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Attendees from Brazil pose during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 5, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Image by COP28 / Mahmoud Khaled via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed).

Little achieved for Indigenous groups at U.N. climate summit, delegates say

Dimitri Selibas 19 Dec 2023

Indonesia pushes carbon-intensive ‘false solutions’ in its energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Dec 2023
Digital screens in New York's Times Square.

The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 2 Nov 2023
Aerial view of a road.

Study: Tricky balancing act between EV scale-up and mining battery metals

Liz Kimbrough 8 Sep 2023
Coal protest in Indonesia

Indonesian voters want a clean energy plan, but candidates haven’t delivered

Basten Gokkon 6 Sep 2023
José Martins and another fisher.

In Brazil, rural communities are caught in the eye of the wind farm storm

Giovanna Carneiro, Arnaldo Sete, Marco Zero 4 Sep 2023
Traffic on road.

EVs offer climate hope, but total auto supply chain revamp is vital

Sean Mowbray 10 Aug 2023
Aerial view of traffic.

Internal combustion vs. EVs: Learning from the past to boost sustainability

Sean Mowbray 9 Aug 2023
Nautilus pompilius shell

Nuclear pioneers press ahead with plans for Indonesia island frontier

Nopri Ismi 24 Jul 2023

A just energy transition requires better governance & equity in the DRC

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Jul 2023
A minke whale near Svalbard.

Norway cites ‘green transition’ in move toward embracing deep-sea mining

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jun 2023

Indonesian coal giant Adaro’s ‘sustainable’ smelter slammed as ‘greenwashing’

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2023

A powerful U.S. political family is behind a copper mine in the Colombian rainforest

Andrés Bermúdez Liévano 14 Jun 2023
The endangered pig-nosed turtle, also known as the Fly River turtle, lives in northern Australian and southern New Guinea, including in the area Medco is operating in. Image by Jin Kemoole/Flickr.

Report: Forest-razing biomass plant in Indonesia got millions in green funds

Philip Jacobson 2 Jun 2023
A trefoil horseshoe bat

Flooding for hydropower dams hits forest-reliant bats hard, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 26 May 2023
Yuliana and Singapue, workers in an oil palm plantation

From palm oil waste to cellulosic ethanol: Indonesia’s opportunity (commentary)

Tenny Kristiana 12 May 2023
Lagae and biofuel.

As Exxon bows out, industry takes step toward sustainable algae biofuels

Carly Nairn 9 May 2023
An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis). Image by Martinus Scriblerus via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Apache tribe decry loss of sacred site to massive copper mine at both court and the U.N.

Kate Schimel 27 Apr 2023
Soraida Chindoy, 38, Indigenous leader from the Inga community of the Condagua reservation. She has been part of the movement to stop the mining project from the beginning. Image by Antonio Cascio for Mongabay.

Plan to mine ‘clean energy’ metals in Colombian Amazon splits communities

Natalia Torres Garzón 22 Mar 2023
Hairdressser Flávio Mateus do Santo de Sousa cutting the hair of a customer.

Electricity day and night: Solar power is changing isolated Amazon communities

Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie and Avener Prado 6 Feb 2023

‘They paid for it with misery’: Q&A with Chile dam critic Jose Marihuan Ancanao

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022

Dam construction ignites Indigenous youth movement in southern Chile

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022
Fishmongers in the Ndji village market get by with very little. Image by Yannick Kenné.

“Largest of its kind” dam in Cameroon faces backlash from unimpressed fishmongers

Yannick Kenné 13 Oct 2022
Chiew Larn reservoir, Thailand

Small mammals stranded by hydropower dams die out surprisingly fast: Study

Carolyn Cowan 14 Jul 2022
A power plant under construction in Bangladesh.

Sluggish growth of renewables threatens Bangladesh’s clean-energy goals

Abu Siddique 19 Apr 2022

International funding nowhere near enough for Indonesia to cut emissions: Study

Basten Gokkon 15 Apr 2022

Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await

Claire Asher 15 Mar 2022

As blackouts loom, Indonesia’s energy crisis highlights its addiction to coal

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jan 2022

In the Brazilian Amazon, solar energy brings light — and new opportunities

Ana Ionova 4 Jan 2022
Tiger

Tigers, jaguars under threat from tropical hydropower projects: Study

Carolyn Cowan 9 Dec 2021
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say

Basten Gokkon 28 Oct 2021

Cooking with the sun: Entrepreneurs help launch Mexico’s solar revolution

Sandra Weiss 27 Oct 2021

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