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A U.S. dairy farm. Global methane emissions have increased rapidly over the past five years.

Atmospheric methane removal: A promising but challenging climate solution

Sean Mowbray 6 Nov 2024
Greater Greener Gloster community members stand in front of the state capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, as they demand the cleanup of the Drax pellet mill

New survey puts human face on pollution caused by U.S. wood pellet mills

Justin Catanoso 24 Oct 2024
A deforestated site in Edenton, North Carolina.

Delay of EU Deforestation Regulation may ‘be excuse to gut law,’ activists fear

Justin Catanoso 17 Oct 2024

As 25 Earth vital signs worsen, scientists warn of ‘irreversible climate disaster’

Sean Mowbray 15 Oct 2024
A steel production site in China.

Aluminum and steel vital to energy transition, but need circular solutions

Sean Mowbray 18 Sep 2024

The future of extractive industries in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Sep 2024
The sea and the coastal residential land are affected by the waste of upstream nickel mining operations.

At-risk groups in Indonesia demand greater say in climate policymaking

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Aug 2024
Fire in an area newly deforested in Brazil.

Forest degradation releases 5 times more Amazon carbon than deforestation: Study

Justin Catanoso 9 Aug 2024
Trees cut down for biomass.

Biomass power grows in Japan despite new understanding of climate risks

Annelise Giseburt 29 Jul 2024

Conservationists look for new ways to fight oil pipelines in southern Mexico

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jul 2024
The Padarincang community rejecting the geothermal project. They are worried that it will have a negative impact on their lives in the future.

Java farmers vow to live under own steam as geothermal project falters

Irfan Maulana 12 Jul 2024
Ecosystem destruction on Borneo peatlands.

Better accounting of peat and mangrove carbon to help Indonesia’s climate policies

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jun 2024

Water is key as study shows restoration of drained tropical peat is possible

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jun 2024

Pressure grows on banks to end business with Indonesian coal giant Adaro

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 May 2024
The James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green credentials of electric vehicles come under fire

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 23 May 2024

UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants

Justin Catanoso 6 May 2024

Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2024
Workers loading cement.

Circular solutions vital to curb enviro harm from cement and concrete

Sean Mowbray 18 Apr 2024

As fires ravaged Indonesia in 2023, some positive trends emerged, data show

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2024
A road in Kolkata.

Delhi gets the attention — but Kolkata’s air pollution is just as dangerous

Niladry Sarkar 4 Apr 2024
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Enviva bankruptcy fallout ripples through biomass industry, U.S. and EU

Justin Catanoso 2 Apr 2024
A man on an e-bike.

E-bikes could cut smog, energy use and congestion globally — but will they?

Charles Pekow 1 Apr 2024
A car charging.

This year’s ranking of EV carmakers from most to least ‘clean’: Report

Ian Morse 28 Mar 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Report links pulpwood estate clearing Bornean orangutan habitat to RGE Group

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2024
The LNG carrier Shahamah in Uraga Channel, Japan.

U.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts say

Shanna Hanbury 27 Feb 2024

Megafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay

Sibélia Zanon and Luis Patriani 22 Feb 2024
Deforestation for oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2016. Photo courtesy of Linus.

Palm oil deforestation makes comeback in Indonesia after decade-long slump

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024
People holding wood pellets.

Study: Burning wood pellets for energy endangers local communities’ health

Justin Catanoso 18 Jan 2024

Indonesian palm oil firm fined for fires sues expert a second time over testimony

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Jan 2024
Army officers try to extinguish fires in peatland areas in Central Kalimantan.

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2024

Reversing progress, Indonesia pulp & paper drives up deforestation rates again

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2024

Company sells Indigenous land in Amazonas as NFTs without community’s knowledge

Fábio Bispo 26 Dec 2023

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