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Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burning throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Photos show scale of massive fires tearing through Siberian forests

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Jul 2020

World Bank-funded factory farms dogged by alleged environmental abuses

John Cannon 16 Jul 2020

COVID-19 may worsen burning and haze as Indonesia enters dry season

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jul 2020

As lockdown ends, Manila’s dirty air is back. It doesn’t have to stay

Mavic Conde 19 Jun 2020

Crediting the lockdown for Sri Lanka’s cleaner air masks the real problem (Commentary)

Lareef Zubair 10 Jun 2020

Overlap of fire, COVID-19 peaks: A ‘catastrophe’ for Brazil’s Amazon

John Cannon 9 Jun 2020

Climate conundrum: Could COVID-19 be linked to early Arctic ice melt?

Gloria Dickie 8 Jun 2020

Aided by weather, Sri Lanka’s lockdown leads to decline in air, sea pollution

Dennis Mombauer 21 May 2020

In Indonesia’s new rice plan, experts see the blueprint of an epic past failure

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 May 2020

Forest fires in Indonesia set to add toxic haze to COVID-19 woes

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Apr 2020

Manila gets its skyline back as air quality improves amid COVID-19 lockdown

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2020
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

Green groups target South Korea’s bailout of coal power plant builder

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2020

Mining activity in Indonesia takes a hit from COVID-19 pandemic

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Mar 2020

Response to one pandemic, COVID-19, has helped ease another: Air pollution

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2020

In Indonesian renewables bill, activists see chance to move away from coal

Basten Gokkon 14 Feb 2020

As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for 2019

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Feb 2020

Indonesia forest fires push orangutans into starvation mode, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jan 2020

Report identifies tycoons controlling site of new Indonesian capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jan 2020

Indonesia fires cost nation $5 billion this year: World Bank

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Dec 2019

Our fires weren’t as bad as in the Amazon, Indonesian officials claim

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2019

Paper and fast fashion fan the flames burning Indonesia’s peat: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Dec 2019

South Korea funding coal plants overseas that would be banned at home

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Nov 2019

Indonesia fires emitted double the carbon of Amazon fires, research shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Nov 2019

Indonesian fire expert awarded for exposing destruction by plantation firms

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Nov 2019

Makers of Oreos, KitKats among brands linked to Indonesia forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Nov 2019

Photos: Peatland fires rage through Indonesia’s Sumatra Island

Nopri Ismi 1 Nov 2019

Lawsuit against Indonesian coal plant reveals permit irregularities

Ahmad Supardi 1 Nov 2019

Area the size of Puerto Rico burned in Indonesia’s fire crisis

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2019
Gold and sand mining near Mandor, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The unrecognized cost of Indonesia’s fires (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2019

Hundreds protest pollution from coal-fired power plant in Java

L. Darmawan 4 Oct 2019

As wildfires roil Sumatra, some villages have abandoned the burning

Taufik Wijaya 3 Oct 2019

Indonesian enforcement questioned as fires flare up on the same concessions

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Oct 2019

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