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Out on a limb: Unlikely collaboration boosts orangutans in Borneo
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Out on a limb: Unlikely collaboration boosts orangutans in Borneo

In the heart of Indonesian Borneo, a dwindling population of orangutans is getting a new lease on life thanks to a group of wildlife rescuers and medical professionals who have joined forces.

Causes
Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting
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Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

The way humans have changed the forests of Central and South America may be making it impossible for subsistence hunters to continue their way of life, according to two conservation scientists.

Politics
Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming: Report
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Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming: Report

Land-based options offer the best solutions to help nations meet their Paris carbon reduction goals and limit warming to 1.5 degrees C, says study in response to new IPCC climate report.
Causes
Recovering conservationist: Q&A with orangutan ecologist June Mary Rubis
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Recovering conservationist: Q&A with orangutan ecologist June Mary Rubis

Orangutans face a bleak future in Borneo, hammered by habitat loss to plantations and mines, poached for the illegal pet trade, and exterminated by farmers.

Impacts
'It's our home': Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film

'It's our home': Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film

The word “pygmy" conjures images of hunter-gatherers living deep in the Congo rainforest, far removed from the modern world. But that modern world is closing in on them, as the forests in which they live fall to provide the rest of the world with timber and make way for huge industrial farms.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
Miners standing in a tunnel in front of equipment.

Trump plan would close dozens of mine safety offices, leaving coal towns exposed

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Coal-fired electricity spikes as gas prices rise, pushing up U.S. emissions

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New wildfire hazard maps expand zones for millions of Californians

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An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Climate scientist Michael Mann speaks at a podium with a porjection of the famous hockey Stick climate graph.

A climate scientist’s legal win just got flipped on its head

CLIMATE
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Young climate lawsuit ends after a decade without Supreme Court review

Facade of the National Institutes of Health.

NIH shuts down future research into climate change health impacts