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Sumatra citizen lawsuit seeks accountability for haze-causing fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Sep 2024

As fires ravaged Indonesia in 2023, some positive trends emerged, data show

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2024
Satellite image of wildfires in Quebec, Canada, in June, 2023.

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2024

Indonesian palm oil firm fined for fires sues expert a second time over testimony

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Jan 2024
Army officers try to extinguish fires in peatland areas in Central Kalimantan.

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2024

Burn now, pay later: Fines trickle in from Indonesia’s crackdown on forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2023

As fire season worsens, Indonesian activists report four companies for burning

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2023
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau province.

‘Wasn’t us,’ fire-hit Indonesia claims as Malaysia chokes on poor air quality

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2023

Indonesia’s peatland restoration claims in question as fires flare up

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Oct 2023

El Niño leads to more fires and toxic air pollution in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Sep 2023

Palm oil, pulpwood firms not doing enough to prevent peat fires, analysis shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Aug 2023
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching -- the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon -- in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

New data show 10% increase in primary tropical forest loss in 2022

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2023

Study shows mountain forests being lost at ‘alarming rate,’ especially in Asia

Liz Kimbrough 13 Apr 2023

Indonesian palm oil billionaire gets 15 years for corruption

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Feb 2023

Bolivia has a soy deforestation problem. It’s worse than previously thought.

Maxwell Radwin 21 Feb 2023
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

As dry season looms, Sumatra villagers hope their peat restoration pays off

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Dec 2022

Indonesia’s Supreme Court rules President Widodo not liable in 2015 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Nov 2022

More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2022

Even without human-driven deforestation, climate change threatens some forests

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Sep 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burning throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Forest fires are getting worse, 20 years of data confirm

Liz Kimbrough 17 Aug 2022

In Indonesia’s forest fire capital, the dry season brings yet more burning

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Aug 2022
Fire in Indonesia forest

As dry season starts in Indonesia, risk of fires — and haze — looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jul 2022

Sumatra palm plantations the usual suspects as unusual burning razes peatlands

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022

Indonesia’s new epicenter of forest fires shifts away from Sumatra and Borneo

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Dec 2021

Paper giants’ expansion plans raise fears of greater deforestation in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2021

Indonesian pulpwood firms told to protect peat are doing the opposite: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Aug 2021

A bad fire year predicted in Brazil’s Acre state. What’s to be done?

Liz Kimbrough 17 Aug 2021

Indonesia eyes less severe fire season, but COVID-19 could turn it deadly

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jul 2021

Fire season intensifies in the Brazilian Amazon, feeding off deforestation

Liz Kimbrough 1 Jul 2021
Colorado's East Troublesome Fire, on October 22, 2020, which jumped the Continental Divide and eventually became Colorado's largest fire on record, at nearly 200,000 acres. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.

Rocky Mountains are burning more now than ever, and it could get worse

Liz Kimbrough 14 Jun 2021
Live hotspots in areas with Prodes 2019 and Deter warnings, in Colniza, Mato Grosso state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

The Brazilian Amazon is burning, again

Liz Kimbrough 3 Jun 2021

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