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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
protests Mexico

Sheinbaum’s energy agenda under fire as Mexican activists slam LNG megaproject

Joshua Collins and Daniela Díaz 15 Apr 2025

Certified ethanol produced in Brazil for global airlines linked to slave labor

Poliana Dallabrida from Repórter Brasil 5 Dec 2024
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

Study: REDD+ doesn’t work without Indigenous peoples, but fails to engage them

Sarah Brown 24 Oct 2024
Trees cut down for biomass.

Biomass power grows in Japan despite new understanding of climate risks

Annelise Giseburt 29 Jul 2024
A farmer applies biochar in the field.

Biochar could play big role in Bhutan’s carbon storage — but it’s news to farmers

Choki Wangmo 24 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

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Dec 2023
A farmer in a rice paddy field.

Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields

Claire Turrell 11 Aug 2023
Lagae and biofuel.

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

Carly Nairn 9 May 2023
Gas-fueled power plant in Riau, Indonesia. Image courtesy of PLN.

Indonesia aims to use gas in foreign-funded energy transition; critics cry foul

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Mar 2023
Smoke from a factory chimney.

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

Ian Morse 4 Nov 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

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
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
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

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

John Cannon 5 Apr 2022

Traditional knowledge guides protection of planetary health in Finland

Jane Palmer 31 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

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

Conrad Fox 3 Mar 2022

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

Victoria Schneider 10 Dec 2021

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

Justin Catanoso 12 Nov 2021

COP26: As carbon emissions rise unabated, scientists eye a methane removal fix

Justin Catanoso 8 Nov 2021

2°C warming limit? More like 3°C and hotter, leading climate scientists say

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2021

Plastics set to overtake coal plants on U.S. carbon emissions, new study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Oct 2021

Old and new solutions pave way to net-zero emissions farming, studies show

Claire Asher 30 Jul 2021

Seafloor microbes hoover up methane, keeping global warming in check

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jul 2021

Playing the long game: ExxonMobil gambles on algae biofuel

Carly Nairn 6 Jul 2021

Biofuel in Mexico: Uphill battle against bureaucracy, organized crime

Sandra Weiss 2 Jul 2021

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