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Colombia

As Energy, War and Climate Collide, a Conference in Colombia Charts a Path Beyond Fossil Fuels

Participants broke a long-standing taboo by openly linking oil and gas not just to emissions, but to war, displacement and economic instability.

By Bob Berwyn

 Plumes of smoke rise over oil depot tanks hit by a joint Israel-U.S. attack on March 8 in Tehran, Iran. Credit: Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images
A panel announces the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels during the COP30 in Belém, Brazil, on Nov. 21, 2025. Credit: First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels

As the UN Global Climate Talks Lose Momentum, a Smaller Coalition Eyes a Fossil Fuel Exit

By Bob Berwyn
Yuvelis Morales Blanco stands next to Colombia’s Magdalena River. Credit: Christian EscobarMora for the Goldman Environmental Prize

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Protecting Colombia’s Magdalena River From Fracking

By Katie Surma
President Donald J. Trump wants private security contractors to protect U.S. oil companies as they go back into Venezuela to modernize aging oil infrastructure, like this refinery, El Palito in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo state, Venezuela. Credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence

By Dylan Baddour
The convention center in Belem, Brazil, where COP30, the United Nations annual climate talks, took place over the past 12 days. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

COP30 Backpedals on Climate Action

By Bob Berwyn
People gather for a protest against the disappearance of Mapuche leader and environmental defender Julia Chuñil in front of La Moneda Palace on April 8 in Santiago, Chile. Credit: Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu via Getty Images

An Average Week in 2024: Three Environmental Defenders Murdered or Disappeared

By Katie Surma
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro attends the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 19, 2024. Credit: Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images

Colombia’s President Called Out an Alabama Company’s Coal Exports to Israel. Now Alabamians Are Protesting

By Lee Hedgepeth
Members of the Afro-descendant community in mangrove roots in Colombia. Credit: Conservation International

Want To Fight Climate Change? Give Afro-Descendant Communities Land Rights, New Report Says

By Katie Surma
People do chores near the Rancheria River, which runs adjacent to the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia. The Swiss mining giant Glencore has filed multiple ISDS claims against Colombia related to its investment in the mine. Credit: Lis Mary Machado/Anadolu via Getty Images

Biden Administration Reaches Deal Limiting Controversial Protections for Multinational Corporations

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz
People attend the burial of 14-year-old Colombian environmental activist Breiner David Cucuname, who was shot dead during a rural security patrol on Jan. 14, 2022 in the indigenous community of Las Delicias in Colombia’s Cauca Department. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

‘Appalling Figures’: At Least Three Environmental Defenders Killed Per Week in 2023

By Katie Surma
A jaguar rescued from animal trafficking is seen at the Santa Cruz Foundation in Cundinamarca, Colombia. Credit: Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Jaguars, Macaws and Tropical Dry Forest Have a Right To Exist, a Colombian Court Is Told

By Katie Surma
Aymara activists opposed to mining operations in Peru's southeastern Puno region organized on May 31, 2011 for a wave of protests against the Canada-based Bear Creek Mining Corporation plans to open a silver mine in the area. Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images

The International System That Pits Foreign Investors Against Indigenous Communities

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz
A Colombian military police helicopter takes off from the base, which they share with a civilian airport, in Florencia, Caqueta.

Armed Groups Use Deforestation as a Bargaining Chip in Colombia

Story and photos by Alex Price

A Growing Movement Looks to End Oil Drilling in the Amazon

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon basin, on Aug. 27, 2019. Credit: Joao Laet/AFP via Getty Images

Climate Summit ‘Last Chance’ for Brazil to Show Leadership on Global Warming

By Augusta Saraiva

Colombia's Glaciers on Pace to Disappear Within 25 Years

By Max Ajl

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