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Mapping, Management, and Mitigation: How Peatlands Can Advance Climate Action in Southeast Asia

  • climate
  • Indonesian Peat Prize
  • Mapping
  • peat
  • peatland
Despite playing a major role in climate action, peatlands have been deforested and drained for agricultural lands. Photo credit: Nanang Sujana/CIFOR
  • climate
  • Indonesian Peat Prize
  • Mapping
  • peat
  • peatland
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Red Alert: 3 Strategies for Reducing Toxic Ozone Pollution

  • air quality
  • pollution
  • air quality
  • pollution
Life at WRI Indonesia

WRI Indonesia Development Strategy in Papua

  • local impacts
  • Papua
  • Life at WRI Indonesia
Membangun kepercayaan organisasi masyarakat sipil Papua penting untuk menghasilkan dampak yang besar. Foto: Rizky Haryanto/WRI
  • local impacts
  • Papua
  • Life at WRI Indonesia

6 Graphics Explain the Climate Feedback Loop Fueling US Fires

  • Climate
  • climate
  • emissions
  • Fires
  • forest
  • local impacts
  • United States
Bobcat Fire, as seen from Monrovia, California. Photo by Eddiem360/Wikimedia Commons
  • Climate
  • climate
  • emissions
  • Fires
  • forest
  • local impacts
  • United States
Life at WRI Indonesia

Steps to Continue Our Real Actions on the Field During a Pandemic

  • agroforestry
  • forest
  • local impacts
  • peatland
  • Life at WRI Indonesia
Bibit untuk rehabilitasi Hutan Desa Tandun (Sumber foto: Ali Imran)
  • agroforestry
  • forest
  • local impacts
  • peatland
  • Life at WRI Indonesia

Combating the Coronavirus Without Clean Water

  • water
  • water risk
About 3 billion people lack access to basic handwashing facilities in their homes. Photo by Rupert Taylor-Price/Flickr
  • water
  • water risk

3 Things to Consider Before Moving Indonesia's Capital from Jakarta

  • Cities & Transport
  • cities
  • deforestation
  • forest
  • water risk
Jakarta skyline. Flickr/Alex Hanoko
  • Cities & Transport
  • cities
  • deforestation
  • forest
  • water risk

3 Main Causes of Floods in Indonesia and How to Prevent Them

  • Climate
  • Cities & Transport
  • deforestation
  • water
  • water risk
Sekitar 640.000 orang di Indonesia terdampak bencana banjir setiap tahunnya. Kredit foto: Pinot Dita/Flickr
  • Climate
  • Cities & Transport
  • deforestation
  • water
  • water risk

The World Lost a Belgium-sized Area of Primary Rainforests Last Year

  • deforestation
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Mapping
Primary rainforests are critically important for storing carbon and providing habitat for jaguars, orangutans, gorillas and other animals. Photo by stokpic/Pixabay
  • deforestation
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Mapping

Too Many Cities Are Growing Out Rather than Up. 3 Reasons That’s a Problem

  • cities
  • governance
  • poverty
  • urban development
Informal settlements at the edge of Mumbai, India. Photo by Johnny Miller/Unequal Scenes
  • cities
  • governance
  • poverty
  • urban development
Data

Tracking Water Stress and Female Agricultural Holders

  • water risk
  • water
  • gender
  • water risk
  • water
  • gender
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The IPCC finds that limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C will bring less severe impacts than if the world warms by 2°C. Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William Ramsey/U.S. Navy
  • climate change
  • climate science
  • IPCC
  • local impacts
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8 Things You Need to Know About the IPCC 1.5˚C Report

  • adaptation
  • climate change
  • climate science
  • emissions
  • IPCC
  • local impacts
The world is way off track from its agreed-upon goal of limiting warming to 1.5˚C-2˚C (2.7-3.6˚ F). Photo by Chistopher Michel/Wikimedia Commons
  • adaptation
  • climate change
  • climate science
  • emissions
  • IPCC
  • local impacts
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3 Charts Explain One of the Most Overlooked Opportunities to Address Climate Change and Poverty

  • air quality
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
Air conditioning units in Hong Kong. Flickr/Niall Kennedy
  • air quality
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals

For Indigenous Peoples, Losing Land Can Mean Losing Lives

  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • poverty
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • poverty

7 Reasons We're Facing a Global Water Crisis

  • sustainable development goals
  • water
  • water risk
  • water stress
  • sustainable development goals
  • water
  • water risk
  • water stress

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

What Are the Environmental Costs of Valentine’s Day Flowers?

  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • water stress
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • water stress