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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
Intact rainforest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Study: Indonesia’s forest-clearing moratorium underdelivered — but so did donors

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2022

Tropical deforestation emitting far more carbon than previously thought: Study

John Cannon 15 Mar 2022

Activists vow to take EU to court to fight its forest biomass policies

Justin Catanoso 14 Mar 2022

Aerosol pollution: Destabilizing Earth’s climate and a threat to health

Conrad Fox 3 Mar 2022

A more potent CO2 sink than the Amazon, Brazil’s mangroves remain overlooked

Suzana Camargo 3 Mar 2022

Climate change a threat to human well-being and health of the planet: New IPCC report

John Cannon 28 Feb 2022

Malaysian officials dampen prospects for giant, secret carbon deal in Sabah

John Cannon 10 Feb 2022

At a plantation in Central Africa, Big Oil tries to go net-zero

Ashoka Mukpo 20 Jan 2022

In Africa, temperatures rise, but adaptation lags on West’s funding failure

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2022

Oil production or carbon neutrality? Why not both, Guyana says

Carinya Sharples 12 Jan 2022

Indonesia’s clean energy transition must start with clean rivers (commentary)

Warief Djajanto Basorie 11 Jan 2022
Oil barrel Amazon

California is the world’s number one importer of Amazonian oil, report finds

Victoria Schneider 23 Dec 2021

Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal

John Cannon 17 Dec 2021
A reindeer strolls through a bog in northern Sweden. Image by Alexandre Buisse via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

‘Cooling the climate for 10,000 years’: How saving wetlands can help save the world

Mark Hillsdon 14 Dec 2021

Mongabay Explains: Do carbon offset markets really work?

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2021
Amadiba Crisis Committee Protest at Mzamba Beach. Image courtesy of the Amadiba Crisis Committee.

Indigenous communities in South Africa sue, protest off-shore oil and gas exploration

Victoria Schneider 10 Dec 2021

Major clothing brands contribute to deforestation in Cambodia, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Dec 2021

Indonesia’s new plan for coal: It pollutes land and air, so why not the sea too?

Basten Gokkon 1 Dec 2021

‘Standing with your feet in the water’: COP26 struggles to succeed

Justin Catanoso 12 Nov 2021

New study helps cattle ranchers monitor ecological impact on U.S. rangelands

Maxwell Radwin 12 Nov 2021

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