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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

Reports that wild Sumatran rhinos may survive in Malaysia prompt hope, skepticism

Isabel Esterman 8 Dec 2016

‘My spirit is there’: life in the shadow of the Mong Ton dam

Demelza Stokes 7 Dec 2016

Land reclamation in Malaysia puts environment, endangered turtle at risk

Kate Mayberry 2 Dec 2016

Fire on the Salween: Dams in conflict zones could threaten Myanmar’s fragile peace process

Demelza Stokes 1 Dec 2016

Cash-strapped rhino groups turn to crowdfunding, with little success

Jeremy Hance 28 Nov 2016

Damming the Salween: what next for Southeast Asia’s last great free-flowing river?

Demelza Stokes 23 Nov 2016

The Javan rhino: protected and threatened by a volcano

Tom Peeters 23 Nov 2016

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