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Wildlife experts warn huge facility on the Valdés peninsula in Patagonia could be devastating for ‘a treasure chest of wildlife’

Since the first big finds in the 1940s, Brazil’s politicians have vowed all of its people would benefit. But in some oil towns, one in four people still live below the poverty line

Company to carry out more tests on its Santos basin find as it continues shift from renewables back to fossil fuels

Company renews focus on fossil fuels and believes Santos basin could be its largest find since 1999

We must avoid inequalities between the global north and global south being perpetuated in the digital age

Sale covering 56,000 square miles set to go ahead despite opposition from Indigenous and environmental groups

Small-scale schemes are replacing dirty diesel with clean electricity in remote areas – and ensuring a just transition

Months after devastating rains displaced 420,000 people in Rio Grande do Sul, an unusual consensus has formed around the need for a faster transition to renewables

Facing a severe drought and reliant on hydropower, the country is enduring relentless blackouts. But experts say opportunities have been missed to adapt and diversify

Their fuel resources have long been plundered by others, while national grids have failed to connect them. Now, solar panels could give more than electricity to Indigenous people

Authorities say they are gradually re-establishing electrical service across the island, including to hospitals

Authorities had said they were re-establishing electricity service after a power plant failed on Friday

Colombian environment minister Susana Muhamad once worked for Shell. Now, as the country gears up to host the biodiversity Cop16, she is calling for a just transition away from fossil fuels

As demand for the tin ore cassiterite soars, special forces units of Brazil’s Ibama environment agency must play a cat and mouse game with the thousands of illegal miners pouring into Yanomami reserves

Despite climate-friendly plans, the government’s controversial decision to take over the Trans Mountain pipeline made it one of world’s biggest promoters of fossil fuel projects