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The long-awaited moratorium orders government institutions to freeze issuing new permits to log or convert primary forests and peatlands for two years
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono inked into law a two-year moratorium on new...
May 19, 2011
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GAR, the world's second-biggest palm oil producer, has vowed to stop razing Indonesian forests that are especially rich in carbon and biodiversity
The world's second biggest palm oil company has agreed to halt deforestation in valuable areas of...
Feb 10, 2011
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Weak legal definitions of "forest" and "degraded land" are allowing logging industry to take advantage of an ambitious UN forest rescue scheme
Indonesia plans to class large areas of its remaining natural forests as "degraded" land in order...
Nov 23, 2010
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A Look at Volcanic Eruptions Past, and Those Still to Come
By Kunda Dixit, Nepali Times
I found myself in Jakarta last week as news started coming in of...
Apr 20, 2010
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In 2004, Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan professor, won the Nobel Peace Prize for her Greenbelt Campaign...
Feb 15, 2010
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By Daniel Kessler
On Nov. 16, two Greenpeace activists from Germany and Italy and two members of...
Nov 18, 2009
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Deforestation is responsible for about 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Driven in part by...
Aug 19, 2009
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In early December 2004, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered a police crackdown on...
Apr 10, 2009
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Corporate security guards and police kicked and brutally dragged away Greenpeace activists during...
Mar 22, 2009
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