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Attendees from Brazil pose during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 5, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Image by COP28 / Mahmoud Khaled via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed).

Little achieved for Indigenous groups at U.N. climate summit, delegates say

Dimitri Selibas 19 Dec 2023
Rendering of an oil derrick in the rainforest. AI-generated.

Brazil’s “End-of-the-World” auction for oil and gas drilling (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 16 Dec 2023
The Cape Orange National Park off the coast of Amapá state in the extreme northeast of Brazil.

Mega oil and gas auction in the Brazilian Amazon may threaten Indigenous lands

Aimee Gabay 15 Dec 2023

Science panel presents COP28 with blueprint for saving the Amazon

Dimitri Selibas 13 Dec 2023
Journalists and activists in May, 2017, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Fifth from left in the front is activist Hoang Thi Minh Hong.

NGOs at COP28 demand Vietnam free climate advocates before it gets energy funding

Alec Luhn 8 Dec 2023
Mt Guiting-Guiting range, seen from Magdiwang.

Nickel mine threatens Philippines biodiversity hotspot on Sibuyan Island (analysis)

Jake Willis 6 Dec 2023

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Dec 2023
Aerial view showing a massive ring of thousands of whole trees at Enviva’s Sampson County, North Carolina

Enviva, the world’s largest biomass energy company, is near collapse

Justin Catanoso 20 Nov 2023

Glencore’s coal expansion plans face shareholder and Indigenous opposition

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Nov 2023
Fossils fuels are emblematic of a “take-make-waste” economic model that is pushing humanity beyond safe limits, experts say.

Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say

Sean Mowbray 16 Nov 2023
Maman Ajo makes a living selling boats.

Java farmers displaced by dam remain treading water after decades

Donny Iqbal 8 Nov 2023

Expansion of Ecuador mine risks ‘imminent’ collapse of waste dam, experts warn

Dan Collyns 6 Nov 2023
Digital screens in New York's Times Square.

The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 2 Nov 2023
Adélard Makonga at the Gécamines mining site.

Mine in ‘world cobalt capital’ displaces locals and monks under questionable circumstances

Didier Makal, Eric Cibamba 23 Oct 2023
Rainbow over rainforest in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia opens carbon trading market to both skepticism and hope

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Oct 2023
Coal mining

World Bank still backs coal in Asia, despite climate claims, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 5 Oct 2023

Rechargeable battery industry needs better mining regulations, report says

Maxwell Radwin 29 Sep 2023

Delay of Indonesia’s energy transition plan a chance to get public input

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Sep 2023
Aerial view of a road.

Study: Tricky balancing act between EV scale-up and mining battery metals

Liz Kimbrough 8 Sep 2023

Pacific alliance adopts moratorium on deep-sea mining, halting resurgent PNG project

John Cannon 6 Sep 2023
Coal protest in Indonesia

Indonesian voters want a clean energy plan, but candidates haven’t delivered

Basten Gokkon 6 Sep 2023

In Panama, an Indigenous kingdom fights for its right to the forest

Maxwell Radwin 4 Sep 2023

Captive coal-fired power plants hinder Indonesia energy transition deal

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Aug 2023

Activists slam coal pollution from Indonesia’s production of ‘clean’ batteries

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Aug 2023

For Caatinga’s last jaguars and pumas, wind farms are the newest threat

Suzana Camargo 22 Aug 2023

Offshore drilling faces backlash in Argentina after skirting environmental regulations

Maxwell Radwin 17 Aug 2023

Jakarta snags ‘most polluted’ title as air quality plunges and officials dither

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Aug 2023

Have coal, will use it: Indonesia’s climate stance raises questions

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Aug 2023

Fair winds or fowl: Clean energy clashes with conservation in Brazil’s Caatinga

Suzana Camargo 14 Aug 2023

Captive to coal: Indonesia to burn even more fossil fuel for green tech

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Aug 2023
Aerial view of the mine and stockyard of Vale's S11D Complex in Pará State. Image by Ricardo Teles for Agência Vale.

Can Lula balance the transition to renewable energy with Amazon mining expansion? (commentary)

Gabriela Sarmet and Christian Poirier 2 Aug 2023

World’s top sovereign fund latest to cut ties with dam in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jul 2023

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