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Solar power brings energy to rural Indonesia, but inequality remains

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2026
Creek in the Colombian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

From pledges to road maps, nations organize around fossil fuel phaseout

Mike DiGirolamo 2 Jun 2026
Model of Jiaolong submersible at the Five-Year Achievements Exhibition. Image by N509FZ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How we tracked China’s deep-sea mining fleet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Kara Fox 1 Jun 2026

Sri Lanka flamingo deaths raise concerns over power infrastructure in wetlands

Malaka Rodrigo 29 May 2026
A glass octopus, a nearly transparent species whose only visible features are its optic nerve, eyeballs and digestive tract.

As economic case for deep-sea mining weakens, industry should halt urgency to begin operation (commentary)

Andy Whitmore 28 May 2026
Lee White managed Gabon’s national parks for 10 years before becoming environment minister. Photo taken from his Facebook page.

Carbon cowboys and unpaid pledges: Ex-Gabon environment minister Lee White on conservation in Africa

Elodie Toto 25 May 2026
Aerial view of a cargo ship. Photo by Cameron Venti / Ocean Image Bank

The most underfunded climate opportunities may be at sea

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 May 2026
Lake Victoria in Kenya. Image by Jozef020 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Kenyan communities protest planned nuclear plant near Lake Victoria

Elodie Toto 22 May 2026
A miner in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2023. Image by Electronics Watch via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

‘Corporate capture’ of critical minerals risks repeating DRC’s extractive past, warns indigenous leader

David Akana 22 May 2026
A goatherd looks through solar panels in Bangladesh. Image by UN Environment Programme/Reza Shariar Rahman via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Bangladesh’s energy crunch highlights the promise — and limits — of solar

Md Jahidul Islam 21 May 2026
The Mill Creek coal-fired power plant in the U.S. state of Kentucky is owned and operated by Louisville Gas & Electric. Image by Willian Alden via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

World burned less coal in 2025, but built more plants over energy uncertainty

Ashoka Mukpo 21 May 2026
Ed Singson shows off the seaweed in his bucket

Philippine fishing and Indigenous communities wary of clean energy boom in Marcos stronghold

Michael Beltran 18 May 2026

New energy deals for Africa sealed at Nairobi summit

David Akana 15 May 2026

Canada aims to double its electric grid by 2050 with clean energy and lower costs for users

Associated Press 15 May 2026
Solar panels in Bali, Indonesia.

Solar brings power to women entrepreneurs in Borneo, but rural energy inequality remains

Yuda Almerio 14 May 2026

Africa secures major clean energy deals as France deepens investment push

Associated Press 13 May 2026
Kenyan President William Ruto speaks during an event at the recently-concluded Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi. Image courtesy of the Presidency of Kenya.

Kenya’s Ruto rejects “raw mineral export” future for Africa

David Akana 13 May 2026

New Congo oil find highlights Africa’s energy paradox amid Hormuz crisis

Elodie Toto 11 May 2026
Solar panels being installed on a roof of a house in Lagos, Nigeria. Image by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo.

New report questions Africa’s oil and gas promise

David Akana 8 May 2026
Children and adults cleaning and washing minerals in Kakanda, DRC. Image by Didier Makal/ Mongabay.

UN report flags disproportionate costs of clean energy transition

Victoria Schneider 30 Apr 2026
The Nkhundye biogas plant under construction. Image courtesy of NACRO.

A village biogas project tests Zambia’s push to improve rural energy access

Sokosi Silvester Banda 29 Apr 2026
Wind farm off Pingtan Island in Pingtan county, Fuzhou, China. Image by Kilian Murphy via Unsplash.

Offshore wind’s clean energy potential remains largely untapped, say experts

Sean Mowbray 27 Apr 2026
A solar power plant installation for a mosque. Image by Jaka Hendra Baittri/Mongabay Indonesia.

Fossil fuel subsidies and high costs stall energy transition across rural Indonesia

Luh De Suriyani 21 Apr 2026
A Philippine duck (Anas luzonica) at Liguasan Marsh.

Energy crisis revives push to drill in Philippines’ largest intact wetland

Bong S. Sarmiento 17 Apr 2026

Repeated failures expose gaps in Indonesia’s nickel waste management

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Apr 2026

Africa’s solar costs could rise as China cuts export subsidies

Elodie Toto 10 Apr 2026
Nickel mining on Manuran Island. Image courtesy of Auriga Nusantara.

Indonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025, reversing years of decline

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Apr 2026

Oil surge sharpens calls for Indonesia to shift away from fossil fuels

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Apr 2026
Dump trucks maneuver at Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park in North Maluku province, June 2024.

US-Indonesia trade deal slammed as ‘extractive colonialism’ over mining, fossil fuels

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2026
Farmers sow rice in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.

A nature-based solution to save the Mekong Delta’s water future (commentary)

Pham Phan Long 26 Mar 2026

Another legal challenge for TotalEnergies in South Africa  

Victoria Schneider 24 Mar 2026

Vietnam and Russia advance nuclear power deal as energy security concerns grow in Southeast Asia

Associated Press 24 Mar 2026

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