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An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Deforestation surges in hotspot of critically endangered Bornean orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2023
The Deekali Project: Women washing plastic waste to prepare for the grinding machine at a local recycling facility in Senegal.

As companies buy ‘plastic credits,’ are they reducing waste or greenwashing?

Charles Pekow 19 Oct 2023

Report: Half of plantations in Indonesia’s palm oil heartland are illegal

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Oct 2023

Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2023

Indonesia’s Mandalika project a litany of violations for Indigenous Sasak

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Oct 2023
Ismael Nobre

Cacao and cupuaçu emerge as Amazon’s bioeconomy showcases

Sarah Brown 4 Oct 2023

Indonesia’s peatland restoration claims in question as fires flare up

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Oct 2023
Members of Synaparcam, an association of communities affected by Socapalm holding a banner reading "YES to the respect of community rights" in French. Image courtesy Thierry Didier Kuicheu

Bolloré blacklisted over alleged rights violations on plantations in Africa and Asia

Victoria Schneider 29 Sep 2023

Sumatran province hangs on for late rain as El Niño fires bring heat and sickness

Mongabay Haze Beat 28 Sep 2023

Experts slam massive ‘discount’ in fines for Indonesian palm oil billionaire

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Sep 2023
Ubre Tiblak taps a tree for resin.

Indigenous community fighting a mine in Palawan wins a milestone legal verdict

Keith Anthony Fabro 25 Sep 2023

Deforestation for palm oil continues in Indonesia’s ‘orangutan capital’

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Sep 2023

Investors over islanders as Indonesia uses force to push development project

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Sep 2023
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Meatpacking giant and Amazon deforester JBS bid for NYSE listing challenged

Shanna Hanbury 20 Sep 2023
Tailors are seen working on a production line in a local garment factory in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh apparel industry makes progress in ‘eco-friendly’ manufacturing

Ibrahim Hossain Ovi 19 Sep 2023

El Niño leads to more fires and toxic air pollution in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Sep 2023

Kellogg’s latest to freeze Indonesian supplier over palm oil violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Sep 2023
Laborers at Land Rover's wind energy project purposed for carbon finance in India.

Revealed: Why the UN is not climate neutral

Jacob Goldberg, Leopold Salzenstein, Sarah Brown, Shaz Syed 13 Sep 2023

Indonesian regulator gets 12 years’ jail for palm oil permit bribery

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2023

Court ruling spares Papua forest from further clearing for palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Sep 2023
Aerial view of a road.

Study: Tricky balancing act between EV scale-up and mining battery metals

Liz Kimbrough 8 Sep 2023
Coal protest in Indonesia

Indonesian voters want a clean energy plan, but candidates haven’t delivered

Basten Gokkon 6 Sep 2023
A muddied river.

Muddied tropical rivers reveal magnitude of global gold mining boom: Study

Shanna Hanbury 5 Sep 2023
A Luzon tarictic hornbill.

Online trade in Philippine hornbills threatens birds and forests

Jhesset O. Enano 29 Aug 2023
A scaly-breasted munia in Natore, Bangladesh.

A thriving online market for wild birds emerges in Bangladesh

Maksuda Aziz 29 Aug 2023
Activist Duduzile Dludla of Makhasaneni, standing in front of her home and an umbombe or forest strangler-fig (Ficus natalensis)

South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans

Dimitri Selibas 28 Aug 2023

Activists slam coal pollution from Indonesia’s production of ‘clean’ batteries

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Aug 2023
Three pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus).

New concession in Botum Sakor National Park handed to Cambodia’s Royal Group

Gerald Flynn 22 Aug 2023

Indonesia permit payoff raises alarm about palm oil industry corruption

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Aug 2023
Tires by the road.

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2023
An oil-contaminated jagüeye in the El Jordán property.

Energy company evades oil clean up as spills continue to contaminate Colombian town

Catalina Sanabria Devia 17 Aug 2023
Dairi residents stood in solidarity with farmers and called for the rescue of Dairi from the zinc and lead mines.

Sumatra women farmers celebrate court win against China-backed zinc mine

Rabul Sawal 16 Aug 2023

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