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Burning peat forest and oil palm in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Norway pledges $50m to fund Indonesia’s peat restoration

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Feb 2016

Fires burned 26% of forestry giant’s South Sumatra plantations in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Feb 2016

With haze threatening return, Indonesian forestry giant pushes peatlands restoration model

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Feb 2016
Human-wildlife conflicts could potentially be reduced with the introduction of fully certified palm oil for Sabah. Photo shows an elephant stranded in a smallholder’s farm. Photo and caption courtesy of LEAP.

Do poor environmental practices affect palm oil firms’ bottom lines on a scale meaningful for investors and financiers?

Pek Shibao 1 Feb 2016
Pulp and paper plantation on peatland in Riau. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

APP to work with 500 villages to combat deforestation

Loren Bell 13 Jan 2016

Indonesia seeks re-do on court decision absolving company for haze-causing fire

Indra Nugraha 12 Jan 2016

What’s ahead for rainforests in 2016? 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2016
Image taken September 24 from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite shows the "haze" as its peak. Red outlines indicate hot spots where the sensor detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires. Thick gray smoke hovers over both islands and has triggered air quality alerts and health warnings in Indonesia and neighboring countries. Visibility has plummeted. NASA image by Adam Voiland (NASA Earth Observatory) and Jeff Schmaltz (LANCE MODIS Rapid Response). Caption by Adam Voiland.

50+ companies being investigated or punished for Indonesia’s haze crisis

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2015

Riau emergency status to end as S. Sumatra pledges peat clampdown

Mongabay Haze Beat 24 Nov 2015

The impacts of haze on Southeast Asia’s wildlife

Jose Hong 19 Nov 2015

VP Kalla fans flames in Manila as Indonesia presses on with water bombing

Mongabay Haze Beat 18 Nov 2015

From fires to floods: Indonesia’s disaster agency prepares for rain

Mongabay Haze Beat 17 Nov 2015

Singapore calls end of haze this year as Indonesia continues to push peat plans

Mongabay Haze Beat 16 Nov 2015
Members of the indigenous community live at the riverbanks in Kapuas river where the air is engulfed with thick haze at Sei Ahass village, Kapuas district, Central Kalimantan province on Borneo island, Indonesia. These fires are a threat to the health of millions. Smoke from landscape fires kills an estimated 110,000 people every year across Southeast Asia, mostly as a result of heart and lung problems, and weakening newborn babies.

Indonesia bans peatlands destruction

Mongabay.com 10 Nov 2015
Picture courtesy of Greenpeace.

Photos confirm Indonesia being burned for palm oil

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Nov 2015
APP fire-fighting crew in action.

APP pumps South Africa specialists to join haze fire fight

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Nov 2015
Members of the indigenous community live at the riverbanks in Kapuas river where the air is engulfed with thick haze at Sei Ahass village, Kapuas district, Central Kalimantan province on Borneo island, Indonesia. These fires are a threat to the health of millions. Smoke from landscape fires kills an estimated 110,000 people every year across Southeast Asia, mostly as a result of heart and lung problems, and weakening newborn babies.

Greenpeace releases dramatic haze photos as Indonesian fire emissions surpass 1.6B tons

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2015

Raja Ampat fires destroy livelihoods; Sumatrans suffer from drought amid haze

Mongabay Haze Beat 28 Oct 2015

Indonesia’s massive haze problem is Jokowi’s big opportunity

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2015

Jokowi hints at company crackdown as Kalimantan residents prepare haze class action suit

Mongabay Haze Beat 21 Oct 2015

Carbon emissions from Indonesia’s peat fires exceed emissions from entire U.S. economy

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Oct 2015

Plantation companies challenged by haze-causing fires in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2015

NASA photo shows New Guinea going up in flames

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2015

Greenpeace releases dramatic drone video of Indonesia’s fires

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2015

‘Maybe that’s why there’s so many fires’: Was a peat swamp illegitimately stripped of protected status in Indonesia?

Jay Fajar, Sapariah Saturi 2 Oct 2015

Singapore takes legal action against 5 Indonesian companies over haze

1 Oct 2015

NASA photo reveals Asia’s choking haze

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2015

As haze chokes Sumatra, farmers ask Jokowi for greater land rights

Sapariah Saturi, Taufik Wijaya 28 Sep 2015

In haze-choked Palangkaraya, air quality five times ‘hazardous’ levels

Jenito, Sapariah Saturi 25 Sep 2015

Many solutions to Southeast Asia’s haze problem proposed, but no end in sight

Mike Gaworecki 22 Sep 2015

Who’s responsible for Indonesia’s fires?

Jogi Sirait 22 Sep 2015

Children are dying from respiratory ailments as haze blankets Sumatra

Made Ali 14 Sep 2015

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