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The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesian banks prop up coal industry increasingly shunned by outside lenders

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 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 side-striped jackal (Lupulella adusta), one of the many species that inhabits the Mau Forest. Image by Bernard Dupont via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Poverty-fueled deforestation threatens Kenya’s largest water catchment

Keit Silale 22 Aug 2022
A refugee from Nigeria walks in the Minawao refugee camp.

Nigerian refugees in Cameroon turn biomass into charcoal to spare trees

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 27 Jul 2022

As Jakarta chokes on toxic air, Indonesian government stalls on taking action

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jun 2022

Planned coal plants fizzle as Japan ends financing in Indonesia, Bangladesh

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jun 2022
The nursery at the heart of Minawao nurtures the green shoots of a recovery.

Cameroon’s Nigerian refugees who degraded their camp are now vanguards of reforestation

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 28 Jun 2022

Slick operator: Indonesian cooking oil probe may spread to biodiesel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 May 2022

Malawi steps up action against illegal charcoal trade (analysis)

Nicholas J. Parkinson 12 May 2022

Coal miner Bayan sues Indonesian investment chief over loss of land

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2022

Mine pits expose the holes in Indonesia’s plan to relocate its capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Apr 2022

For Indonesians, palm oil is everywhere but on supermarket shelves

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2022

Indonesian bill turns coal-derived fuels clean by ignoring true scale of emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Mar 2022

Can the little-known tamanu tree replace palm oil in Indonesia’s biofuel bid?

Nuswantoro 9 Feb 2022

As blackouts loom, Indonesia’s energy crisis highlights its addiction to coal

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jan 2022

Major clothing brands contribute to deforestation in Cambodia, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Dec 2021

COP26 cop-out? Indonesia’s clean energy pledge keeps coal front and center

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Nov 2021

Links to coal mining add to Indonesian palm oil sector’s risk for buyers

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Sep 2021

Brazil’s biofuel program sputters on weak emissions accounting

Sibélia Zanon 8 Sep 2021

Indonesia still clinging to coal despite phaseout pledge, new plan shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Sep 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

Turning Kenya’s problematic invasive plants into useful bioenergy

Anthony Langat 21 Jul 2021

Indonesia bets on biofuels over oil, but EVs could render both moot

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2021

Activists take Indonesia’s mining law to court, but don’t expect much

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 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

Cleaning up Cambodia’s kitchens could curb deforestation, climate change

Marissa Carruthers 22 Jun 2021

Rush to turn ‘black diamonds’ into cash eats up Uganda’s forests, fruits

Alex Tumuhimbise 17 Jun 2021

Coal phase-out plan gets pushback in power-hungry Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jun 2021
Proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Scientists call for solving climate and biodiversity crises together

John Cannon 14 Jun 2021

Indonesia’s biodiesel program fuels deforestation threat, report warns

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jun 2021

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