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12 October 2020

Peat burns in the Tumbang Nusa research forest outside Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan in Indonesia

Policy & Finance

Will a new Indonesian law make it harder to punish firms for haze-causing fire?

Nicole Han, 350.org, Asia Pacific communications manager

Carbon & Climate

Nicole Han moves from Vital Strategies to climate action group 350.org to lead Asia Pacific communications

9 October 2020

Punjab power plant

Policy & Finance

Indigenous residents protest huge coal mine plan in India

8 October 2020

snakes and pangolins infused in wine

Policy & Finance

Vietnam conservation regulations improving, but enforcement remains a problem

7 October 2020

The family of Chai Bunthonglek, a farmer who was killed in 2015 in a community farm in Klong Sai Pattana Thailand

Policy & Finance

Thai farmers brave bullets, prison for community land titles

Farmer working on a rice field in Bali, Indonesia.

Food & Agriculture

Indonesia’s food estate programme to expand new plantations in forest frontiers

6 October 2020

solar panels at Centragrid power plant in Nyabira, Zimbabwe

Policy & Finance

Political 'retreat' on climate action harms all nations, says UN climate chief

2 October 2020

Baghjan gas leak in Assam, India

Water

Victims of Assam gas explosion fear mounting health costs

cambridge zero carbon society

Carbon & Climate

Cambridge University to divest from fossil fuels, as momentum to decarbonise grows among world's top colleges

1 October 2020

Vegetables and fruits, including manioc and sweet potatoes, are displayed in a grocery store

Food & Agriculture

Silver lining in the health crisis? Less food waste

30 September 2020

Red-shanked douc langurs Vietnam

Carbon & Climate

Vietnam establishes new nature reserve, possible home to elusive ‘Asian unicorn’

Fishermen in Rembang, Indonesia

Food & Agriculture

Indonesia’s new intelligence hub drawing on data in the war on illegal fishing

Boon Rueang Wetland Forest Conservation Group Thailand

Cities

With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest

29 September 2020

stingless bee pic

Carbon & Climate

How much will it cost to save nature?

palm oil fruit bunch at a factory in Tanjung Karang, Malaysia

Corporate Responsibility

Can global brands avoid 'greenwash' with new forest-saving plan?

28 September 2020

Mekong River Laos

Policy & Finance

Thailand under pressure to act against the Sanakham dam project

Philippine cockatoo

Energy

Philippine community goes to court to stop coal plant in biodiversity haven

25 September 2020

duterte unga sept 23 2020

Policy & Finance

Duterte tells UN: Fight climate change with the same urgency as Covid-19

Coal being transported on the Yangtze River in China

Policy & Finance

China’s new carbon neutrality pledge: What next?

21 September 2020

Man carrying bundle of rice in Quezon, Philippines

Policy & Finance

In pandemic spotlight, public banks ponder a greener role

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