Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, according to a major new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean […]
A new policy brief published today (Thursday) by Wetlands International and Tropenbos International rejects claims that the drainage of peatlands for plantations can be sustainable. In the new report, the two organisations call […]
A new report published by the non-governmental organisation Wetlands International states that almost all of the recent fire hotspots on Sumatra’s environmentally precious Kampar Peninsula started on oil palm and pulp wood […]
A coalition of more than three hundred civil society organisations from 53 countries has launched a manifesto calling on government leaders and financiers at the Paris climate talks to keep large hydropower […]
The planned mega-dams in the state of Sarawak on Malaysian Borneo would not only flood huge areas of rainforest and displace tens of thousands of indigenous people, they would cause the loss […]
Delegates from indigenous communities around the world, who gathered in northern Borneo to mark the two-year anniversary of the blockades against the proposed Baram mega-dam in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, have […]
Vast areas of Southeast Asia will be frequently and irreversibly flooded before the end of the century if action is not taken to stop the destruction of tropical peatlands, a new study […]
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