A solar power plant installation in Phetchabun province, Northern Thailand.
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A worker on a break looks over an open-pit coal mining concession in Makroman, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. At its most destructive pattern of operation, coal extraction transforms mountain tops into giant holes using explosives, the cheapest way employed by many coal mining companies in Indonesia.
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Surveyors measure and mark the land to expand a quarry at a mining concession in Makroman, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Clearing the land, to give way to mining, largely contributes to forest destruction in one of the world's last remaining ancient forests. ©Kemal Jufri/Greenpeace
An open-pit coal mine in Kertabuana, East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. According to a Greenpeace report, most of the large coal mining corporations in Indonesia use the open-pit mining method in their operations. ©Kemal Jufri/Greenpeace
With the Samarinda Grand Mosque in the backdrop, coal is transported on a barge via the Mahakam River in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The Mahakam River leads to the province’s rainforests and peatland forests- home to 147 indigenous freshwater fish species. ©Kemal Jufri/Greenpeace
A residential area that lies directly underneath a conveyor belt used for loading and conveying crushed coal on to a barge docked by the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Men, women and children are inevitably exposed to the health hazards of living with coal unprotected.
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A lone house defiantly stands at an abandoned village, after a nearby mining concession degraded the surrounding environment. Coal mining also contributes to the irreversible destruction of the community’s land, water and air resources and endangers health, safety and livelihood of nearby communities.
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A shepherdess watches over her flock of sheep that grazes near a coal power plant in Jepara, Central Java, Indonesia. Coal burning causes a trail of destruction that is no less harmful than coal mining. Coal powered plants emit toxics such as carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and methane- all major air pollutants that also contribute to climate change. ©Kemal Jufri/Greenpeace