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Indonesian civil society groups are challenging a controversial law they say enables forced evictions, weakens environmental ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the ...

Indonesia’s marine ministry has approved one of Java’s largest coal plants to use vast amounts of seawater for cooling, ...

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I was making a joke and in my head I said, ‘I smell a threadsnake,'” Justin Springer, Caribbean program officer for the NGO ...

The energy landscape is a shifting terrain, full of twists and turns, according to statistics in the latest report by the ...

Before pivoting her focus to the Arctic, Alysa McCall worked extensively in the grassland ecosystem. There, the interventions ...