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Aerial view of coal mining in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.

Indonesia’s coal gasification reboot faces backlash over economic, environmental risks

Basten Gokkon 13 Mar 2025
Total Energies Plant in Djeno. Behind one can see the smoke rising from the flares. Image by Elodie Toto for Mongabay.

Documents, satellite data expose ongoing pollution near TotalEnergies’ Republic of Congo oil terminal

Elodie Toto 20 Feb 2025
A coal-fired power plant at night in the nickel industrial area in Halmahera.

US security think tank warns of China’s grip over Indonesian nickel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Feb 2025

Short-term air pollution exposure impairs focus & cognitive function: Study

Bobby Bascomb 17 Feb 2025
A coal-fired power plant at night in the nickel industrial area in Halmahera.

Disease surges in Indonesia community on frontline of world energy transition

Rabul Sawal 6 Feb 2025
Coal miners in Meghalaya, India.

Coal gasification, an old technology, is quietly expanding across Asia

Nithin Coca 21 Jan 2025

Firefighters in LA blaze face same toxic exposure as 9/11 responders

Bobby Bascomb 17 Jan 2025
A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Simrin Sirur, Orji Sunday, Karla Mendes 13 Jan 2025
A shipbreaking yard.

Shipbreaking pollutes Türkiye’s coast despite European cleanup efforts

Lyse Mauvais, Wouter Massink 17 Dec 2024

Brazil passes law to cap emissions and regulate carbon market

Shanna Hanbury 16 Dec 2024

Kenya embraces electric buses to combat air pollution

Stephanie Wangari 12 Dec 2024
People clean up plastic trash at a beach in Bali, Indonesia.

Plastic pollution pushing Earth past all nine planetary boundaries: Report

Alden Wicker 25 Nov 2024
A bottlenose dolphin.

Microplastics are sickening and killing wildlife, disrupting Earth systems

Sharon Guynup 21 Nov 2024
Sunset and a Maersk container ship.

Shipping emissions reduction sheds light on marine cloud geoengineering

Claire Asher 13 Nov 2024
Wild male saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) visiting a waterhole at the Stepnoi Sanctuary, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Photo credit: Andrey Giljov [CC BY-SA 4.0]

Earthshot Prize names 5 winners working on environmental solutions

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2024
Greater Greener Gloster community members stand in front of the state capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, as they demand the cleanup of the Drax pellet mill

New survey puts human face on pollution caused by U.S. wood pellet mills

Justin Catanoso 24 Oct 2024
A deforestated site in Edenton, North Carolina.

Delay of EU Deforestation Regulation may ‘be excuse to gut law,’ activists fear

Justin Catanoso 17 Oct 2024

In Bolivia, Indigenous communities struggle to rebuild as wildfires return

Benjamin Swift 8 Oct 2024
The Los Pelambres mine.

In Chile, a copper mining project tainted by environmental damage sues 32 locals

Michael Lieberherr Pacheco 16 Sep 2024

Sumatra citizen lawsuit seeks accountability for haze-causing fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Sep 2024

Indonesia’s new ‘green’ capital drives environmental damage far and wide

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2024

In a fight to save a rare bird, Indigenous communities in Guyana are winning

Carla Ruas 5 Aug 2024
Silhouette of grain crops with the sun in the background.

Sun block: The promise and peril of solar geoengineering

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2024
Tar sands developments along the Athabasca River in Alberta, British Columbia.

A year after toxic tar sands spill, questions remain for affected First Nation

Ruth Kamnitzer 16 Jul 2024
BC wildfire service crew and partners conduct a prescribed burn in southeastern British Columbia in April 2024.

As the world burns, can we learn to live with wildfire health risks?

Ruth Kamnitzer 2 Jul 2024
A member of a Quebequois fire crew assisting on a fire in the Plumas National Forest in northern California in 2020.

The health impacts of escalating megafires are everyone’s problem

Ruth Kamnitzer 1 Jul 2024
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Canada’s 2023 wildfires outsmoked global aviation, yet emissions go uncounted

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jun 2024
Oil refinery smokestacks along the Athabasca River, in northern Alberta, Canada.

Canada oil sands air pollution 20-64 times worse than industry says: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 16 May 2024

Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition

Didier Makal 14 May 2024

Warming climate threatens to worsen air quality in already polluted Kathmandu

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Apr 2024
Workers loading cement.

Circular solutions vital to curb enviro harm from cement and concrete

Sean Mowbray 18 Apr 2024

As fires ravaged Indonesia in 2023, some positive trends emerged, data show

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2024

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