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A trefoil horseshoe bat

Flooding for hydropower dams hits forest-reliant bats hard, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 26 May 2023
Yuliana and Singapue, workers in an oil palm plantation

From palm oil waste to cellulosic ethanol: Indonesia’s opportunity (commentary)

Tenny Kristiana 12 May 2023
Lagae and biofuel.

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

Carly Nairn 9 May 2023
An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis). Image by Martinus Scriblerus via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Apache tribe decry loss of sacred site to massive copper mine at both court and the U.N.

Kate Schimel 27 Apr 2023
Soraida Chindoy, 38, Indigenous leader from the Inga community of the Condagua reservation. She has been part of the movement to stop the mining project from the beginning. Image by Antonio Cascio for Mongabay.

Plan to mine ‘clean energy’ metals in Colombian Amazon splits communities

Natalia Torres Garzón 22 Mar 2023
Hairdressser Flávio Mateus do Santo de Sousa cutting the hair of a customer.

Electricity day and night: Solar power is changing isolated Amazon communities

Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie and Avener Prado 6 Feb 2023

‘They paid for it with misery’: Q&A with Chile dam critic Jose Marihuan Ancanao

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022

Dam construction ignites Indigenous youth movement in southern Chile

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022
Fishmongers in the Ndji village market get by with very little. Image by Yannick Kenné.

“Largest of its kind” dam in Cameroon faces backlash from unimpressed fishmongers

Yannick Kenné 13 Oct 2022
Chiew Larn reservoir, Thailand

Small mammals stranded by hydropower dams die out surprisingly fast: Study

Carolyn Cowan 14 Jul 2022
A power plant under construction in Bangladesh.

Sluggish growth of renewables threatens Bangladesh’s clean-energy goals

Abu Siddique 19 Apr 2022

International funding nowhere near enough for Indonesia to cut emissions: Study

Basten Gokkon 15 Apr 2022

Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await

Claire Asher 15 Mar 2022

As blackouts loom, Indonesia’s energy crisis highlights its addiction to coal

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jan 2022

In the Brazilian Amazon, solar energy brings light — and new opportunities

Ana Ionova 4 Jan 2022
Tiger

Tigers, jaguars under threat from tropical hydropower projects: Study

Carolyn Cowan 9 Dec 2021

Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say

Basten Gokkon 28 Oct 2021

Cooking with the sun: Entrepreneurs help launch Mexico’s solar revolution

Sandra Weiss 27 Oct 2021
In Hebei province, smoke billows from chimneys from the steel plants in 2014. Photo © Lu Guang / Greenpeace

There is no climate solution without China and America, says Li Shuo

Rhett A. Butler 2 Sep 2021

Turning Kenya’s problematic invasive plants into useful bioenergy

Anthony Langat 21 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

Converting biowaste to biogas could power cleaner, sustainable Earth future

Marina Martinez 1 Jul 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 May 2021

ADB declares coal exit in Asia Pacific, but gas remains in play

Imelda Abano 11 May 2021

Indonesia’s net-zero emissions goal not ambitious enough, activists say

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Apr 2021
Photo credit: Sacred Earth Solar

Melina Laboucan-Massimo: Catalyzing an Indigenous-led just energy transition

Rhett A. Butler 22 Mar 2021

French Guiana soy biofuel power plants risk massive Amazon deforestation

Justin Catanoso 2 Dec 2020
The ROV SuBastain with careful guidance by its pilots uses the manipulator arm to collect a geological sample at 500m on Flinders Reef. Photo credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

Philanthropist Wendy Schmidt: ‘Solutions are always local’

Rhett A. Butler 29 Oct 2020
Satellite image of a portion of Everglades National Park in Florida. Courtesy of Zoom.Earth

Data drives Bloomberg’s support for climate solutions, says Antha N. Williams

Rhett A. Butler 20 Oct 2020

Analysis: Vietnam’s leadership flex shows how to drive electricity reform

David Brown 6 Aug 2020

Burning down the house? Enviva’s giant U.S. wood pellet plants gear up

Saul Elbein 29 Jul 2020

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