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Cities

Aceh’s bitter lesson, relearned

In 2004, Aceh was hardest hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2025, Indonesia’s most disaster-aware province was among the worst hit by floods. The failure was not forecasting, but what happened – or didn’t – after the alarms were raised.
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Policy & Finance

Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals

Major activists from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Chad and Indonesia demand a larger role at the UN summit in Belém, Brazil.
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Policy & Finance

Environmental crime worth billions is climate fight’s blind spot

Despite generating billions of dollars in illegal revenue a year, environmental crime in the Amazon still isn't a priority at UN climate summits.
'Stop the chop': Demonstrators rally against deforestation in Sarawak, Malaysia

Carbon & Climate

How Indigenous communities in Malaysia stopped the chop

For years, Indigenous communities in Sarawak fought against logging on their lands. Today, they can claim a rare victory as timber giant Samling has withdrawn from logging native forests in the Baram area.

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21 November 2024

Samling deforestation

Food & Agriculture

Plantations are not forests

29 April 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Climate change poses dire health and human rights risks

12 April 2024

logging in borneo

Carbon & Climate

'Ghost roads' are cracking open pristine rainforests in Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

5 April 2024

Kuamut forest reserve sabah

Carbon & Climate

Malaysia's carbon credit conundrum: State governments hold key to unlocking its potential

29 January 2024

Turtle_Biodiversity

Policy & Finance

Rich countries must compensate the Global South for biodiversity loss

21 December 2023

Rubber_Tree_Indonesia

Policy & Finance

How technology can help save Indigenous forests – and our planet

6 March 2023

Members of Indonesia's Conservation Response Unit working alongside endangered elephants in the Genung Leuser National Park

Carbon & Climate

Conservation law takes a step forward in Indonesia

25 June 2021

borneo project field technicians

Policy & Finance

Sarawak communities gather data to challenge claims made by logging company

2 June 2021

Long Tungan flooding

Policy & Finance

Indigenous communities threatened with legal action by timber giant as flooding devastates Sarawak

23 February 2021

Forests cleared along Oregon’s Coast Range in the US

Carbon & Climate

Keeping trees in the ground where they are already growing is an effective low-tech way to slow climate change

19 January 2021

Sual 1 coal plant Pangasinan, Philippines

Policy & Finance

What the Philippines needs to do in 2021 to deliver its climate pledges

17 November 2020

ASRI medical center in Indonesia

Policy & Finance

Accessible healthcare could be key to protecting rainforests and solving the climate crisis

30 June 2020

Octogenarians matriarchs in Long Tungan.

Policy & Finance

Indigenous lives matter: Reflections from an encounter with Borneo's forest defenders

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