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Siding with frontline and Indigenous communities to protect our climate and keep forests standing. We challenge corporate power.

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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 17h
New report exposes the true cost of gas expansion across the Asia-Pacific ⚠️ It spotlights 5 community leaders along the gas supply chain, from points of extraction in Australia & Papua New Guinea to the industrial complexes in Thailand & South Korea 🌏 🔗 More here: tr.ee/U7qQDEhNz4
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 27/09/2026
We’re excited to partner with Mill Valley Film Festival! THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH is a visually stunning and emotionally gripping documentary about the fight to save Indonesia’s #LeuserEcosystem, one of the world’s last great rainforests, from the palm oil boom. OCT 1-11 Get tickets: www.mvff.com/
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 26/09/2026
In 2025, just 12 banks provided almost 40% of ALL fossil fuel funding from banks worldwide. That’s right, a dozen dirty banks are responsible for well over a third of the $906 billion poured into fossil fuels last year. See where your bank falls on the list: bankingonclimatechaos.org
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 26/09/2026
The food industry is dominated by just a handful of companies. The bigger these giants get, the more they are able to evade accountability, and destroy our planet NOT to feed society, but to fatten their own wallets. Learn more in @foeus.bsky.social's latest project: foodlandmoney.org
foodlandmoney.org
Food, Land & Money: Who Profits From the Global Food System?
Follow the money behind the global food system. Food, Land & Money reveals how Big Agribusiness and Big Finance shape what gets funded, who profits and who holds power.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 24/09/2026
Thank you @climatetown.bsky.social for covering such an important topic! The global demand for #PalmOil is driving deforestation in rainforests around the world. And in turn, forest destruction is contributing to the climate crisis. Learn more: youtu.be/roIOgtrjFGU
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This Weird Fruit Is In Absolutely Everything | Climate Town
It's a swamp! Check out Ground News! https://ground.news/climatetown/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ClimateTown sUbScRiBe FoR mOrE ViDeOs: https://www.youtube.com/c/climatetown?sub_confirmation=1 Rainforest Action Network has been campaigning for...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 24/09/2026
Join us at a #NYClimateWeek screening of our new documentary, The Last Place on Earth, a gripping story of the #LeuserEcosystem – a 6.4 million acre forest where tigers, elephants, rhinos & orangutans still roam free. When: Fri, Sept 25, 6pm Where: The People's Forum NYC RSVP: ran.org/LastPlaceNYC
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Rainforest Action Network - Last Place on Earth Screening
Join us for a private, invite-only screening of The Last Place on Earth!
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 24/09/2026
The fires in Indonesia aren't an accident. They're a result of the slash-and-burn technique used to clear land for industrial palm oil plantations. Since January, more than 895,657 hectares have been burned across Indonesia, according to data from Nusantara Atlas. bit.ly/3TjyphR
theguardian.com
‘The physical toll is visceral': How Indonesia's fire haze affects millions - visual guide
Intensified by this year's super El Niño, fires in Borneo and Sumatra are emitting toxic air for swathes of the population in Indonesia and its neighbours
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 22/09/2026
ExxonMobil: Hey, society is wayyy past being able to lower carbon emissions enough to meet our goals for 2050. Also ExxonMobil: More oil, anyone? 🥴 www.reuters.com/business/energy/exx…
reuters.com
Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline
The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slower rate than previously expected.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 22/09/2026
Fires in West Kalimantan are threatening orangutan habitat. One 657-hectare forest is home to 60 Bornean orangutans. It's unclear how many are left. These fires are driven partially by industrial expansion for palm oil & timber, with companies using fire to clear lands. bit.ly/3TNtdmJ
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Rescuers race against time as fires ravage orangutan habitat inside Indonesian oil palm concession
JAKARTA -- Conservationists are racing to rescue orangutans from a fire-ravaged peat-swamp forest inside an RSPO-certified oil palm concession in West Kalimantan, with smoke still rising and the ground remaining dangerously hot. The 657-hectare (1,623-a...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 20/09/2026
Indonesian women are at the frontlines of fires in Kalimantan 🔥 💪 The Power of Mama is the first female firefighting team. The group is made up of 146 women from 10 different villages in West Kalimantan, Borneo. Their goal is to protect the forest & fight the patriarchy 💚 bit.ly/4xrOGzl
theguardian.com
The women saving Borneo: battling fire, patriarchy and super El Niño on Indonesia's peatland frontlines
Fire threatens Kalimantan's rainforests. On the peatland frontlines, a group of local mothers is defending their community
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 19/09/2026
