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Collaboration on Nature-Based Solutions is Key to Resilient City Infrastructure

  • sustainable cities
  • sustainable cities initiative
  • urban development
Departments that work together on projects and use natural infrastructure, like the Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park in Singapore, can achieve a variety of benefits. Photo by Stefano/Flickr.
  • sustainable cities
  • sustainable cities initiative
  • urban development
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3 Reasons to Invest in Renewable Energy Now

  • energy
  • oil and gas
  • renewable energy
  • solar
  • wind
Research shows that renewable energy investments yield a high return and create jobs. Photo by Roland Balik/U.S. Air Force
  • energy
  • oil and gas
  • renewable energy
  • solar
  • wind
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Climate Change Poses an Existential Risk to Ocean Industries. Here’s How They Can Respond.

  • adaptation
  • climate
  • climate change
  • coral reefs
  • fisheries
  • marine
  • oceans
Reef diver off Chagos Islands in Indian Ocean. Photo by Mark Spalding/Flickr
  • adaptation
  • climate
  • climate change
  • coral reefs
  • fisheries
  • marine
  • oceans
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6 Recent Signs of Hope for the Ocean

  • biodiversity
  • coral reefs
  • oceans
Coral reef at Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by US Fish and Wildlife Service/Flickr
  • biodiversity
  • coral reefs
  • oceans

Power Plants Use Water, But We Have No Idea How Much

  • Climate
  • coal
  • Mapping
  • oil and gas
  • water
  • water risk
  • water stress
  • Climate
  • coal
  • Mapping
  • oil and gas
  • water
  • water risk
  • water stress

Integrating Public Transport Networks to Overcome Jakarta Traffic Congestion

  • cities
  • sustainable cities
  • sustainable cities initiative
  • transportation
  • cities
  • sustainable cities
  • sustainable cities initiative
  • transportation
Life at WRI Indonesia

Extraction Custom in Mangun Jaya Village, South Sumatra

  • Climate
  • forests
  • oil and gas
  • palm oil
  • Life at WRI Indonesia
  • Climate
  • forests
  • oil and gas
  • palm oil
  • Life at WRI Indonesia

Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
  • air quality
  • climate change
  • forest restoration
  • international climate policy
  • oceans
  • oil and gas
  • Paris Agreement
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • water risk
  • water stress
  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
  • air quality
  • climate change
  • forest restoration
  • international climate policy
  • oceans
  • oil and gas
  • Paris Agreement
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • water risk
  • water stress
  • fire
  • forests
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • peat
  • peatland

Global Tree Cover Loss Rose 51 Percent in 2016

  • fire
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • Pengawasan Hutan Global (GFW)
  • fire
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • Pengawasan Hutan Global (GFW)

Indonesia’s Fire Outbreaks Producing More Daily Emissions than Entire US Economy

  • Climate
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil
Fire in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rini Sulaiman/ Norwegian Embassy for Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
  • Climate
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil

Indonesian Fires Create “Hazardous” Levels of Air Pollution in Singapore

  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Haze
  • Indonesia forest fires
Singapore during the 2013 haze crisis. Photo by Choo Yut Shing/Flickr.
  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Haze
  • Indonesia forest fires

Forest Fires Blaze in Indonesia’s Tesso Nilo National Park

  • deforestation
  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil
Tesso Nilo is home to endangered species like the Sumatran tiger. Photo by Steve Wilson/Flickr
  • deforestation
  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil

Indonesia’s Forest Fires Reignite, Threatening Protected Areas and Peatlands

  • agriculture
  • deforestation
  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil
Fires are again burning in Indonesia's forests. Photo by Rini Sulaiman/ Norwegian Embassy for Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
  • agriculture
  • deforestation
  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil
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Reefs at Risk Revisited

Fires Spread Across Indonesia as Parliament Approves Haze Treaty

  • air quality
  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil
  • pollution
  • timber
Forest fires in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo credit: Billy Gabriel/Flickr
  • air quality
  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil
  • pollution
  • timber

Indonesia Fires Flare: A Foreboding Start to Dry Season in Riau

  • fire
  • forests
  • governance
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil
Putting out fires in Riau, March 2014. Photo credit: Julius Lawalata/WRI.
  • fire
  • forests
  • governance
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil