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Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia’s plantation lobby challenges environmental law

Basten Gokkon, Lusia Arumingtyas 7 Jun 2017
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus. Photo by Jason Hollinger.

New lichen database takes big picture approach to forest monitoring

Amy McDermott 22 May 2017

Indonesian governor asks president to let timber firms drain peat in his province

Lusia Arumingtyas 20 May 2017

Nitrogen pollution slows down forest decomposers

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Mar 2017

Greenpeace slams paper giant over loophole in fire-prevention policy

Alice Cuddy 10 Feb 2017

Trump chokes information flow from EPA, DOI, and USDA

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2017
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Green groups want paper giant to stop using drained peat in Indonesia

Mongabay Haze Beat 23 Jan 2017

NASA and NOAA: 2016 hottest recorded year ever

John Cannon 23 Jan 2017

HSBC financing tied to deforestation, rights violations for palm oil in Indonesia

John Cannon 18 Jan 2017

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

Isabel Esterman 16 Jan 2017

How local elites earn money from burning land in Indonesia

Alice Cuddy 16 Jan 2017
A pile of wood that has been prepared to be burned in land controlled by Korindo in Papua. Photo courtesy of Mighty Earth

Korean company bans forest clearing for Indonesian palm oil concessions

Mongabay.com 12 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

As accusations fly, paper giant appears to stand by its replanting of burned peat in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 22 Dec 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Green groups raise red flags over Jokowi’s widely acclaimed haze law

Mongabay Haze Beat 9 Dec 2016

69m people breathed toxic smoke from 2015 Indonesian fires: study

Mongabay.com 22 Nov 2016

Parents who say Indonesia’s haze killed their children testify in citizen suit

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 Nov 2016

Hectare by hectare, an indigenous man reforested a jungle in Indonesia’s burned-out heartland

Indra Nugraha 26 Oct 2016

Fires ravaged forests in Indonesian palm oil giant Astra’s land in 2015

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2016

Indonesia seeks foreign funds to aid peat restoration drive

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Sep 2016

SE Asian governments dismiss finding that 2015 haze killed 100,300

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Sep 2016

Pulp and paper supplier denies draining peat on island near Singapore

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Sep 2016

Indonesian government to investigate Korean palm oil giant over burning in Papua

Mongabay.com 7 Sep 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesian military plans anti-haze operation in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 2 Sep 2016

No fire, no food: tribe clings to slash-and-burn amid haze crackdown

Cory Rogers 1 Sep 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Another Indonesian court convicts a company of causing fires

Mongabay Haze Beat 30 Aug 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesian police arrest hundreds in connection to burning land

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian parliament to investigate fire-linked firms in Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Aug 2016
Drainage canal dug through peat swamp in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesia’s peat restoration chief calls for protection of all peat domes

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi 18 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Company ordered to pay record $76m over fires in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

15 fire-linked firms escape prosecution in Indonesia’s Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 28 Jul 2016

Haze epicenter receives environmental award in Indonesia

Aria Danaparamita 23 Jul 2016

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