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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

Wireless grids and towers of power: Engineering our way out of dirty energy

Ian Morse 17 Apr 2020

COP25: EU officials say biomass burning policy to come under critical review

Justin Catanoso 16 Dec 2019

COP25: Wood pellet CEO claims biomass carbon neutrality, despite science

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2019

UN and policymakers, wake up! Burning trees for energy is not carbon neutral (commentary)

Mary Booth 16 Sep 2019

New UN report takes stock of renewable energy’s decade-long growth spurt

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2019

Indonesian court cancels dam project in last stronghold of tigers, rhinos

Junaidi Hanafiah 2 Sep 2019

Carbon to burn: UK net-zero emissions pledge undermined by biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 19 Jun 2019

Shift to renewable energy could have biodiversity cost, researchers caution

Ashley Stumvoll 18 Jun 2019

No need to dam free-flowing rivers to meet world’s climate and energy targets

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2019

Indonesia electricity chief charged with bribery over coal-fired power plant

Basten Gokkon 25 Apr 2019
Tapiatpia, the first solar canoe, on its 25-day inaugural voyage from Lago Agrio in northeastern Ecuador toward Sharamentsa in 2017. Image by Fundación Kara Solar.

Conceived in a dream, new solar canoe will serve Amazon tribes

Gabriela Balarezo 3 Apr 2019

Sarawak can invest in or give away its future (commentary)

Daniel Kammen 1 Apr 2019

EU sued to stop burning trees for energy; it’s not carbon neutral: plaintiffs

Justin Catanoso 6 Mar 2019

Financiers to discuss hydropower as climate-change mitigation, but dams are not ‘clean energy’ (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 26 Feb 2019

Will Malaysia become Southeast Asia’s clean energy leader? (commentary)

Christine Milne 25 Feb 2019

For Indonesian presidential hopefuls, burning coal is business as usual

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Feb 2019

Jammin’ at wind farms may help save bats

Mary Bates 11 Feb 2019

COP24: Summit a step forward, but fails to address climate urgency

Justin Catanoso 17 Dec 2018

COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2018

‘Drifters of opportunity’: Seabirds track energy in tidal currents

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2018
Coal protest in Indonesia

Activists urge end to South Korean funding of Indonesia coal plants

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2018

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