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An area eight times the size of Bali has burned in Indonesia in the last five years, new Greenpeace report shows
Greenpeace Southeast Asia’s new report ‘Burning Issues: Five Years of Fire’ reveals that 4.4 million hectares of land in Indonesia – an area 8 times the size of Bali – have burned between 2015-2019.
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Burning Issues: Five Years of Fire
The 2015 fire season in Indonesia was the worst in nearly two decades, with the blazes for almost a month emitting daily carbon emissions that exceeded those from the entire US economy.
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2019 Annual Report: Sounding the Alarm
At the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, I watched Greta Thunberg deliver her impassioned speech. “How dare you!,” she thundered at world leaders as she berated mount a significant response them for not doing enough to address the climate emergency.
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Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve (KLNFR) De-gazettement
We, representatives from various civil-society organisations, are writing to raise serious concerns related to the proposed development and de-gazettement of the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve.
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Health experts call for reusable PPE to protect people and planet
Health experts around the world today endorsed the use of well-made reusable masks or gloves that are properly sanitised in order to protect the environment from pollution as well as our communities from the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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Greenpeace captures images of illegal fires raging in the Amazon
Greenpeace Brazil has captured photos of fire hotspots burning throughout the state of Mato Grosso, in the Amazon rainforest.
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Greenpeace finds Asia Pulp and Paper guilty of peatland clearance and fuelling forest fires in Indonesia
As the fire season looms in Indonesia, Greenpeace Southeast Asia revealed that Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), has been actively clearing Sumatran peatland for pulpwood plantations.
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Approval of monoculture farm development in Peninsular Malaysia’s forest reserves raises concerns
Malaysian environmental NGOs are against the Federal and several State Governments’ decision to go ahead with and approve the initiative to develop monoculture farms at forest reserves in Peninsular Malaysia at a large scale.
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Saving the Arctic
Most of us will never travel to the Arctic. Even so, this far away region touches our daily lives in ways you may not realise.