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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.
'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 Today, they can claim a rare victory as timber giant Samling has withdrawn from logging native forests in the Baram area.
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Food & Agriculture

Plantations are not forests

Sarawak's so-called green revolution is little more than a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Companies and the state government are operating in ways that not only devastate the environment but also marginalise remote Indigenous communities.

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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

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Policy & Finance

Rich countries must compensate the Global South for biodiversity loss

21 December 2023

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Policy & Finance

How technology can help save Indigenous forests – and our planet

25 June 2021

borneo project field technicians

Policy & Finance

Sarawak communities gather data to challenge claims made by logging company

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

4 November 2020

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Carbon & Climate

Fighting climate change with bamboo

30 June 2020

Octogenarians matriarchs in Long Tungan.

Policy & Finance

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

14 April 2020

The Borneo Project

Policy & Finance

Isolating the resistance: How coronavirus leaves indigenous rights in Borneo at risk

21 January 2020

WAHLI protest

Food & Agriculture

A boycott is not the answer to palm oil’s environmental problems

21 October 2019

gabon rainforest

Policy & Finance

Climate leadership from developing countries

15 October 2019

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Policy & Finance

Building ‘blocks’ to fight the haze

12 September 2018

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Carbon & Climate

6 ways to remove carbon pollution from the sky

27 August 2018

Local villagers float past a pile of illegally logged trees in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Carbon & Climate

Logging is claiming the last of Indonesia's forests

17 August 2018

A forest fire in Kalimantan

Food & Agriculture

A new normal in the battle against fire and haze

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