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Mining companies plan to solve a transport bottleneck with a new road that opens up tiger habitat and risks illegal logging.
Local community seeks justice through the courts over forced evictions and lack of consultation at Ecuador's Mirador copper mine.
The Mirador copper mine has pitted locals against the government and a Chinese mining company they say failed to consult them and forcibly evicted them, writes Ning Hui.
After just two months, local protests and legal action brought operations at Ecuador's Rio Blanco mine to a halt. But the saga is far from over.
Sandwiched between a melting glacier and a new dam, residents of Heishui town in China's Sichuan province face a changing environment. Sean Gallagher's images, featured on the China Dialogue website.
This year, photographer Sean Gallagher travelled across China, documenting the impact of the country’s vanishing wetlands. In a series of images, he introduces a striking story of decline.
Desertification is the gradual transformation of arable and habitable land into desert, normally caused by climate change or the destructive use of land. Each year, desertification and drought account for US$42 billion loss in food productivity worldwide.
It is estimated that nearly 20% of China's land area, some 1.74 million square kilometres, is now classified as desert. Affecting the lives of an estimated 400 million people, it is one of the most important environmental issues in China today.
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