurance pool paid over 4 billion euros for DANA431
Glencore settles bribery and market manipulation charges in US, UK, Brazil431
Coca-Cola reports replenishing 115% of the water it used in 2015431
Hydrogen sulphide leak at Indonesian geothermal field kills five4211
Sihwa tidal station was built to address pollution in a seawall lake431
1991 World Bank memo signed by Lawrence Summers on pollution in Africa41111
Norway postpones deep-sea mining licensing to 2029 in budget deal41111
US orders stop to Ørsted's Revolution Wind; court allows restart431
Virginia court rejected demand for Michael Mann's emails; defamation award later cut431
Scientist Willie Soon received over USD 1 million from fossil fuel interests431
Hill & Knowlton and Edelman: PR for fossil fuel clients and climate summits431
Western Ghats protection plan left unimplemented; Wayanad villages were listed431
US power-plant sulfur emissions fell over 95%, EPA says41111
US bans DDT in 1972; bald eagle breeding pairs rebound4121
US judge finds tobacco firms violated RICO; remedies later cut back4121
Herders with residence papers forced out of Mkomazi reserve4211
Shell's 1.5C scenario relied on 700 million hectares of new forest4211
Farmer-managed regeneration in Niger spread to about 5 million hectares by 2004431
Greenpeace says fisheries scientist Ray Hilborn got $3.56m from seafood groups431
NextEra unit ESI Energy admits at least 150 eagle deaths at US wind farms431
Ivanpah solar plant is estimated to kill at least 6,000 birds a year4211
Brazil REDD+ forest credits: Suruí project suspended; 2024 Amazonas concessions probed4211
Apo Island reserve raised fish biomass 3 to 4.5 times; Sumilon fell when closed4211
Mountain gorilla census counts 1,063; Bwindi Batwa evicted in 1991 without compensation4211
Occidental buys Holocene as US carbon removal staff is cut to one person431
Snowy 2.0 paid AUD 1.65 million to dump spoil in Kosciuszko National Park431
Germany pays 317 million euros in premiums to 11 coal plants, including Moorburg4121
Westmoreland's claim over Alberta coal exit dismissed; company ordered to pay costs4211
Tribunal awards Eco Oro nothing over Colombia's Santurbán mining ban41111
Mexico ordered to pay $37.1m over denied seabed phosphate permit4211
Ascent Resources loses EUR 598.7m claim over Slovenia fracking ban431
El Salvador won Pac Rim claim; 2017 metal mining ban repealed in 20244121
Kvanefjeld project owner seeks up to $11.5bn from Greenland over uranium ban4121
Zambia voids copper development agreements and raises mining royalty431
Amnesty reported BTC pipeline deal would compensate consortium over Turkish laws4211
Forty dead tiger cubs found in freezer at Thailand's Tiger Temple4211
Planetary sold 625.6 ocean carbon credits as LOC-NESS and ExOIS trials proceed4211
Australian government settles firefighting foam suits near three military bases4211
Indonesia's Nusantara capital faces funding gap as Jakarta keeps sinking4121
Groundwater pumping by nearby farms sank California's Friant-Kern Canal431
China halts commercial sea reclamation projects in 20184211
Germany closes its last hard coal mine, Prosper-Haniel, in 20184121
Kenya tribunal cancels licence for Lamu coal plant4112
Australia rejects Central Queensland coal mine near Great Barrier Reef41111
Kasaragod endosulfan victims still awaiting compensation after court order4211
Unilever sold The Vegetarian Butcher to JBS-owned Vivera in March 20254121
Alaşehir village springs tendered for 39-year bottling plant431
Cobalt child labour lawsuits against tech firms (DR Congo)4112
Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips killing (Brazil)3111
UK undercover policing of environmental groups321
Lucona sinking (Indian Ocean)3111
Ikarian Reefer fire (Sierra Leone)3111
Thunder illegal fishing chase321
Plachimada Coca-Cola plant (India)33
Barro Blanco hydro dam (Panama)321
Chlorothalonil metabolites in Swiss groundwater33
Riachuelo cleanup resettlement (Buenos Aires)3111
Cargill IBAMA fine (Brazil)3111
Dorothy Stang killing321
