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On an island in the sun, coal power is king over abundant solar

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2018

In Sumatra, villagers blame a coal mine for cracks in their houses, and their community

Yitno Suprapto 4 Jul 2018

Delhi residents protest against axing of the city’s green cover

Mayank Aggarwal 4 Jul 2018

Report blames coal-fired plant in Bali for pollution, loss of livelihoods

Basten Gokkon 14 May 2018

Meet the winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018

Activists fear for environmental protection under Indonesia’s revised Criminal Code

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Apr 2018

Indonesia may achieve renewables target, but still favors coal for power

Basten Gokkon 29 Mar 2018

Cities need forests too: A call for forests amid our concrete jungles (commentary)

Alistair Monument 21 Mar 2018

Trees provide ecosystem services worth $500 million to the world’s megacities

Mike Gaworecki 7 Sep 2017

Urban heat island effect could more than double climate costs for cities

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jun 2017
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus. Photo by Jason Hollinger.

New lichen database takes big picture approach to forest monitoring

Amy McDermott 22 May 2017

Nitrogen pollution slows down forest decomposers

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Mar 2017

Trump chokes information flow from EPA, DOI, and USDA

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2017

NASA and NOAA: 2016 hottest recorded year ever

John Cannon 23 Jan 2017

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

Isabel Esterman 16 Jan 2017

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

Mongabay.com 22 Nov 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

Anti-coal activist murdered in the Philippines

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Jul 2016

US oil and gas production ‘dramatically’ increasing harmful ozone-causing ethane

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Jun 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

No more fires in Indonesia?

Erik Meijaard 20 Jun 2016

Peat expert dies from cancer after fighting Indonesian fires

Indra Nugraha 12 Jun 2016

Singapore, Indonesia jostle over anti-haze measures

Mongabay Haze Beat 16 May 2016

Haze-stricken Malaysia proposes drastic new firefighting measures

Mongabay Haze Beat 29 Apr 2016

Peruvian town faces another 14 years of air pollution from mine

Milagros Salazar, Milton López 28 Apr 2016

Haze returns to Kuala Lumpur – but not because of Indonesian fires

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Apr 2016

Unhealthy environment kills 12.6 million people every year: WHO study

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Mar 2016

China to shut down 4,300 old coal mines, ban new coal mines

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jan 2016

Indonesia’s ore-smelting ambitions augur rain of poison in Sulawesi

Melati Kaye 19 Jan 2016

Indonesia seeks re-do on court decision absolving company for haze-causing fire

Indra Nugraha 12 Jan 2016

California declares state of emergency after methane gas leak forces thousands from their homes

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2016
Image taken September 24 from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite shows the "haze" as its peak. Red outlines indicate hot spots where the sensor detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires. Thick gray smoke hovers over both islands and has triggered air quality alerts and health warnings in Indonesia and neighboring countries. Visibility has plummeted. NASA image by Adam Voiland (NASA Earth Observatory) and Jeff Schmaltz (LANCE MODIS Rapid Response). Caption by Adam Voiland.

50+ companies being investigated or punished for Indonesia’s haze crisis

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2015

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