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May 6, 2024
Joe Biden wants the US to be the world leader in electric cars, which requires lithium. But is a mine being built on the site of a massacre?
April 30, 2024
In the last decade, Indonesia has made significant progress in halting the loss of its forests. But the election of military man Prabowo Subianto as president is raising concerns that a boom in mining nickel, used in EV batteries, could lead to a new wave of deforestati...
July 31, 2023
JAKARTA — Major investors continue to sour on a hydropower project being built in an orangutan habitat in Indonesia, with the powerful Norwegian state pension fund the latest to call for cutting ties. On July 6, the fund, the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, with $1.4 trillion in assets, announced its recommendation to […]
May 16, 2023
Climate and environmental organizations gathered at the Japanese embassy to stop the finance Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) expansion.
May 16, 2023
"If President Biden + G7 leaders fail to emerge with a strong climate outcome opposing LNG expansion, they will fail us all," said Rees.
April 14, 2023
JAKARTA — When scientists made the bombshell announcement in 2017 that the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) was a new species, the apes were immediately put under the global spotlight. With fewer than 800 individuals surviving in a tiny tract of forest in the western part of Indonesia, scientists declared the Tapanuli orangutan as the rarest […]
November 21, 2022
JAKARTA — A second tunnel collapse this year at a controversial dam construction site in Indonesia has killed another Chinese worker, bringing the toll from the project to 17 in just two years. The worker, identified as Wan Shui, 35, was severely injured in a tunnel cave-in on Nov. 9 and rushed to hospital, where […]
August 24, 2022
JAKARTA — Indonesian police are investigating possible negligence in the death of a Chinese construction worker at the site of a controversial hydroelectric dam in the only known habitat of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. The victim, identified as 52-year-old Wang Jian, died on the morning of Aug. 21 when the tunnel he was working […]