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NYT explores life and impact of Chico Mendes, “a Fighter for the Amazon”

Mike Gaworecki 28 Nov 2016

69m people breathed toxic smoke from 2015 Indonesian fires: study

Mongabay.com 22 Nov 2016

‘A man schooled in the Amazon:’ Q&A with director of new feature film about the fight to save the rainforest

Mike Gaworecki 9 Nov 2016

Parents who say Indonesia’s haze killed their children testify in citizen suit

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 Nov 2016

Hectare by hectare, an indigenous man reforested a jungle in Indonesia’s burned-out heartland

Indra Nugraha 26 Oct 2016

Fires ravaged forests in Indonesian palm oil giant Astra’s land in 2015

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2016

Fires driving deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mongabay.com 29 Sep 2016

Indonesia seeks foreign funds to aid peat restoration drive

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Sep 2016

SE Asian governments dismiss finding that 2015 haze killed 100,300

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Sep 2016

Wildfires threaten Peruvian Indigenous communities and national park

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 19 Sep 2016

Canada’s eastern boreal forest could become a climate change refuge

William H. Funk 16 Sep 2016

Pulp and paper supplier denies draining peat on island near Singapore

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Sep 2016

Greenpeace firefighters attacked by armed men in Russia

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2016

The alarming number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon

Natália Girão Rodrigues de Mello 8 Sep 2016

Indonesian government to investigate Korean palm oil giant over burning in Papua

Mongabay.com 7 Sep 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesian military plans anti-haze operation in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 2 Sep 2016

No fire, no food: tribe clings to slash-and-burn amid haze crackdown

Cory Rogers 1 Sep 2016

Korean palm oil firm burned large tracts of forestland in Indonesia, NGOs allege

Alice Cuddy 1 Sep 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Another Indonesian court convicts a company of causing fires

Mongabay Haze Beat 30 Aug 2016

The biologist terrifying the US Forest Service and the timber and forest fire-fighting industries

Derek E. Lee 29 Aug 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesian police arrest hundreds in connection to burning land

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Aug 2016

Raging Amazon forest fires threaten uncontacted indigenous tribe

Mike Gaworecki 23 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian parliament to investigate fire-linked firms in Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Aug 2016
Drainage canal dug through peat swamp in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesia’s peat restoration chief calls for protection of all peat domes

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi 18 Aug 2016

Researchers say addressing the second D in REDD can benefit the climate while ensuring timber harvests

Mike Gaworecki 17 Aug 2016

Field Notes: Saving America’s last wild meat-eating Venus flytraps

Elizabeth Devitt 15 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Company ordered to pay record $76m over fires in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Hundreds sickened in Indonesia’s Aceh as peat fires burn

Junaidi Hanafiah 9 Aug 2016

IPOP’s demise undercuts palm oil industry progress [commentary]

Dave McLaughlin 8 Aug 2016

RSPO lifts suspension of Malaysian palm oil giant IOI

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

15 fire-linked firms escape prosecution in Indonesia’s Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 28 Jul 2016

Haze epicenter receives environmental award in Indonesia

Aria Danaparamita 23 Jul 2016

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