Peatlands News

RSS
747 stories

Indonesian healthcare in focus as haze worsens; NASA data show Papua ablaze

Mongabay Haze Beat 16 Oct 2015

Carbon emissions from Indonesia’s peat fires exceed emissions from entire U.S. economy

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Oct 2015

Aircraft fight Sumatran fires as Indonesian minister looks to counter no-deforestation pledges

Mongabay Haze Beat 15 Oct 2015

Indonesia hints at possible peatland license review as haze firefight continues

Mongabay Haze Beat 14 Oct 2015

Plantation companies challenged by haze-causing fires in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2015

Jokowi enforcer roasts APP supplier while Kalimantan orangutan charity reels from fires

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Oct 2015

‘Blue Sky Revolution’ in Pekanbaru as haze protesters demand brighter days ahead

Mongabay Haze Beat 12 Oct 2015

Haze compensation details unclear as help arrives in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 9 Oct 2015

Haze cancels Jokowi haze visit as greater cooperation looms

Mongabay Haze Beat 8 Oct 2015

Greenpeace releases dramatic drone video of Indonesia’s fires

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2015

Singapore request for haze information tricky for Indonesia

Mongabay Haze Beat 7 Oct 2015

Indonesia says doing all it can as neighbors ready new haze measures

Mongabay Haze Beat 6 Oct 2015

Malaysia PM turns up heat on Indonesia as Australian firm faces fires probe

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Oct 2015

‘Maybe that’s why there’s so many fires’: Was a peat swamp illegitimately stripped of protected status in Indonesia?

Jay Fajar, Sapariah Saturi 2 Oct 2015

Singapore takes legal action against 5 Indonesian companies over haze

1 Oct 2015

NASA photo reveals Asia’s choking haze

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2015

As haze chokes Sumatra, farmers ask Jokowi for greater land rights

Sapariah Saturi, Taufik Wijaya 28 Sep 2015

In haze-choked Palangkaraya, air quality five times ‘hazardous’ levels

Jenito, Sapariah Saturi 25 Sep 2015

Rogue oil palm company must pay $26m, rules Indonesia’s Supreme Court

Chik Rini, Indra Nugraha 14 Sep 2015
Natural forest and acacia plantation in Riau. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

APP to clear plantations to restore peatlands

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2015

Palm oil a mixed blessing in Indonesia’s peat peninsula

Zamzami 4 Aug 2015

Nine months in, how has Jokowi fared on the environment?

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2015

Peatland emissions from oil palm conversion highly understated: report

Mike Gaworecki 16 Jul 2015

Minister flies over Kalimantan as forest fires surge in Indonesia

Aseanty Pahlevi 15 Jul 2015

Bunge: if you clear peatlands, we won’t buy your palm oil

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jun 2015

Controversy emerges over alleged deforestation policy breach by APRIL supplier

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jun 2015

Bunge palm oil supplier plans to clear peatlands for plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2015

Rising seas, sinking peat to swamp Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil

Erik Meijaard 13 Jun 2015

Pulp giant APRIL updates sustainability policy with Greenpeace’s tentative approval

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2015

Jokowi must strengthen Indonesia’s forest moratorium, not just extend it: activists

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2015

Who’s to blame for forest loss in Borneo timber concession?

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Apr 2015

Restoration of artificial swamps could be a key to restoring rainforest health in Sumatra

Taryn Farber 6 Apr 2015

you're currently offline