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

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Sep 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 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

Mining linked yet again to another severe flood in Indonesian Borneo

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Jun 2021

Indonesian president slammed for ‘wait-and-see’ approach on climate action

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 May 2021

Mining sites in Indonesia’s disaster-prone areas a ticking time bomb: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Mar 2021

Indonesian police may probe coal miners over deforestation-linked floods

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Feb 2021

Grim toll from Indonesia’s abandoned mines may get even worse, report warns

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Feb 2021

Nearly one-third of all oak species threatened with extinction, report says

Liz Kimbrough 12 Feb 2021

Indonesia to push for mine rehab, reforestation after deadly floods

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Feb 2021

Planned coal-trucking road threatens a forest haven for Sumatran frogs

Elviza Diana, Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jan 2021

Plantations, mines didn’t worsen flood, Indonesia says. The data begs to differ

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Jan 2021

Palm oil plantations, coal mines linked to deadly Indonesia flood

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jan 2021

Indonesia’s omnibus law a ‘major problem’ for environmental protection

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2020

Indonesian officials linked to mining and ‘dirty energy’ firms benefiting from deregulation law

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Oct 2020

Madagascar introduces stoves that burn rice husks instead of forests

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 2 Sep 2020

With new law, Indonesia gives miners more power and fewer obligations

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 May 2020

Madagascar launches massive planting drive, eyes 60 million trees

Malavika Vyawahare, Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 21 Jan 2020

Demand for charcoal threatens the forest of Madagascar’s last hunter-gatherers

Sam Friedberg 3 Oct 2019

A Malagasy community races the timber mafia to save its forest

Malavika Vyawahare 10 May 2019
A brick kiln in the Irrawaddy region with a mixture of mangrove and other wood. Workers say they prefer the finish on the charcoal made from mangrove. Photo by Victoria Milko.

Illegal charcoal trade threatens Myanmar’s remaining mangroves

Wudan Yan 18 Apr 2019

DRC’s Virunga to welcome visitors again after 8-month closure

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2019

Wildlife rangers in DRC park report waning motivation, job satisfaction

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019

Kenyan charcoal businesses trying to nip invasive tree in the bud

Rosalia Omungo 30 Oct 2018

Deforestation surges in Virunga National Park in the wake of violence

Benji Jones 5 Oct 2018

Study finds widespread degradation, deforestation in African woodlands

John Cannon 27 Aug 2018

95 percent of all lemur species face high risk of extinction, experts say

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2018

The world lost an area of tropical forest the size of Bangladesh in 2017

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2018
Charcoal bags on a boat near Katha, Myanmar. The boat is bound for Bhamo, where the charcoal will be taken by trucks over the order to China. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Myanmar to target illegal charcoal trade with China

Mongabay.com 18 Jan 2018
A boat travels in a tributary to the Irrawaddy River near Katha, northern Myanmar. Along this tributary, charcoal is produced by villages and sold to traders that eventually bring it to China, where it is used in factories that make silicon metal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

The charcoal hunters

Emmanuel Freudenthal, Nathan Siegel 27 Oct 2017

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