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COP26 cop-out? Indonesia’s clean energy pledge keeps coal front and center

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Nov 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

Indonesia still clinging to coal despite phaseout pledge, new plan shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Sep 2021

Indonesia’s coal phaseout is just more business as usual, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Aug 2021

Coal phase-out plan gets pushback in power-hungry Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jun 2021

Indonesia to retire coal-fired power plants while also adding more

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jun 2021

Study shows it took the Amazon as we know it over 6 million years to form

Claire Asher 7 Jun 2021

Indonesia says no new coal plants from 2023 (after the next 100 or so)

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 May 2021
Recreation of a wooly rhino made from a preserved baby wooly rhino discovered in Siberia. Photo credit: Albert Protopopov

Why did the woolly rhino go extinct?

Carolina Cuellar Colmenares 30 Nov 2020

Grasslands claim their ground in Madagascar

Edward Carver 9 Jun 2020

A ‘crazy beast’ that coexisted with dinosaurs discovered from Madagascar

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2020

Japan builds coal plants abroad that wouldn’t be allowed at home: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2019

Newly described giant extinct penguin and parrot once lived in New Zealand

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2019

‘Extremely rare’ fossil tooth of hamster-sized monkey found in Peru

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2019

Volunteers find bones of new species of extinct heron at Florida fossil site

Mongabay.com 20 May 2019

New ancient, giant carnivore described from bones in museum drawer

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2019
A life restoration of Hadropithecus stenognathus, an extinct species of lemur, based on fossil evidence. H. stenognathus is thought to have weighed between 27 and 35 kilograms (60 and 77 pounds), more than three times the size of the largest living species of lemur, the indri (Indri indri). Image by Smokeybjb via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Human population boom led to Madagascar’s megafauna extinction: Study

Malavika Vyawahare 4 Apr 2019

For Indonesian presidential hopefuls, burning coal is business as usual

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Feb 2019
Size comparison between the eggs of an elephant bird, ostrich, and chicken. Courtesy of the museum at Berenty.

Humans reached Madagascar 6,000 years earlier than previously thought

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2018

A Brazilian mourns what was lost in the National Museum fire

Peter Moon 6 Sep 2018

Land plants may have evolved much earlier than we thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Feb 2018

Fossil discovery in Indonesia reveals ‘lost world’ of beasts

Basten Gokkon 19 Sep 2017

Ongoing mass extinction causing ‘biological annihilation,’ new study says

John Cannon 11 Jul 2017

New species of extinct, kitten-sized marsupial lion named after David Attenborough

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Aug 2016

New species of extinct dolphin discovered in museum collection

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2016

Humans torched Madagascar’s forests 1,000 years ago, driving mass extinction

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2016

Ongoing overkill: loss of big herbivores leading to ’empty landscapes’

Jeremy Hance 1 May 2015

Meet Biomuseo: the world’s first biodiversity museum

Alexander Montoro 12 Mar 2015

Bison-sized rodent may have used teeth like elephant tusks

Jeremy Hance 23 Feb 2015

It only took 2,500 people to kill off the world’s biggest birds

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2014

A garden or a wilderness? One-fifth of the Amazon may have been savannah before the arrival of Europeans

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

Scientists discover giant sperm fossilized in bat feces (PHOTOS)

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 May 2014

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