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Companies use COVID-19 to weaken standards, secure subsidies: Report

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2020

On the brink of a coal boom, Papuans ask who will benefit

Febriana Firdaus 21 Apr 2020

Decade after BP Deepwater Horizon spill, oil drilling is as dangerous as ever

Liz Kimbrough 20 Apr 2020

As investment giant BlackRock pulls back from coal, NGOs urge the same for biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 17 Apr 2020

Wireless grids and towers of power: Engineering our way out of dirty energy

Ian Morse 17 Apr 2020

Indonesia’s miners exploit loopholes to avoid restoring mining sites

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Apr 2020

Study projects 30% more forest cover if wood biomass is managed right; critics call it a disaster

Lauren Crothers 15 Apr 2020

In a Colombian wetland, oil woes deepen with the arrival of fracking

Mauricio Ochoa, Semana Sostenible 15 Apr 2020
Newly established oil palm plantation in Central Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia won’t ‘sacrifice economy’ for more ambitious emissions cuts

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Apr 2020
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

Green groups target South Korea’s bailout of coal power plant builder

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2020

Colombian indigenous groups rush to protect elders, leaders from COVID-19

Taran Volckhausen 10 Apr 2020

Brazilian government office responds to Fearnside’s BR-319 oil & gas commentary

Philip M. Fearnside 8 Apr 2020

In Sumatra, an indigenous plea to stop a coal road carving up a forest

Elviza Diana 8 Apr 2020

Gold mining threatens indigenous forests in the Brazilian Amazon

John Cannon 8 Apr 2020

A wave-powered ferry aims to forge a new path for shipping in the Philippines

Mongabay.com 7 Apr 2020
Waimiri-Atroari indigenous village, where the Kinja indigenous people live in the northernmost state of Roraima, in the Brazilian Amazon. A federal judge has ordered government websites to publish a letter from the Kinja indigenous people for 30 days as part of their right of response to racist rhetoric by the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro. Image by Maiká Schwade/CPT Amazonas

Indigenous group wins unprecedented right of reply to Bolsonaro’s racist invective

Shanna Hanbury 7 Apr 2020

As COVID-19 spreads, commodity markets rumble

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Apr 2020

Telling big environmental stories in a close-knit country (insider)

Carinya Sharples 6 Apr 2020
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Inside the fight to save the Niger Delta red colobus

Orji Sunday 31 Mar 2020

Mining activity in Indonesia takes a hit from COVID-19 pandemic

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Mar 2020

Idea that electric cars might produce as much emissions as fossil-fueled vehicles ‘essentially a myth’

Mongabay.com 25 Mar 2020

National parks pay the price as land conflicts intensify in Colombia

Taran Volckhausen 24 Mar 2020

Scientists call for independent review of dam project in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Mar 2020

Oil exploration at odds with peatland protection in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 23 Mar 2020

‘Unbridled exploitation’: Mining amendments a boon for Indonesia’s coal industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Mar 2020

Response to one pandemic, COVID-19, has helped ease another: Air pollution

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2020

Arctic permafrost moving toward crisis, abrupt thaw a growing risk: Studies

Gloria Dickie 18 Mar 2020

Why did Ecuador’s tallest waterfall suddenly disappear?

Antonio José Paz Cardona 18 Mar 2020
A butterfly in the forests of Vietnam. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritizes trees and people. Emissions? Not so much

CJ Clouse 13 Mar 2020

Peruvian women unite against toxic metals pollution (commentary)

Cecilia Niezen, Gloria Alvitres 12 Mar 2020

Complaint alleges oil company left Peru communities’ environment in ruins

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2020

Indonesia’s Lake Poso, an evolutionary ‘gem,’ threatened by dam

Ian Morse 12 Mar 2020

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