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Japanese, Singaporean banks finance controversial Indonesian coal plant

Isabel Esterman 6 Mar 2017

Will changes to Indonesia’s mining law hurt or help the environment?

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 1 Mar 2017

China’s Domestic Dams: Hydropower not only an export for world’s biggest dam builder

Luc Forsyth 28 Feb 2017

SpongeBob SquarePants and the ‘last frontier’ of the Philippines

Isabel Esterman 23 Feb 2017

Environmental lawyer killed in the Philippines

Isabel Esterman 21 Feb 2017

Grief, anger and fear in the aftermath of a deadly coal-mining disaster in Jharkhand State, India

Moushumi Basu 16 Feb 2017

India’s Manas National Park illustrates the human dimension of rhino conservation

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 13 Feb 2017

Indonesia’s last stand for a coal industry in peril

Tara MacIsaac 13 Feb 2017

Fighting rhino poaching in India, CSI-style

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Feb 2017

Shrugging off the risks, Laos plans to proceed with the Pak Beng dam

Jenny Denton 8 Feb 2017

These Indonesian villages are powered by locally sourced sustainable energy

Della Syahni 7 Feb 2017

In response to pollution complaints, a coal plant in Indonesia offered soap and mops

Nuswantoro 1 Feb 2017
An olive ridley sea turtle hatchling, pictured here in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Efforts to conserve sea turtles disrupted by coal plant in East Java

Nuswantoro 31 Jan 2017

Thap Lan: Thailand’s unsung forest gem under threat, but still abrim with life

Demelza Stokes 31 Jan 2017

Pacitan villagers say coal plant reduced livelihoods, brought little new employment

Nuswantoro 30 Jan 2017

Before the flood: can the Bunong culture survive Cambodia’s Sesan II dam?

Luc Forsyth 27 Jan 2017

World Bank loans support high-carbon development in Indonesia: report

Isabel Esterman 26 Jan 2017

As construction begins on Java’s Batang coal plant, a divided community faces environmental problems

Lucy EJ Woods 24 Jan 2017

Saving the Sumatran rhino requires changing the status quo

W. Aaron Vandiver 20 Jan 2017

Southeast Asia’s coal boom could cause 70,000 deaths per year by 2030, report says

Isabel Esterman 16 Jan 2017

The Dammed Don: Lao hydropower project pushes ahead despite alarm from scientists

Melody Kemp 13 Jan 2017

Trouble in India’s rhino paradise

Moushumi Basu 10 Jan 2017

An ‘infrastructure tsunami’ for Asia: Q&A with researcher William Laurance

Isabel Esterman 6 Jan 2017

Smuggled to death: how loopholes and lax enforcement have sealed the fate of Siamese rosewood

Demelza Stokes 5 Jan 2017

French bank backs out of financing Indonesian coal plant

Isabel Esterman 4 Jan 2017

No let-up in Thailand’s relentless, violent Siamese rosewood poaching

Demelza Stokes 4 Jan 2017

Papua New Guinea’s oil and gas boom – blessing or curse?

David Hutt 22 Dec 2016

Stone, Sand, Water: the key ingredients changing the Salween landscape

Demelza Stokes 21 Dec 2016

Lessons from the $2 billion coal mining lawsuit against Indonesia

Isabel Esterman 20 Dec 2016

Karen people call for a peace park instead of big hydropower in their homeland

Demelza Stokes 14 Dec 2016

Nepal’s extraordinary devotion to preserving its rhinos

William H. Funk 12 Dec 2016

Expedition finds serious damage to Southeast Sulawesi’s marine ecosystem

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 8 Dec 2016

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