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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
Community-based fire prevention and peatland restoration program in Indonesia.

Young Indonesian climate leaders demand safe future in new book

Warief Djajanto Basorie 6 Mar 2023
Aerial image of a reforestation program in the DRC.

Carbon market intermediaries act with little transparency, according to report

John Cannon 24 Feb 2023

Goodbye to blue skies? The trouble with engineered solutions

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Feb 2023
Traditional fishing boats on a Lombok beach.

On Lombok, rising sea levels force fishers into different jobs

Falahi Mubarok 20 Feb 2023
Ismail in Mount Gede, Indonesia, cutting dead twigs to be used as firewood.

Updated guide gives practical advice for buyers of tropical forest carbon credits

John Cannon 9 Feb 2023
The Pesalat Reforestation Project

Carbon markets entice, but confuse, corporations: Report

John Cannon 31 Jan 2023
A protected old-growth forest in Sequoia National Park. Image by Joan Maloof/Old-Growth Forest Network.

U.S. mature forests are critical carbon repositories, but at risk: Study

John Cannon 27 Jan 2023

The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all

Justin Catanoso 24 Jan 2023
Mangrove restoration.

Biodiversity, human rights safeguards crucial to nature-based solutions: Critics

Sahana Ghosh 18 Jan 2023
A man fishing in a lake.

From declining deforestation to quitting coal, Indonesia marks a pivotal 2022

Isabel Esterman 30 Dec 2022
A whale shark swimming with remoras.

2022’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Aaron Roan, Callie Leiphardt, Douglas McCauley, Neil Nathan, Rachel Rhodes 29 Dec 2022
Acampamento Terra Livre Indigenous protest in Brazil, April 6, 2022. Image by Mídia NINJA Via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Top 10 notable Indigenous stories of 2022

Latoya Abulu 28 Dec 2022
Wood chips piled in mounds more than 6 meters (20 feet) high cover the lot of the Enviva wood pellet plant in Ahoskie, North Carolina. Enviva says that it uses wood waste to produce pellets. The whistleblower and Mongabay’s on site investigation at a North Carolina clear-cut site and at the Ahoskie plant provided evidence to the contrary. Image by Justin Catanoso for Mongabay.

The Netherlands to stop paying subsidies to ‘untruthful’ biomass firms

Justin Catanoso 23 Dec 2022

Australia rejects forest biomass in first blow to wood pellet industry

Justin Catanoso 21 Dec 2022
Residents of Hanging Site.

In Sierra Leone’s fishing villages, a reality check for climate aid

Ashoka Mukpo 15 Dec 2022
Coastal peatlands in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Protecting wetlands is key to Indonesia hitting its climate goals, study says

Basten Gokkon 13 Dec 2022
A man canoing among the mangroves

Indonesia’s mangrove revival hindered by conflicting policies

Gafur Abdullah 12 Dec 2022
Kelp forest.

Peat on land and kelp at sea as Argentina protects tip of Tierra del Fuego

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Dec 2022

As EU finalizes renewable energy plan, forest advocates condemn biomass

Justin Catanoso 7 Dec 2022
Peatland restoration.

Scientists plead for protection of peatlands, the world’s carbon capsules

John Cannon 7 Dec 2022
A women harvests leaves.

Indigenous peoples and communities drive climate finance reform

John Cannon 6 Dec 2022
A deforestated site in Edenton, North Carolina.

Whistleblower: Enviva claim of ‘being good for the planet… all nonsense’

Justin Catanoso 5 Dec 2022
Trials of drought tolerant beans in Malawi.

With climate reparations finally on the table at COP27, what now?

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Nov 2022
Members of an Indigenous community in Guangaje, Ecuador after the blessing of a water spring. Image by Azzedine Rouichi via Unsplash (Public domain).

Small share of land rights pledge went to Indigenous groups: Progress report

John Cannon 7 Nov 2022

Is natural gas the solution to Africa’s energy needs? New research says no.

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Nov 2022
Old growth forest in Washington State. Image by Udo S via Flickr.

How the Indigenous Shuar regained their ancestral forest

Mike Gaworecki 2 Nov 2022
Logging operation in the Amazon.

Brazil may fail Paris Agreement targets by 137% if Bolsonaro stays in office

Jaqueline Sordi 7 Oct 2022
Fire in Indonesia forest

Pandemic dip was just a blip as global emissions rebound, report shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Sep 2022
Maasai people.

Cleaning up our own backyard: Racism, speciesism and the environmental crises (commentary)

Fanny Olsthoorn 19 Sep 2022
Torrance Coste stands on a stump

British Columbia delays promised protections as old growth keeps falling

Justin Catanoso 14 Sep 2022
A moray eel among corals in the Mediterrarnean Sea. Image by Enrico Strocchi via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

‘Mind-blowing’ marine heat waves put Mediterranean ecosystems at grave risk

John Cannon 13 Sep 2022

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