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Activists fear supercharged ‘business as usual’ under Indonesia’s new president
When Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto called on U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House earlier this week, the two ...
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Borneo’s ‘omen birds’ find a staunch guardian in Indigenous Dayak Iban elders
Deep in the rainforests of Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, the piercing calls of birds reverberate to the rhythm of the ...
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As global fire risk rises, modern homes become toxic plastic traps
Rob Wilson stood on his home’s back deck in Flagstaff, in the U.S. state of Arizona, as the wildfire approached. All was ...
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Thousands of birds seized in massive Indonesian bird-trafficking bust
Authorities in Indonesia have rescued more than 6,500 wild birds being trafficked from the island of Sumatra and destined for ...
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The calm before the storm: The first half of the 20th century in the Pan Amazon
The period between the end of the rubber boom and the onset of the colonisation frenzy that began in the 1960s was a time of ...
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I’m boycotting COP29 because local Indigenous action matters more (commentary)
The first United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that I worked on was in 2009. I didn’t actually go ...
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Mapping ‘gloop and mud’ sheds light on seabed carbon storage
Among marine ecosystems, the capacity of mangroves, seagrass meadows and kelp forests to store carbon is well documented, but ...
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Shipping emissions reduction sheds light on marine cloud geoengineering
For many years, the North Atlantic Ocean warmed more slowly than other parts of the world. In 2023, that changed — ...
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From landfill to limelight, Ghana waste entrepreneurs win Earthshot Prize
When Desmond Alugnoa and Jacob Attakpah stepped onto a celebrity-studded green carpet at the Earthshot Prize awards in Cape ...
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African Development Bank chief calls for ‘green-rich’ continent to also be ‘cash-rich’
A top African policymaker at COP29, the ongoing global climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan has called for a better evaluation ...
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‘Five years and no justice’ as trial over Indigenous forest guardian’s killing faces delays
Nov. 1 marked the five-year anniversary of the killing of Indigenous forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara and the ...
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Using regenerative agriculture to heal the land and help communities: Q&A with Kaleka founder Silvia Irawan
In Seruyan, a regency in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province, independent smallholders are trialing regenerative ...