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Ingrid Lobet

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Paper Trees in Precious Ground

Plantation industries have taken root across much of Southeast Asia’s peatland forests, disturbing habitat with the highest carbon content in the world. The release of carbon from Indonesia’s vast and deep peatlands has made this developing country the world’s third largest greenhouse gas emitter. Some forest experts say slowing this release could be one avenue for quick action on global warming. But how and whom to pay to stop Indonesia’s carbon hemorrhaging in places like Riau province remains unclear.

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Clearcut Chemicals

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Bare Shoulders: Herbicide Along the Highway

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Replanting Kenya

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Performing to Save Island Nations

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The Most Sustainable Street in LA

Neighborhoods at the foot of the hills in Los Angeles are sometimes flooded with heavy rain, but in one area the street has been re-engineered to capture the rain and water the plants.

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Kalimantan

In the eastern Indonesian province of Kalimantan or Borneo, healthy forest remains. The Nature Conservancy is trying to persuade timber operators and officials there to make one district a model to demonstrate coordinated, reduced emissions from deforestation.

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War’s Toll on Afghanistan’s Environment

As the US prepares to leave Afghanistan, there is an ugly legacy of environmental costs of 30 years of war.

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Closing State Parks

A drastic new California budget closes one quarter of all state parks, including historic Los Encinos in Los Angeles.

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Will Jerry Brown Shift California Cap and Trade?

California’s new Governor Jerry Brown, is not saying yet whether he’ll accede to demands from the left to tighten up the state’s impending carbon-trading system.