Each year @globalwitness.org dives into the data of how many land and environmental defenders are killed or disappeared each year – and the numbers are always harrowing. Last year alone, 124 land defenders were killed 💔 bit.ly/474cdM0
globalwitness.org
In numbers: Attacks against defenders since 2012
Explore our full dataset to find out where killings of defenders are occurring, which industries are responsible, and how this violence has changed over time
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 18/09/2026
This is why we must challenge corporate power. As regulators gear up to implement the European Union Deforestation Regulation (#EUDR), American and Canadian industry groups spend millions of dollars to exempt North American timber and paper goods from rules. mongabay.cc/FGPUiX
mongabay.cc
The EU approved an antideforestation law. The US paper lobby sought to weaken it
When the European Union's new anti-deforestation law threatened to expose the environmental costs of logging in North America's forests, the American paper industry, supported by the U.S. government, mobilized an intense lobbying effort to weaken the le...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 17/09/2026
Representative Harriet Hageman is seeking to block lawsuits that attempt to hold the oil and gas industry accountable for their climate destruction. Nearly 200 climate organizations are urging Democratic leaders in Congress to oppose any form of legal protection for Big Oil! bit.ly/4cPCdOJ
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Big Oil immunity bill in the works, House Representative announces | Center for Climate Integrity
Following a year of Big Oil lobbying, U.S. House Representative Harriet Hageman (R-WY) is crafting legislation to “tackle” climate accountability laws and lawsuits.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 17/09/2026
The crisis in Kalimantan is not over❗🔥 Fires have now started in Nusantara, Indonesia's new capitol city. Not only is this destroying precious forest, orangutan habitat, and releasing carbon, but it's a direct result of industrial clearing of forests. bit.ly/3VgZvqB
news.mongabay.com
Wildfires on doorstep of Indonesia's new capital as environmental and health crisis flares
PENAJAM PASER, Indonesia -- Indonesia's escalating wildfire crisis has reached the outskirts of Nusantara, the new capital city under construction as the world's fourth-most-populous country seeks to transplant its political heartland from a flood plain...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 15/09/2026
In Brazil, a proposed 1-GW AI data center has blindsided residents in Paracatu, where groundwater demand already exceeds 100%. The massive project threatens fragile Cerrado springs in a region plagued by water conflicts, highlighting the global footprint of the AI energy boom. 🧵
mongabay.cc
Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil
As water wells turn to dust, local leaders learn of the massive facility firsthand from reporters.
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A new @nrdc.org report exposes how the tissue industry is tied to ongoing harm in #GrassyNarrows “We want to restore a healthy future and our way of life for the next generation.” — Chief Sherry Ackabee of Grassy Narrows www.nrdc.org/stories/toil... #FreeGrassy
nrdc.org
Toilet Paper Shouldn’t Come with Human Rights Abuses
The legacy of mercury poisoning in the Grassy Narrows community within the Canadian boreal is just one egregious example of the tissue industry harming Indigenous People.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 15/09/2026
Trump's EPA is giving power plants a free pass on climate pollution, while undermining the government's authority to act. The move comes after its repeal of the endangerment finding for vehicles, which we're currently challenging in court.​
earthjustice.org
Trump’s EPA Rolled Back the ‘Endangerment Finding.’ We’re Taking Them to Court.
The EPA revoked the finding that greenhouses gases threaten public health and welfare, then weakened emissions standards for vehicles. Now, it’s doing the same for power plants.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 15/09/2026
Another disappointment... The Trump administration is repealing rules that limit GHG emissions from oil & gas power plants, which make up a QUARTER of the nation's climate pollution. These rules prevent thousands of deaths and billions of dollars each year in climate damage. bit.ly/4AesyLl
apnews.com
EPA eliminates rule that limits planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
The Environmental Protection Agency is repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas, an action the agency said would save industry more than $300 billion in costs and help “unleash” ...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 15/09/2026
Bornean orangutans are in danger❗Fires in Kalimantan are destroying their habitat at alarming rates. These orangutans are also suffering severe health impacts from smoke inhalation 💔 Bornean orangutans are critically endangered. Another reason to #KeepForestsStanding bit.ly/4AdDwB0
news.mongabay.com
Rescuers scramble to save orangutans as El Niño-boosted fires spread across Borneo
BANJARMASIN, Indonesia -- As a strengthening El Niño fuels wildfires across much of Indonesia, NGO and government conservationists are at work in forests here trying to save an increasing number of orangutans from burning landscapes. “Seven individuals ...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 13/09/2026
We've been monitoring the Singkil peat swamp & wildlife reserve, known as the "Orangutan Capital of the World." Our investigations found that the peat swamp is being cleared & drained for #PalmOil plantations. These images show exactly what's at risk. Which is your favorite? bit.ly/46S5pRw
news.mongabay.com
Singkil peat swamp: The embattled orangutan capital of the world
Deep within Indonesia's Leuser Ecosystem, one of the most important peat swamp forests left on Earth is being cleared, drained, and burned. The Singkil peat swamp is the largest of three remaining coastal peat swamp forests on Sumatra's west coast, alon...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 12/09/2026
Studies find that forests with greater tree diversity can better withstand heat, drought, and flooding, and can recover faster. This is why biodiversity is so important! Meanwhile, companies are out here planting monoculture plantations of #PalmOil 🙃 #KeepForestsStanding bit.ly/46PscgK
earth.com
Tree diversity gives forests a powerful defense against climate extremes
Forests with greater tree diversity withstand extreme heat, drought, and flooding better and recover faster after compound climate extremes.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 11/09/2026
Trump's infamous border wall is destroying the local ecosystem and Indigenous sacred sites. Who would have thought? 🙄 "Every saguaro [cactus] out there we look at as a person...we take care of it and it takes care of us" –Verlon Jose, Chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation bit.ly/4gSoJCQ
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‘I don't know where this stops': Trump's border wall decimates indigenous land
For the Tohono O'odham Nation, the indigenous inhabitants of southwestern Arizona, the giant saguaro cacti are considered people. Contractors building Trump's border wall are uprooting them, destroying many other sacred sites and crucial biodiversity al...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 10/09/2026
JBIC will investigate complaints filed by TX community leaders over Freeport LNG's health & safety risks!🎉 JBIC provided a $2.6 billion loan in support of the project "The only responsible outcome of this investigation is to cut off financing for Freeport LNG" –Melanie Oldham bit.ly/4cuO70b
oilchange.org
Japan Bank for International Cooperation Launches Investigation of Freeport LNG Following Community Complaints - Oil Change International
Manning Rollerson, Founder and Director, Freeport Haven Project: “I've traveled to Tokyo twice to meet Japanese financiers and tell them, face to face, what
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 09/09/2026
Nearly a decade ago, scientists gave us a goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius for limiting global heating. Now, it's estimated that warming will reach 1.8 degrees Celsius. Every increment of heating will intensify climate disaster. If this isn't a wake up call, we don't know what is. bit.ly/4xhGVfp
theguardian.com
Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes'
But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 09/09/2026
The recent flooding disaster in #Nepal was caused by melting glaciers in the Himalayas loosening the rocky mountainsides. The glacier collapse read as a 5.2 magnitude earthquake. As climate change worsens, more of these flash floods are prone to happen. cnn.it/3UxpJVE
cnn.com
What we know -- and don't know -- about what cause the Nepal flood wave | CNN
It will take weeks to establish the exact causes, but a team of international scientists believes a huge chunk of glacier sheared off and fell into the valley below.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 07/09/2026
Climate disasters are pushing insurance companies across the U.S. to abandon their customers. It's no longer profitable for them to do what they promised to – protect us from risk. And yet they continue to insure the RISKIEST sector of all: fossil fuels... #InsureOurFuture wapo.st/4ie5upD
washingtonpost.com
Why more homeowners across the U.S. are turning to an insurance that offers less coverage
As traditional insurers retreat from areas most vulnerable to extreme weather, more Americans struggling to find coverage are seeking out surplus line plans.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 06/09/2026
In the last 40 years, 9% of forests across the American West have died, mostly due to wildfires. Fires have turned from natural processes of ecosystem management, to crises, due to a combination of climate change and human interference with natural fires. bit.ly/469psL3
nationalgeographic.com
How Wildfire Is Erasing the Forests of the American West
The Jemez Mountains in New Mexico survived centuries of wildfires--but are now slowly transforming into grasslands.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 05/09/2026
You don't want to miss this. Award-winning documentary #Yanuni is now streaming on YouTube’ Directed by Richard Ladkani & co-produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and Juma Xipaia, YANUNI follows Juma Xipaia and her fight to protect the Amazon 💚🌴 Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=RhDdAONYZeQ #AmazonDay
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YANUNI | Inside the Battle for the Amazon | Oscar® Shortlisted Documentary Feature Film
Award-winning environmental documentary thriller YANUNI is a story of love and resistance. From critically acclaimed director Richard Ladkani and producers Juma Xipaia, Anita Ladkani and Leonardo DiCaprio, YANUNI follows Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia, ...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 03/09/2026
