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13/5/2013
Bill Oddie, the naturalist and BBC television presenter, has made a provocative
protest film intended to embarrass the global bank HSBC over its links to logging companies blamed for the destruction of the rainforest in Malaysia.
The ...
27/2/2013
Most villages along the Baram River in Malaysia cannot count on round-the-clock electricity. Diesel generators hum at night near longhouses in the northwestern corner of the island of Borneo. Mobile and Internet coverage are almost ...
9/2/2013
A Malaysian state minister Friday said the government would not push ahead with building a dozen new dams on Borneo island, acknowledging they have caused outrage from local tribes and environmentalists.
The proposals sparked fears that ...
7/2/2013
Investing in companies that flout local community rights in developing countries often leads to severe economic losses, according to a new report from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI). A rising trend in "land grabbing" from Africa to ...
24/1/2013
In 2008, environmental author Bill McKibben and a group of seven young activists scraped together $30,000, built a climate-awareness website called 350.org, and took to then still-novel social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr to ...
15/11/2012
From above, the forests of Cameroon seem to sweep across the land in an unending carpet of green. The forested swath is the second-largest in Africa, with tens of thousands of people at its fringes and nestled in its lush depths, dependent on ...
6/11/2012
The controversial Murum dam in Malaysia is the first big overseas project for the China Three Gorges Project Company (CTGC) which is building hydro- and coal-fired power stations in 23 countries. So how it resolves its current conflict with the ...
16/4/2012
Locals
protesting the destruction of their forest in Papua New Guinea for two
palm oil plantations say police have been sent in for a second time to crack-down on their activities, even as a Commission of Inquiry (COI) investigates the legality ...
3/1/2012
On Nov. 19, 2008, an orangutan with a tranquilizer dart in his side is made to sleep before rangers relocate him to another place on Borneo island, away from this
palm oil plantation. (Photo: AFP, Getty Images)
If there were any doubts ...
11/11/2011
In a remote corner of Sierra Leone, signs of a bonanza are evident. New corrugated zinc roofs have replaced simple thatch on houses, motorbikes ply the streets and market stalls are well-stocked.
The new wealth of the villagers in ...
27/8/2011
At 0700 hours, June 17, 100 Miles off the coast of Greenland, a black inflatable speedboat splashed into the icy water off the bow of a large, repurposed Russian fireboat. Kumi Naidoo, the charismatic leader of Greenpeace International, climbed ...
25/7/2011
Officials in Papua and Riau want to prevent deforestation, but they need concrete action and resources from the national government, not just talk and instructionsTalking through carbon markets in Papua
In the new decentralised ...
28/6/2011
Whatever you think of Greenpeace's politics you have to admit they are peerless masters of the publicity stunt.
Over the past few years, the environmental group has developed a knack for pulling off the kind of multi-platform, ...
9/6/2011
Mattel to investigate suppliers for links to rain forest destruction
Mattel Inc., the world's biggest toy company, said it would direct its suppliers to stop buying wood pulp from Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), an Indonesian-Chinese company ...
8/6/2011
The US maker of the most popular doll ever created, Barbie, has been accused of contributing to the destruction of Indonesian forests and habitats of endangered species by the environmental watchdog organization outfit, Greenpeace, reports the ...
7/6/2011
Greenpeace stages
protest at Mattel office over Barbie packaging
Greenpeace accuses Mattel of using paper from Indonesian rain forests to package Barbie dolls. Activists hang a large banner on Mattel's headquarters in El Segundo. Police ...
17/3/2011
As usual, ordinary Germans were to blame. Everything had been prepared for the green revolution: fresh supplies and new signs at the gas stations, and the refinery depots were full to the brim with the new wonderfuel. But then drivers turned ...
25/2/2011
Mackenzie mill suitor blamed for rainforest destruction
Greenpeace accuses Singapore-based Sinar Mas of logging practices that are killing endangered orangutans in Sumatra
The Asian forest company that's considering buying ...
7/2/2011
Massive UN-Supported African
Palm Plantations Leading to Oppression, Kidnapping and Murder
The promise of carbon credits and free money from schemes like the U.N.-backed Clean Development Mechanism, appear to be among the causes of ...
27/1/2011
The conglomerate with interests in everything from
oil refining to Dixie paper cups does not like having its trademark infringed by climate activists.
From the sometimes bizarre front lines of the climate-change culture wars: It seems ...
25/1/2011
Oil palm plantations in Sabah, Malaysia. The
palm oil industry maintains its product is "greening the planet" but the reality is more complex.
The commercial shows a typical office setting. A worker sits drearily at a desk, shredding ...
12/1/2011
The gradual rise of the Andes Mountains, which took place over millions of years, created conditions necessary for the Amazon to develop its rich biodiversity, according to a new study.
Drawing on a vast body of multidisciplinary ...
4/12/2010
GELLERMAN: REDD is also a major opportunity for conservationists who, for decades, have been trying to save the world's rain forests with little success. Under REDD, owners of forests would be paid to stop deforestation and keep the carbon in ...
2/12/2010
Analysts and government officials on Thursday accused the environmental group Greenpeace of fabricating its data on environmental destruction in Indonesia, and have called for the group to defend its claims.In the discussion “Menguak ...
26/11/2010
Rainforest covers 60 percent of Indonesia, yet this developing country is among the world's highest carbon emitters.
The reason: it has one of the world's fastest rates of deforestation, mainly for
palm oil production. As trees are ...