TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia: The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed knobby branch hits the ground. “Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer TariContinue Reading
CENTRAL JAVA: Rasjoyo could only watch in silence as his small wooden boat sailed through Semonet, a sleepy fishing village in the northern coast of Java he once called home. The coast has receded about 1.5km inland in the last two decades, submerging 54 houses and hundreds of hectares ofContinue Reading
Dozens of other fires broke out in Georgia and western North Carolina, which were both hard-hit by Hurricane Helene. In some areas, the fallen trees can act as fuel and promote fire spread in the short and long term, according to Virginia Iglesias, who studies the effects of climate variabilityContinue Reading
Militaries, which are among the biggest consumers of fuel, account for 5.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. If the world’s militaries were a country, they would have the fourth-highest carbon footprint after China, the United States, and India. With 750 bases worldwide, the U.S. military’s emissions are the largest,Continue Reading
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Scores of wildfires broke out across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in early March 2025 as strong winds, abnormally dry conditions, and low humidity combined to kindle and spread the flames. The fires followed a year ofContinue Reading
In late 2021, Typhoon Rai, locally known as Supertyphoon Odette, rocked the Caraga and Southern Leyte regions of the Philippines. The Category 5 storm brought torrential rain, landslides, and storm surges that killed more than 400 people and temporarily displaced hundreds of thousands. It was just one of many “onceContinue Reading
Follow the 10-inch pipeline that stretches south from Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, and after 13 miles you’ll find yourself at a potentially major future hub for sustainable aviation fuel in the upper Midwest. In a deal announced in September, the Koch Industries-owned Pine Bend Refinery in Rosemount, Minnesota, would receiveContinue Reading
The Trump administration’s retreat from U.S. climate policy poses an immediate geostrategic challenge for Australia: how to stay relevant to Southeast Asia as the region rapidly builds green supply chains. Southeast Asia’s transition to clean energy is inevitable, and Australia must either deepen its engagement or risk falling behind. SoutheastContinue Reading
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just four West African countries are the foundation of an industry worth more than $100 billion. In the tropical nations of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria, rows of cacao trees sprout pods bearing dozens ofContinue Reading
John Clarke Mills was in a Zoom meeting when everything went to hell. It was half past 10 on the morning of January 7, 2025, and Mills—slim, profane, voice charred by years of smoking—was talking up his free fire-tracking app, Watch Duty, to a coworker and one of his nonprofit’sContinue Reading