Owino Uhuru lead poisoning (Mombasa, Kenya)3111
PepsiCo potato variety registration (India)3111
Indus Waters Treaty suspension3111
Alexander II fishing boat sinking attempt3111
Bayou Bridge pipeline arrests (Louisiana)312
AdBlue cartel (Daimler, BMW, VW)321
End-of-life vehicle recycling cartel (EU carmakers, ACEA)321
Saudi regional voluntary carbon market auction321
Fikile Ntshangase murder and Somkhele coal mine (South Africa)321
Fieldwood bankruptcy and US offshore decommissioning321
Fengyun-1C anti-satellite test321
Indian plastic roads and plastic building-material ventures321
Great Barrier Reef Foundation A$443m grant (Australia)3111
Vale ore-sand (Agera) tailings sand321
Worldview International Foundation mangrove project (Myanmar)321
Korea and China swine-fever swill-feed bans3111
Permian produced water discharge and North Dakota brine spills321
India fly ash utilisation and the Singrauli ash dam breach3111
SGS audit gives Cobre Panamá mine 88% compliance; environmental groups object321
Central Java issues new permit for Rembang cement plant after court annulment3111
Kenyan court rules seed-saving and seed-sharing penalties unconstitutional321
Satellite survey ranks Istanbul's Silivri landfill among top methane plumes321
New York appeals court sides with AIG units in PFAS coverage dispute321
US regulator fines Dish $150,000 over satellite's disposal orbit321
Shell and Greenpeace settle Penguins FPSO case; Greenpeace pays RNLI £300,0003111
Isidro Baldenegro, Goldman Prize winner, killed in Chihuahua3111
Celedonio Monroy abducted in 2012 after opposing Peña Colorada mine3111
Sebastián Alonso Juan shot at Ixquisis protest against Pojom dams321
Conservationist Joannah Stutchbury shot in Kiambu, Kenya, in 20213111
Pakistan Supreme Court sets Rs1 per litre levy on groundwater pumped by bottlers321
Bottled water sold as mountain water is drawn from boreholes, Indonesian reports say321
Fethiye village's only water source allocated to a hydro line; detentions follow321
Felling of 619 old trees begins for Tokyo's Jingu Gaien redevelopment3111
Insect-farming firm Ynsect enters judicial liquidation3111
Firms paid 569 million yuan over waste water evaporated in Tengger Desert ponds321
AES coal ash sold as road fill in Guayama, Puerto Rico; arsenic above standard321
Spanish public pool pays over €4 billion in Valencia flood claims321
Turkish public quake pool paid TL 39.7 billion after 2023 earthquakes3111
Kivalina village in Alaska still awaits relocation after 2008 suit against ExxonMobil3111
Santos's Moomba CCS stores 2 million tonnes and earns 1.19 million carbon credits3111
Germany rejects 215,000 carbon credits from Chinese oil-sector projects321
3M agrees to pay US public water suppliers $10.3bn over PFAS321
Soviet nuclear satellite Cosmos 954 crashes in Canada; USSR pays C$3m in 19813111
Dow to cut air pollution at four US chemical plants under Clean Air Act settlement321
Norway's Økokrim fines Equinor over Mongstad refinery spills and emissions321
Farmers Insurance ends about 100,000 Florida home, auto and umbrella policies321
Jury awards $250 million punitive damages over dicamba drift, later overturned321
José Tendetza, who opposed the Mirador copper mine, found dead before COP20321
Gabès students reported poisoned near chemical plant; Barskoon cyanide spill321
Arrests at Kazakhstan recycling fee operator; $1.58 billion reported collected321
Most Nestlé Philippines 'plastic neutral' credits burned in cement kilns321
Danone plant in Puebla occupied by people, then cleared by state forces321
Michigan allows Nestlé to take up to 576,000 gallons of groundwater a day321
Salmon return to upper Klamath basin after historic dam removal3111
China's environmental watchdog withdrew its acknowledgement of cancer villages321
China is building a mega dam in Tibet, upstream of India and Bangladesh321
India's Supreme Court ordered evictions of about 1.18 million families, then stayed them3111
Angolan diamond mine tailings leak: DR Congo reports 12 dead, about 4,400 patients321