🔥 🚨 Kalimantan is on fire 🚨🔥 In just one day, fire hotspots DOUBLED in West Kalimantan, from 3,553 to 7,377, while active fires increased by 88 to 104. There are over 5,000 hotspots in Central Kalimantan, and more all across Indonesia. bit.ly/4xyfSxd
independent.co.uk
Maps show surge in Indonesian wildfires with people and orangutans choking to death
Indonesian minister says ‘super El Nino’ conditions deepening drought and fuelling fires
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 02/09/2026
Floods have killed over 900 people in Nepal and Tibet, with 4,500 missing. The Himalayas have been particularly impacted by climate change, with has melted glaciers in the mountains. This loosens rock underneath, creating a deadly sludge of rock and ice when floods happen 💔 bit.ly/46mZvb7
democracynow.org
“Catastrophe of Unimaginable Proportions”: Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 900; Near 5,000 Still Missing
More than 900 people in Nepal are confirmed dead after a massive wall of water, mud and debris crashed through a Himalayan river valley on the border with Tibet. More than 4,200 people are missing in Nepal and hundreds more in Tibet. Families are search...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 31/08/2026
Trump is seeking to open nearly 3 million acres of the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monument to mining, logging, and oil & gas leasing. It's also opening up Chaco Canyon. For Indigenous communities, this is like putting a pipeline through the Vatican. bit.ly/4iyNCWw
currentaffairs.org
Trump's Land Grab is the Latest Chapter of Indigenous Cultural Genocide
The assault on Chaco Canyon, Bears Ears, and other sacred lands is a blatant continuation of America's centuries-long campaign against Native people.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 28/08/2026
In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the forest has been transformed by wildfire. All that stands now is brown shrubland. This is a growing phenomenon across the West as fires grow more intense – studies estimate that 40% of Western conifer forests will turn into shrubland by 2100 nyti.ms/4hSD0lf
nytimes.com
Bigger, Hotter Fires Are Slowly Erasing America's Great Forests
Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions “just aren't normal anymore,” one researcher said.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 27/08/2026
South Sumatra is experiencing deadly wildfires with 1,429 detected by Environment Ministry satellites. 1,226 fires have been detected in West Kalimantan and 811 in Central Kalimantan. These fires have been driven partially by forest clearing for industrial expansion. bit.ly/46ovVBI
aljazeera.com
Indonesia battles haze as wildfires rage across South Sumatra forests
Indonesia deploys prayers and emergency measures to combat South Sumatra's raging wildfires and hazardous haze.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 26/08/2026
In 2024, Dutch bank ING committed to stop financing oil & gas companies developing new fields. But an investigation by @ftm.nl shows the bank provided $908 million to 3 companies that are drilling or intending to develop new oil fields in the North Sea. Shame! bit.ly/3SuqldW
dutchnews.nl
ING funding oil firms it vowed to drop, report finds - DutchNews.nl
ING has failed on its promise to stop financing oil and gas companies that keep opening new fields, an investigation by Follow the Money (FTM) has found. In September 2024 the Amsterdam-based bank said it would immediately halt all new financing to comp...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 25/08/2026
"Climate change is making wildfires more frequent and more destructive around the world ... One of the fastest ways to slow this cycle is also one of the most obvious: stop financing the destruction of the world's forests and wetlands" –Ginger Cassady, RAN Executive Director bit.ly/4hZPyr7
brusselstimes.com
How banks worsen forest destruction in Europe and abroad
Entire hillsides engulfed in flames. Firefighters pushed beyond their limits. Families forced to flee as another summer of record heat turns forests into tinderboxes.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 24/08/2026
The Trump admin is seeking to eliminate the drill-free buffer zone around the Chaco Culture national historic park, one of the country's 27 world heritage sites. This "drill baby drill" agenda comes at a time when we need to make a rapid transition to clean energy. bit.ly/4gfYvLw
theguardian.com
Trump plan to allow drilling near US world heritage site sparks alarm
Administration's plan to scrap drilling-free buffer zone around New Mexico site prompts scrutiny from Unesco
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 22/08/2026
📣 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 📣 @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social & @nychange.bsky.social are seeking stories from #NewYorkers about rising insurance costs & vanishing coverage. Whether you've been dropped, priced out, or just watching it get worse, they want to hear from you: stmp.link/IOCNYsurvey
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 21/08/2026
335 MILLION hectares (828 million acres) of land burned last year alone. Some of the biggest wildfires occurred in the Arctic and Boreal regions, which hold about TWO-THIRDS of global forest carbon. That means the climate impact is even bigger when these forests burn❗🔥 bit.ly/4bYRqwk
weforum.org
Why the Arctic-boreal wildfires matter to the whole world
Protecting the Arctic and boreal regions from wildfire is an essential part of tackling climate change, protecting public health and building resilience.
