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Palm oil from Indonesian grower that burned forest is still being sold

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Jun 2020

COVID-19 and rainforest fires set up potential public health crisis

John Cannon 18 Jun 2020

Indonesia to receive $56m payment from Norway for reducing deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 May 2020

In Indonesia’s new rice plan, experts see the blueprint of an epic past failure

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 May 2020

What can we expect from tropical fire season 2020?

Mike Gaworecki 13 May 2020
Sungai Utik river in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Activists challenge Indonesia deregulation bill that threatens environment

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 May 2020

Healing the world through ‘radical listening’: Q&A with Dr. Kinari Webb

Justin Catanoso 30 Apr 2020

Forest fires in Indonesia set to add toxic haze to COVID-19 woes

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Apr 2020
Rainforest canopy in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Obstacles abound in bid to protect Indonesia’s forests and cut emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Apr 2020

Deregulation in Indonesia: Economy first, environment later. Maybe

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Feb 2020

Burning and bullets: Forest fires push Bornean orangutans into harm’s way

Aseanty Pahlevi 18 Feb 2020

Indonesia targets pulpwood, palm oil firms in civil suits over 2019 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Feb 2020

As 2020 fire season nears, Indonesian president blasts officials for 2019

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Feb 2020

Indonesia softens stance on WWF termination as programs fall into limbo

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Feb 2020

Indonesian environment ministry ends WWF partnership amid public spat

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jan 2020

Indonesia forest fires push orangutans into starvation mode, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jan 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

Indonesian palm oil firm hit with $1.8m fine for 2015 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Dec 2019

Indonesia fires cost nation $5 billion this year: World Bank

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Dec 2019

Malaysia to let RSPO publish oil palm concession maps

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Dec 2019

Indonesia’s fires burned mostly abandoned and degraded land, not forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2019

Our fires weren’t as bad as in the Amazon, Indonesian officials claim

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2019

Paper and fast fashion fan the flames burning Indonesia’s peat: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Dec 2019

Indonesia fires emitted double the carbon of Amazon fires, research shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Nov 2019

‘Timebomb’: Fires devastate tiger and elephant habitat in Sumatra

Michael Standaert 15 Nov 2019

Indonesian fire expert awarded for exposing destruction by plantation firms

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Nov 2019

Makers of Oreos, KitKats among brands linked to Indonesia forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Nov 2019

Photos: Peatland fires rage through Indonesia’s Sumatra Island

Nopri Ismi 1 Nov 2019
Peat fire in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesian court fines palm oil firm $18.5m over forest fires in 2015

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Oct 2019

Area the size of Puerto Rico burned in Indonesia’s fire crisis

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2019

‘Bring it on,’ EU MP says of trade fight over palm biofuel phase-out

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Oct 2019
Gold and sand mining near Mandor, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The unrecognized cost of Indonesia’s fires (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2019

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