Students in Gabès, Tunisia, reportedly poisoned near state chemical complex321
In Uzbekistan's Aral basin, water is tied to cotton contracts321
Greenpeace ends all engagement with APP Sinar Mas over deforestation3111
US Congress lifts 2023 mining ban on Minnesota's Boundary Waters321
Reportedly $600 million of Indonesia's $5.8 billion reforestation fund left forestry321
Record cites CIA file on Onassis for 1954 whaling off Peru3111
Bordo Poniente landfill biogas concession in Mexico City is delayed321
Pollution at Subic and Clark linked to deaths; US says it has no clean-up duty321
Vieques and Culebra military clean-up expected to cost about $800 million321
M23 controls area around Virunga as forest loss doubles in southern sector321
UNEP estimate: about 2,000 tons of depleted uranium used in Iraq321
Lannion Bay shell-sand plan dropped after public resistance321
EPO revokes Schwabe's Pelargonium patent after Alice community opposition3111
European Patent Office finds French institute's Quassia amara patent valid321
Shiseido withdrew a jamu patent after NGO pressure; kratom patents were contested321
Vietnam set per-kilogram compensation for pigs culled in African swine fever outbreak321
SEWA heat insurance paid nothing in 2023; Nagaland pilot paid nothing until 2025321
Data centres account for 46% of PJM capacity auction costs, market monitor says3111
Sheridan 6 farmers have capped pumping since 2013; High Plains aquifer still falling321
Spanish region expropriates olive groves for Lopera solar plants321
Dutch court rules 15 of 19 KLM 'Fly Responsibly' claims misleading3111
Ellen MacArthur plastics pledge off track; Coca-Cola scales back targets3111
Earth Day 1970 seed money came from a senator, two unions and a foundation3111
ICVCM approves three REDD+ methods; older Verra methods left out321
Former EPA chief Lisa Jackson named interim chair of Conservation International321
Sri Lanka's 2008–2011 pesticide bans were followed by a fall in pesticide suicides321
World Bank-backed dams displaced people, and reviews found incomes often not restored321
Jakarta's private water concessions and the groundwater wells that filled the gap3111
Dutch bank FMO backed a 20,000-hectare Sierra Leone sugar cane lease321
Dutch timber firm Koninklijke Wijma penalised in Cameroon in 20023111
Bolivia's 2017 law lifted TIPNIS park immunity and cleared a road route321
Braskem puts Camaçari petrochemical waste unit into Solví joint venture3111
Kiribati buys 5,500 acres in Fiji for $8.77 million, with no sovereignty over the land3111
1970 US corn blight destroyed about 15% of crop grown from uniform seed321
Keep America Beautiful and plastic industry recycling messages3111
Erikli water brand changes hands in Nestlé–Platinum Equity partnership321
Cactoblastis moth, released against prickly pear in Australia, later reached Florida321
Nautilus Minerals goes bankrupt; successor TMC rises from its ashes3111
Court reverses $60 million punitive award in dicamba case321
Tanzania's Tokomeza anti-poaching drive: 19 deaths, four ministers removed3111
Appeals court overturns PFAS blood-contamination class action against 3M321
Greenpeace leaves the Forest Stewardship Council in 20183111
Brazil's 2015 mining code draft was created on Vale and BHP's law firm's computer321
Monsanto admits illegal pesticide use in Hawaii and pays $10.2 million321
French regulator fines Monsanto 400,000 euros over lobbying file321
Court cancels Shell's Wild Coast seismic exploration rights321
DR Congo's 2018 mining code raises cobalt royalty from 2% to 10%321
Philippines lifts nine-year moratorium on new mining permits321
Indonesia's 2025 mining law change opens mining areas to religious groups without tender321
Waste dumped on Teshima island under a 'valuable goods, not waste' label321
Salim Kancil, who opposed sand mining in Lumajang, killed; two men get 20 years3111
Basecamp Research benefit-sharing deals with Malawi and Cameroon; amounts undisclosed3111
Nestlé black cumin patent application draws protest of over 300,000 signatures321
