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Who owns Indonesia’s deadly abandoned coal mines?

Tommy Apriando 25 May 2017

Skewed sex ratio spells danger for rhinos in India’s Gorumara National Park

Moushumi Basu 22 May 2017

With poaching curtailed, a new menace to Nepal’s wildlife

Alex Dudley 17 May 2017

Papua New Guinea moves to launch new coal mining industry

Catherine Wilson 16 May 2017

Facing oversupply, Indonesia scales back its coal-based electricity plan

Lucy EJ Woods 11 May 2017

The rise and fall of Regina Lopez, the Philippines’ maverick environment minister

Keith Schneider 9 May 2017

Coal miners owe the Indonesian government hundreds of millions of dollars

Mongabay.com 8 May 2017

Fighting a plant to save rhinos in Nepal

Giovanni Ortolani 5 May 2017

Despite numerous challenges, rhinos are thriving in India’s Jaldapara National Park

Moushumi Basu 1 May 2017

Philippines bans new open-pit metal mines

Keith Schneider 28 Apr 2017

Indigenous communities resisting dams in Indonesia claim they face repression, rights abuses

Eko Rusdianto 27 Apr 2017

Indonesian court revokes environmental license for the Cirebon coal plant expansion

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2017

Canceled: Plans for a bridge in a critical wildlife area in Borneo have been scrapped

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2017
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Is a property boom in Malaysia causing a fisheries bust in Penang?

Rod Harbinson 19 Apr 2017

Rhino poachers in Borneo: Q&A with a conservationist who lived with them

Giovanni Ortolani 17 Apr 2017

From black gold to wind and solar: How China is turning its back on coal

Denise Hruby 13 Apr 2017
rhino in Nepal

One-horned rhino killed by poachers in Nepal

Mongabay.com 11 Apr 2017

Rare Malaysian rhino still sick, but showing signs of improvement

Isabel Esterman 10 Apr 2017

One of the last three rhinos in Malaysia is critically ill

Isabel Esterman 7 Apr 2017

Rio Tinto walks away from environmental responsibility for Bougainville’s Panguna mine

Catherine Wilson 6 Apr 2017

In post-revolution Egypt, a fierce fight over coal imports

Louise Sarant 5 Apr 2017

Kaziranga: the frontline of India’s rhino wars

Sharon Guynup 4 Apr 2017

In remote Indonesian villages, indigenous communities fight a hydropower dam

Eko Rusdianto 30 Mar 2017

Thousands of anti-coal activists march in Jakarta, deliver complaints to anti-graft agency

Zamzami 29 Mar 2017

World’s second breeding population of Indochinese tigers discovered in Thailand’s forests

Demelza Stokes 28 Mar 2017

Downstream from a coal mine, villages in Indonesian Borneo suffer from water pollution

Mongabay.com, Yustinus S. Hardjanto 23 Mar 2017

Plans to mine coal in South African protected area trigger conservation battle

Kim Harrisberg 22 Mar 2017

Saving orphaned baby rhinos in India

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Mar 2017
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Cambodia’s Sambor Dam plans cause controversy as public left in the dark

Rod Harbinson 16 Mar 2017

Indonesia’s clean coal dreams

Tara MacIsaac 15 Mar 2017

Living above a century-old coal fire, Jharia residents pay the price for India’s mining ambitions

Moushumi Basu 9 Mar 2017
Black rhino mom and calf

Reducing Asia’s hunger for rhino horn

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Mar 2017

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