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Wide shot of scattered buildings on green hills, a mountain on the horizon. Image by Victoria Schneider for Mongabay.

In South Africa, a community says no after a coal miner said go

Victoria Schneider 28 Nov 2022
A boy playing near Tendele's washing plant: the coal mine has impacted life in the community. Image by Rob Symon via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘I have anger every day’: South African villagers on the mine in their midst

Anna Majavu 28 Nov 2022

Indonesia to build coal plants despite $20b deal on clean energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Nov 2022

Sulawesi nickel plant coats nearby homes in toxic dust

Eko Rusdianto 17 Nov 2022

Indonesia seals $20 billion deal with G7 to speed up clean energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2022

Dam construction ignites Indigenous youth movement in southern Chile

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022
A smart meter. Image courtesy of the UK office of Energy and Climate Change.

Let’s use smart tech solutions to deal with climate change, too (commentary)

Ariel Stern 10 Nov 2022
Different kinds of LED filament bulbs.

LED lights could contribute to massive carbon reductions

Ian Morse 9 Nov 2022
Shoebills are one of the endangered species that rely on Lake Victoria in Uganda. Image by Emilie Chen via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

East Africa should promote renewable energy, not oil pipelines (commentary)

Dickens Kamugisha 1 Nov 2022
Playing on an Xbox.

Playing dangerously: The environmental impact of video gaming consoles

Claire Asher 25 Oct 2022
Okapis (Okapia johnstoni) are related to giraffes. Image in the public domain.

Element Africa: Mines take their toll on nature and communities

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2022

Early retirement for Indonesian coal plants could cut CO2, boost jobs, analysis says

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2022

In Colombia, a new president faces old environmental challenges

David Tarazona 20 Oct 2022
Activists and Indigenous peoples holding a protest.

Southern Philippine coal project moves ahead despite community opposition

Bong S. Sarmiento 18 Oct 2022
Fishmongers in the Ndji village market get by with very little. Image by Yannick Kenné.

“Largest of its kind” dam in Cameroon faces backlash from unimpressed fishmongers

Yannick Kenné 13 Oct 2022
A rice farmer harvesting in rice fields.

Thailand bets on coal despite long losing streak for communities

Kannikar Petchkaew 13 Oct 2022
The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesian banks prop up coal industry increasingly shunned by outside lenders

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2022
protest

With fracking promising a quick energy boost, can Colombia say no?

Dimitri Selibas 11 Oct 2022
Women in a garment factory in Bangladesh.

Bangladeshi industries explore renewables as power crisis looms

Abu Siddique 26 Sep 2022
Traditional leaders and indigenous community members including Dennis Tipakalippa, far right, along with EDO Senior Solicitor Jordina Rust, second from left, celebrate their court victory. Image courtesy of Rebecca Parker.

Indigenous leader’s court win halts one of Australia’s ‘dirtiest gas projects’

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Sep 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Emissions and deforestation set to spike under Indonesia’s biomass transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Sep 2022
A mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona), one of the many species that inhabit Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve. Image by AlexisENVN via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New oil refinery ‘a huge disaster’ for Nigerian forest reserve

Orji Sunday 20 Sep 2022

EU votes to keep woody biomass as renewable energy, ignores climate risk

Justin Catanoso 16 Sep 2022
Cambodia's fisheries and food security are at stake as dams continue to blight the Mekong River

Cambodian mega dam’s resurrection on the Mekong ‘the beginning of the end’

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 15 Sep 2022
A mobile chipper making short shrift of freshly felled centenary beech trunks to produce wood chips that are burned “green,” with up to 50% moisture, in a local district heating system in February 2022.

Switzerland set to burn more trees to reach its climate and energy goals (commentary)

Lucie Wuethrich 6 Sep 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia

Annelise Giseburt 29 Aug 2022

‘Cursed’ dam project in orangutan habitat claims 16th life in less than 2 years

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2022

Fighting extractive industries in Ecuador: Q&A with Indigenous rights activist María Espinosa

Maxwell Radwin 22 Aug 2022
Loggers cut down a tree with a chainsaw.

Australian miner threatens lawsuit against PNG for scrapping carbon scheme

Rachel Donald 15 Aug 2022
Rare earth mine

Toxic rare earth mines fuel deforestation, rights abuses in Myanmar, report says

Carolyn Cowan 12 Aug 2022
A Nepali honey collector.

Billions rely on wild species for food, energy and more: IPBES report

John Cannon 5 Aug 2022
A coal mine in Borneo.

Building Indonesia’s ‘green’ new capital could see coal use surge (analysis)

Chun Sheng Goh 2 Aug 2022

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