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Harvested sugarcane in Karnataka, India.

A liquid biofuels primer: Carbon-cutting hopes vs. real-world impacts

Sean Mowbray 20 Mar 2023
Gas-fueled power plant in Riau, Indonesia. Image courtesy of PLN.

Indonesia aims to use gas in foreign-funded energy transition; critics cry foul

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Mar 2023
Hairdressser Flávio Mateus do Santo de Sousa cutting the hair of a customer.

Electricity day and night: Solar power is changing isolated Amazon communities

Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie and Avener Prado 6 Feb 2023
A protest organized against the proposed incinerator in Jakarta.

As waste-to-energy incinerators spread in Southeast Asia, so do concerns

Nicha Wachpanich, Nithin Coca 8 Dec 2022
Women in a garment factory in Bangladesh.

Bangladeshi industries explore renewables as power crisis looms

Abu Siddique 26 Sep 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Emissions and deforestation set to spike under Indonesia’s biomass transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Sep 2022
A mobile chipper making short shrift of freshly felled centenary beech trunks to produce wood chips that are burned “green,” with up to 50% moisture, in a local district heating system in February 2022.

Switzerland set to burn more trees to reach its climate and energy goals (commentary)

Lucie Wuethrich 6 Sep 2022
A power plant under construction in Bangladesh.

Sluggish growth of renewables threatens Bangladesh’s clean-energy goals

Abu Siddique 19 Apr 2022

‘A huge mistake’: Concerns rise as deep-sea mining negotiations progress

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Apr 2022
NASA satellite image of the Rio Tapajos in March 2022.

Dams on Brazil’s Jamanxim River: The advancing assault on the environment and Indigenous peoples in the Tapajós basin (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 29 Mar 2022

Analysis: Elite power struggle sees Vietnam abandon coal, but leaves collateral damage

David Brown 15 Mar 2022

Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await

Claire Asher 15 Mar 2022

Indonesia’s clean energy transition must start with clean rivers (commentary)

Warief Djajanto Basorie 11 Jan 2022

In the Brazilian Amazon, solar energy brings light — and new opportunities

Ana Ionova 4 Jan 2022
Philippine eagle

In round 2 of Philippine geothermal project, tribes dig in for a greater say

Bong S. Sarmiento 31 Dec 2021

Cooking with the sun: Entrepreneurs help launch Mexico’s solar revolution

Sandra Weiss 27 Oct 2021
Boats afloat in a lake of hyacinth at Kisumu. Image by Richard Portsmouth via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

From a nuisance to a benefit, ‘world’s worst weed’ finds new use as biofuel

Federica Marsi 6 Sep 2021

Planned dam in Philippine national park catches flak from activists, officials

Jun N. Aguirre 10 Aug 2021

Turning Kenya’s problematic invasive plants into useful bioenergy

Anthony Langat 21 Jul 2021

Playing the long game: ExxonMobil gambles on algae biofuel

Carly Nairn 6 Jul 2021

Biofuel in Mexico: Uphill battle against bureaucracy, organized crime

Sandra Weiss 2 Jul 2021

Converting biowaste to biogas could power cleaner, sustainable Earth future

Marina Martinez 1 Jul 2021

Indonesia says no new coal plants from 2023 (after the next 100 or so)

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 May 2021
Layang Layang Atoll, Spratly Islands, South China Sea.

‘We’re at a tipping point with coal’: Q&A with Bloomberg’s Antha Williams

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Apr 2021

Indonesia’s net-zero emissions goal not ambitious enough, activists say

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Apr 2021
A modern sailing vessel passes a fossil-fueled container ship. Image via Visualhunt.

New age of sail looks to slash massive maritime carbon emissions

Andrew Willner 15 Mar 2021

Brazil’s Amazon dam plans: Ominous warnings of future destruction (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Oct 2020

Indian embassy in Madagascar becomes first to go fully solar

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2020

Madagascar introduces stoves that burn rice husks instead of forests

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 2 Sep 2020

Burning down the house? Enviva’s giant U.S. wood pellet plants gear up

Saul Elbein 29 Jul 2020

South Korea subsidizing biomass so heavily that wind and solar are being crowded out of the market

Mike Gaworecki 30 Apr 2020

Decade after BP Deepwater Horizon spill, oil drilling is as dangerous as ever

Liz Kimbrough 20 Apr 2020

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