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Drax is the largest consumer of wood pellets for energy in the UK.

Sustainable biomass certification scheme is flawed, degrades forests, report finds

Annelise Giseburt 21 Aug 2025

Respite, for now, for bird migration hotspot at heart of Sri Lanka’s wind power dispute

Malaka Rodrigo 20 Aug 2025
James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green hydrogen development threatens wildlife in Chile

Manuel Fonseca 18 Aug 2025
Hydrogen storage tanks are visible at the Iberdrola green hydrogen plant in Puertollano, central Spain, March 28, 2023.

Locals fear Chile’s new port project for green energy will disrupt ecosystems

Aimee Gabay 11 Jul 2025

Energy transition boom drives rise in lawsuits against alleged rights abuses

Mongabay.com 11 Jul 2025
Rukka shows the location of a former coal mine pit that flows into the Nangka River, which is now polluted.

Indonesian civil society urges probe after payout for mine recovery that never happened

Muhibar Sobary Ardan 10 Jul 2025
A woman chants slogans during a march towards the Palace of Justice during the celebrations of "La Pachamama," or Mother Earth Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. The group´s protest that coincides with “La Pachamama Day” is also directed against a provincial constitutional reform they claim is an attempt against their ancestral rights to lands that the state aims to use for lithium mining. (AP Photo/R

In Latin America, energy transition stirs a rise in human rights lawsuits

Aimee Gabay 4 Jul 2025
Solar panels being installed on a roof of a house in Lagos, Nigeria. Image by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo.

Nigeria’s proposed ban on solar panel imports raises concerns

Samuel Ogunsona 26 Jun 2025
Coal mine on a barge in Indonesia.

Indonesian utility PLN ‘kneecaps renewables’ with embrace of fossil fuels

Jeff Hutton 17 Jun 2025
Siphe Mlawuli getting ready to deliver an order in the Cape Town suburb of Parklands. Image by Barry Christianson for Mongabay.

Riding toward a greener future: E-bikes transform food delivery in South Africa

Barry Christianson 9 Jun 2025
Legal counsel with the 27 residents who were arrested at the North Maluku Regional Police headquarters, May 19

Police in Indonesia’s Halmahera Island charge 11 farmers in latest nickel flashpoint

Rabul Sawal 3 Jun 2025

Brazil’s offshore wind farms could sacrifice small-scale fishing in Ceará

Lobato Felizola 15 May 2025
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Banten Province, Indonesia.

Flawed energy road map may block Indonesia’s coal exit, critics warn

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 May 2025
Oil industry giants like Chevron, BP, Shell and TotalEnergies are planning to refit existing oil refineries or build new biofuel plants to produce renewable diesel.

As renewable diesel surges, sustainability claims are deeply questioned

Sean Mowbray 12 May 2025
Banner image of an electric vehicle charging by andreas160578 via Pixabay.

EV supply chain & transport need redesign, Mongabay podcast shows

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2025
Farmers in the fields around a geothermal power plant in Central Java.

Church pressure spurs scrutiny of Indonesian geothermal projects

Ebed de Rosary 23 Apr 2025
Maroon leaf monkeys (Presbytis rubicunda), a vulnerable species found in Borneo's forests.

‘Heart of Borneo’ dams raze Indigenous forests for Indonesia green energy drive

Abdallah Naem 14 Apr 2025

Lithium Triangle mining may strain water sources more than expected, study says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Apr 2025
Dutch forest advocates Maarten Visschers and Fenna Swart (right) protest the burning of forest biomass for energy outside Vattenfall's headquarters in Amsterdam in 2021.

Netherlands’ largest forest biomass plant canceled, forest advocates elated

Justin Catanoso 27 Mar 2025
Banner image of a housing estate in Australia by Calistemon via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Housing affordability through sustainability? Mongabay podcast explores

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2025
Suyono shows his biogas reactor surrounded by plants.

Chauffeur at Indonesia energy nonprofit drives uptake of biogas by Java farmers

Toto Sudiarjo 13 Mar 2025
Coconut plantations on Gebe Island threatened by nickel mining.

Nickel miners dig up Indonesia’s Gebe Island despite Indigenous and legal opposition

Jaya Barends 11 Mar 2025

Forest biomass growth to soar through 2030, impacting tropical forests

Justin Catanoso 6 Mar 2025
A fisherman at the Laa River, North Morowali, cleans clams before selling them.

‘Without us, no scrutiny’: Indonesia’s independent media count cost of US funding cuts

Jeff Hutton 6 Mar 2025
Banner image of African heads of states and partners at the Mission 300 energy summit courtesy of the African Development Bank Group.

African nations commit to electricity for 300 million people by 2030

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jan 2025
The Hadong power plant in South Korea co-fires coal with woody biomass, allowing it to claim it is reducing emissions under the UN loophole.

South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform

Annelise Giseburt 20 Dec 2024
Advocates of next-gen geothermal note that using already-designed oil and gas industry technology can bring socioeconomic benefits, allowing fossil fuel industry personnel to be retrained to work for the renewables industry.

Next-gen geothermal offers circular promise, but needs care and caution

Sean Mowbray 18 Dec 2024

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Annelise Giseburt 12 Dec 2024
Cobalt ore mined in DRC.

Just energy transition reports urge care in surge to reach global renewable energy goals

Sonam Lama Hyolmo and Latoya Abulu 2 Dec 2024
Sumean Gebe, 42 from the O'Hongana Manyawa tribe posing after hunting in a jungle at the East Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia, on August 19, 2024. Image by Garry Lotulung.

Photos: The lives and forests bound to Indonesia’s nickel dreams

Garry Lotulung 2 Dec 2024
DRC mines might be poisoning pregnant women

DRC mines might be poisoning pregnant women

Denise Maheho, Dider Makal 18 Nov 2024

Activists fear supercharged ‘business as usual’ under Indonesia’s new president

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2024

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