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‘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

Peruvian women unite against toxic metals pollution (commentary)

Cecilia Niezen, Gloria Alvitres 12 Mar 2020

Oil and gas project threatens Brazil’s last great block of Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 9 Mar 2020

BlackRock’s commitment to responsible investing must include human rights (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 26 Feb 2020

In Indonesian renewables bill, activists see chance to move away from coal

Basten Gokkon 14 Feb 2020

Bolsonaro sends Congress bill to open indigenous lands to mining, fossil fuels

Jan Rocha 7 Feb 2020

Report identifies tycoons controlling site of new Indonesian capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jan 2020

South Korea funding coal plants overseas that would be banned at home

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Nov 2019

Lawsuit against Indonesian coal plant reveals permit irregularities

Ahmad Supardi 1 Nov 2019

$65 million deal to protect Congo’s forests raises concerns

John Cannon 14 Oct 2019

Hundreds protest pollution from coal-fired power plant in Java

L. Darmawan 4 Oct 2019

Indonesia rushes to pass bill seen as pandering to mining companies

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Sep 2019

Uncovered coal barges are polluting North Sumatra’s waters

Ayat S. Karokaro 10 Sep 2019

New UN report takes stock of renewable energy’s decade-long growth spurt

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2019

Japan builds coal plants abroad that wouldn’t be allowed at home: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2019
Beira residents carrying belongings wade through flooded street in Beira.

When rich economies cut emissions, poor ones stand to benefit, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Aug 2019

Indonesia investigates oil spill in Java Sea by state energy company

Basten Gokkon 31 Jul 2019

Indonesia’s president signals a transition away from coal power

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2019

Survey: Less coal, more solar, say citizens of Belt & Road countries

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2019

Indonesia electricity chief charged with bribery over coal-fired power plant

Basten Gokkon 25 Apr 2019

Report finds World Bank’s coal divestment pledge not stringent enough

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Apr 2019

Peru’s first autonomous indigenous gov’t strikes back against deforestation

Marcio Pimenta 18 Apr 2019
Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands, where the oil spill occurred. Image courtesy of Google Earth. 

Solomon Islands: Oil stops spilling but environmental toll still being calculated

Catherine Wilson 2 Apr 2019

Will Malaysia become Southeast Asia’s clean energy leader? (commentary)

Christine Milne 25 Feb 2019

For Indonesian presidential hopefuls, burning coal is business as usual

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Feb 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018
A child receives clean drinking water from a rain catchment tank in Aboquehuira, a village of the Siona indigenous people whose traditional water source is contaminated. Image by Dan Collyns for Mongabay.

With no oil cleanup in sight, Amazon tribes harvest rain for clean water

Dan Collyns 27 Dec 2018

COP24: Fossil Fuel Inc.’s outsize presence at talks reflects its influence

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Dec 2018

Brazilian regulators deny French oil giant Total license to drill near Amazon Reef

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2018

COP24: Europe looks to fill the leadership void left by the U.S.

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2018
Members of the Tosepan cooperative’s youth solar panel installation team and the ONergia solar cooperative put the finishing touches on a domestic panel installation while community members chip in. Image by Ethan Bien for Mongabay.

‘Light for everyone’: Indigenous youth mount a solar-powered resistance

Ethan Bien 10 Dec 2018

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