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Smoke from a factory chimney.

Carbon offsets: A key tool for climate action, or a license to emit?

Ian Morse 4 Nov 2022
Rainbow over Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

In new climate deal, Norway will pay Indonesia $56 million for drop in deforestation, emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2022
The successful use of microorganisms in the production of soybeans is driving R&D for the development of bioproducts focused on different crops. Image by Bruno Kelly/Greenpeace.

Biofertilizers cut costs and GHG emissions for Brazilian soybean producers

Juliana Ennes 26 Oct 2022

Early retirement for Indonesian coal plants could cut CO2, boost jobs, analysis says

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2022
A rice farmer harvesting in rice fields.

Thailand bets on coal despite long losing streak for communities

Kannikar Petchkaew 13 Oct 2022
The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesian banks prop up coal industry increasingly shunned by outside lenders

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2022
An iceberg floats in Disko Bay, near Ilulissat, Greenland, on July 24, 2015. The massive Greenland ice sheet is shedding about 300 gigatons of ice a year into the ocean, making it the single largest source of sea level rise from melting ice. Image by NASA/Saskia Madlener via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Greenland’s Indigenous population favors extracting sand from melting ice sheet

Moira Donovan 27 Sep 2022

2022: Another consequential year for the melting Arctic

Sharon Guynup 23 Sep 2022
Fire in Indonesia forest

Pandemic dip was just a blip as global emissions rebound, report shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Sep 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Emissions and deforestation set to spike under Indonesia’s biomass transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Sep 2022

EU votes to keep woody biomass as renewable energy, ignores climate risk

Justin Catanoso 16 Sep 2022
Torrance Coste stands on a stump

British Columbia delays promised protections as old growth keeps falling

Justin Catanoso 14 Sep 2022
A hogfish in the coral reefs

Acid test: Are the world’s oceans becoming too ‘acidic’ to support life?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Sep 2022
Mangrove forest on Nosy Lonjo, Antsiranana, Madagascar. Image by Kenguinaud via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The Western Indian Ocean lost 4% of its mangroves in 24 years, report finds

Mark Hillsdon 7 Sep 2022
A truck carrying acacia logs in Indonesia

Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia

Annelise Giseburt 29 Aug 2022
Drought in India.

What’s the chance of meeting Paris climate goal? Just 0.1%, study says

Mongabay.com 29 Aug 2022
A manta ray with diver.

Study paints ‘bleak picture’ for nearly all marine life without emissions cuts

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Aug 2022
A community member carries mangrove seedlings to be planted. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.

Niger Delta mangroves in ‘grave danger’ from oil spills, poverty, invasive species

Orji Sunday 22 Aug 2022
A coal mine in Borneo.

Building Indonesia’s ‘green’ new capital could see coal use surge (analysis)

Chun Sheng Goh 2 Aug 2022

End old-growth logging in carbon-rich ‘crown jewel’ of U.S. forests: Study

John Cannon 8 Jun 2022

Indigenous community mounts legal challenge to Thai coal mine development

Carolyn Cowan 27 May 2022

Meet the 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 25 May 2022
Wood chips for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway. Image by Statkraft via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?

Annelise Giseburt 19 May 2022

EU Parliament’s Environment Committee urges scale back of biomass burning

Justin Catanoso 18 May 2022
Timber for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway

Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia

Justin Catanoso 11 May 2022

To stop plastic pollution, we must stop plastic production, scientists say

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2022

How much does air travel warm the planet? New study gives a figure

Liz Kimbrough 6 Apr 2022

IPCC report calls for ‘immediate and deep’ carbon cuts to slow climate change

John Cannon 5 Apr 2022

Indonesian bill turns coal-derived fuels clean by ignoring true scale of emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Mar 2022
A truck with Oilpalm fruits is entering Fajar Harapan Palm Oil Mill.

EU response to palm oil is opportunity, not threat (commentary)

Andre Barahamin 29 Mar 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

‘Giving up’: Amazon is losing its resilience under human pressure, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2022

Multiyear ice thinner than thought as Arctic sea ice reaches winter max: Studies

Alec Luhn 22 Mar 2022

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