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
One month until River Run! Chrissy Isaacs & Clayton Thomas-Müller will be at River Run fighting for mercury justice. Will you march with them? On Sept. 23, thousands will march through Toronto with Grassy Narrows - will you? RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/river... #RiverRun2026 #GrassyNarrows
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 20/08/2026
Global war is both driven by and fueled by fossil fuels. And while communities and the environment suffer, corporations make bank. With the latest wars in Iran and Ukraine, oil supply constraints and spiked prices have brought in more than $65 BILLION to just 10 oil companies. bit.ly/3TXrefv
oilchange.org
Our Pain, Their Gain: Tax Big Oil's $65 Billion War Windfall - Oil Change International
The world's five largest international oil companies (IOCs) and five largest U.S. independent refiners made over US$65 billion in profits in the second
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 19/08/2026
It’s #InternationalOrangutanDay! 🦧 There are two types of orangutans: the Sumatran and Bornean orangutan. The Bornean orangutan relies on landscapes like the Mahakam Watershed, which is under threat of palm oil expansion. Learn more about our work to protect this landscape: bit.ly/4aDeUXQ
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 18/08/2026
Of all the palm oil plantations in the #MahakamUlu regency, 98% are owned by industry, NOT smallholder farmers. When these plantations are concentrated in the hands of a few large corporations who are divorced from the land, there is little accountability for environmental or community impacts.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 18/08/2026
Last week, major Japanese insurance company SOMPO released a report warning against reliance on fossil fuels. Meanwhile they have failed to establish a policy to halt underwriting new fossil fuel projects... make it make sense. #InsureOurFuture @insureourfuture.bsky.social bit.ly/4wyeoBS
global.insure-our-future.com
SOMPO warns of Japan's Fossil Fuel Dependency
SOMPO's own report warns fossil fuel dependence risks Japan's economy and equity--yet the insurer still underwrites LNG projects like Calcasieu Pass 2. JACSES breaks down the contradiction.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 16/08/2026
Raja Ampat in the #CoralTriangle is a biodiversity-rich region of Indonesia being threatened by nickel mining. After a public outcry, the Indonesian government revoked 4 mining permits– but a new @greenpeace.org report reveals that 3 more companies are seeking mining rights bit.ly/4fNDU13
news.mongabay.com
Mining threat persists in Raja Ampat, Indonesia's ‘Amazon of the Seas'
JAKARTA -- Raja Ampat, one of the world's most biodiverse marine regions, remains under pressure from Indonesia's expanding nickel industry as three companies continue to seek permission to develop nickel projects in the archipelago, according to a new ...
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 14/08/2026
The #MahakamUlu regency of East Kalimantan, Borneo contains 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of standing forest. Of that, 250,000 hectares are palm oil concessions, and 250,000 are timber concessions, meaning a THIRD of all forest in Mahakam Ulu is threatened by industry.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 12/08/2026
The #MahakamLandscape in East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo contains amazing biodiversity. These are just some of the species that rely on the landscape 🐬 🦏 🦧 🦤
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 10/08/2026
The earth's biodiversity was formed as a result of millions of years of changes. Now, scientists have estimated that by 2050, climate change will have caused the equivalent of 3 million years of change in tropical vegetation. The Amazon could lose over a third of its forests. bit.ly/4wapYD8
theconversation.com
Impact of climate change may be equivalent to 3.3 million years of transformations in tropical vegetation
Changes that took millions of years can now happen in a matter of decades, and this accelerated rythm can be destructive, with dangerous consequences for the planet
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 09/08/2026
Today, on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we celebrate Indigenous leadership & recognize that celebration isn’t enough. We need to follow Indigenous leadership. The future is already being built. The world needs to listen. #IndigenousPeoplesDay2026 #IndigenousLeadership
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 09/08/2026
In the #MahakamUlu regency, 28,500 people rely on the river system for transport, food, and culture. The Indigenous Dayak Bahau, Modang, and Kenyah peoples have lived in the Mahakam landscape for centuries. But industrial expansion threatens their way of life. 📸: Nanang Sujana
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 08/08/2026
New data from the World Resources Institute shows that the world's intact forest landscapes decreased by 15% between 2000 and 2025 – an area the size of Mexico. The main drivers of this forest loss are human-caused fires, which caused 40% of the destruction. bit.ly/4wElu8E
wri.org
Fragmentation and Fires Are Threatening the World's Last Intact Forests
The world's remaining intact forest landscapes are shrinking. Human-caused fires, logging, and mining, drilling and exploration are the leading causes.
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