A new analysis of satellite data by the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) indicates that 1.64 million hectares burned in fires that blazed this year across seven Indonesian provinces. A total […]
There are only about six hundred inhabitants on the remote Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean, but researchers have found a massive amount of plastic debris washed up on the beaches. […]
One million animal and plant species now risk extinction as the health of ecosystems deteriorates at an unprecedented rate, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)¹ warns in a […]
The rapid expansion of the coal seam gas industry in Queensland’s Darling Downs¹ has been accompanied by a dramatic rise in local hospital admissions for circulatory and respiratory conditions, according to report […]
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has voted unanimously to keep the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (TRHS) on the List of World Heritage In Danger. At its 41st session, taking place this week […]
The Queensland Land Court in Australia has recognised the environmental impact that an expansion of the Acland open-cut coal mine would have on the local community and environment and has recommended that […]
Helen Bender is a woman of inordinate courage. Not only is she grieving for her father, who was so driven to distraction by coal seam gas company harassment that he committed suicide, […]
The removal of four mega-dams on the Klamath river in the United States has come a step closer with the announcement of an agreement in principal that won’t need Congressional approval. The […]
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 […]
Ambassadors for the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) have called on the Indonesian government to ban the use of fire to clear land if sustainable practices cannot be implemented. For months, huge […]
Massive forest fires are still blazing in Central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, causing life-threatening levels of pollution, coming dangerously close to the base camp of The Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project, […]
The Indonesian and Singaporean governments are taking action against companies accused of being responsible for forest fires that are still raging on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, causing fatalities and untold […]
Large swathes of the islands of Sumatra and Borneo are still blanketed by choking pollution caused by illegal forest burning. The number of haze-related fatalities is difficult to calculate, but deaths are […]
As a choking haze caused by illegal forest fires continues to blanket whole regions of three countries in Southeast Asia, a state of emergency has been declared in two Indonesian provinces, and […]
Indonesia’s Supreme Court in Jakarta has rejected an appeal brought by palm oil company PT Kallista Alam against a judgment that it illegally burned huge swathes of the environmentally precious Tripa peat […]
A choking haze is again blanketing whole regions in three Southeast Asian countries, causing untold damage to people’s health. The pollution is caused by illegal slash-and-burn fires, mostly on the Indonesian island […]
Forest fires are burning on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and in parts of Indonesian Borneo, causing untold damage to an already fragile environment and wreaking havoc with people’s health. There are […]
John Jenkyn and his family moved from Australia’s Sunshine Coast to the Western Downs for the peace and quiet. Jenkyn’s 22-year-old son, Aaron, has quadriplegic cerebral palsy. He has a weakened immune […]
Deforestation in Indonesia (Photo by Roni Bintang) The number of multinational companies that say they are committed to supplying and using only deforestation-free palm oil is growing fast. More than twenty global […]
Tripa burning in 2012; photo by Carlos Quiles. The director of the Indonesian palm oil company PT Kallista Alam, Subianto Rusyid, has been found guilty of illegally clearing peat forest in Aceh, […]
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