Nigeria's largest pig farm received no compensation after 2020 swine fever outbreak3111
Quilicura data centres draw about 1.5 billion litres a year; wetland largely dried321
Texas court rules wind rights can be severed from land ownership321
2019–20 bushfires burned 88,000 ha of mountain ash forest again3111
Foundations gave 558 million dollars to climate-opposition groups, 2003-20103111
Brazil removes space research chief after Amazon deforestation alerts3111
Decades of planting in Himachal Pradesh did not raise average forest cover321
Rinca island work in Komodo National Park continued after UNESCO asked for a halt321
COP28 decision promoted carbon capture and left room for transition fuels3111
Gabon planned 187 million sovereign carbon credits as TotalEnergies took a timber stake321
Toucan moved 21.6 million legacy Verra carbon credits onto blockchains3111
Germany agreed €2.6bn and €1.75bn coal exit payments to RWE and LEAG321
TC Energy's claim over Keystone XL cancellation dismissed for lack of jurisdiction321
Ruby River seeks $588m-$1bn from Canada over rejected Québec LNG plant3111
Wyss Foundation has given over $807 million to US environmental causes since 20163111
AES cancels Chile's INNA green hydrogen plan after observatory warning321
About 100 tonnes of iron released off Haida Gwaii in 2012 ocean experiment321
Vale and Rio Tinto's Riversdale move households to make way for Tete coal mines321
Cambodia fills Phnom Penh's Boeung Kak lake with sand under 99-year lease3111
Navajo-Hopi resettlement cost over $300 million, anthropologist says321
Wildlife fell on Kenyan rangelands after the 1977 hunting ban, study finds321
Complaint under German supply chain law targets Dole's Megabanana operation321
Papahānaumokuākea marine debris removal collected 298,180 lb in 2024321
Denmark to tax livestock emissions from 2030 at 300 kroner per tonne CO2e321
Producers funded 90% of EDF's 2013 methane study, HPPR reported3111
Ocean Conservancy withdraws 2015 plastic incineration recommendation3111
Predatory snail introduced on Moorea; nine Partula species gone from the wild by 19873111
Union Carbide asbestos insurance case3111
Nestlé Waters: banned treatments and the Vittel aquifer deficit33
Grecia Express ferry scuttling (Greece)211
Ecopetrol Lizama well blowout (Colombia)22
Birgo scuttling (Norway)211
Groningen gas field211
Kerr-McGee / Anadarko fraudulent transfer settlement211
Brazil: benefit-sharing fund (FNRB) and IBAMA biopiracy fines211
Cerrejón coal mine ruling (Colombia)211
La Oroya smelter ruling (Peru)211
José Cláudio and Maria murder211
Peru Ley 31973 forest clearing amnesty and Constitutional Court211
Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 collision211
Macquarie Island cat eradication and rabbit boom22
Princess Empress oil spill (Philippines)211
Dark Basin hacking of climate groups (#ExxonKnew)211
World Bank $100m plastic waste bond tied to Verra credit sales211
Danone, Unilever and BP scaled back sustainability goals between 2021 and 2025211
Ski centre planned inside a national park in Almaty, Kazakhstan211
European court found Turkish permit for Bergama cyanide gold mine breached privacy211
Peru to receive US$60 million from Pacific Alliance catastrophe bond after Loreto quake211
Chile's secret copper law sent 10% of export revenue to the armed forces211
Loss and damage fund has paid about 55% of pledges as first approvals slip211
Milan court acquits Eni and Shell in Nigeria corruption case211
Poland takes Germany to EU court over 35,000 tonnes of illegal waste211
City of Greater Geraldton ends food-organics kerbside trial211
California panel unanimously rejects Huntington Beach desalination plant211
Hefty EnergyBag plastic marketed as recycling was burned in cement kilns211
Danone settles duty-of-vigilance lawsuit over plastic use211
Mary Kay's Kakadu plum patent application rejected in Australia over prior use211
India's 1975–77 Emergency sterilisation drive drew a $66 million World Bank loan211

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