Improved urban air quality is one of the frequent arguments evoked in favor of PEV adoption in Indonesia. However, there remains at least one important question that is rarely discussed, namely: How clean is the electrical power used to meet the additional demand from PEVs? In other words, would the adoption of PEVs actually contribute to a reduction of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions?

Dieng Culture Festival will no longer include a sky lantern show after criticism from environmentalists and the Environment and Forestry Ministry.

Pertamina Hulu Energi workers, with the help of international experts in the well control sector, have been attempting to stop a leak at a broken well located 2 kilometers north of Karawang, West Java, since Aug. 1.

Slimy, stinky brown seaweed that ruins beachgoers' vacations from Mexico to Florida may be the new normal unless Brazil halts Amazon deforestation, experts say.

World leaders must prove that they have listened to young climate activists after a year of protests has not led to any progress in the reduction of greenhouse emissions, leading activist Greta Thunberg said.

July was the hottest month across the globe ever measured, and 2019 is on track to be one of the warmest years, according to data released Monday by the European Union's Earth observation network. 

The KN95 respirator face mask is said to be able to filter up to 95 percent of finer particles of dust and pollution. 

San Francisco International Airport is banning the sale of single-use plastic bottles and will require fliers to buy refillable bottles if they're not already carrying their own, US media reported on Friday.

As an archipelagic country with an ocean area larger than its land territory, Indonesia is more vulnerable to oil spills than other countries in the region.

The Guardian uses a Google technology called TensorFlow that can record every sound in the forest and send them to the forest rangers’ smartphones through the Rainforest Connection mobile application.

Canada will create a protected marine area in the country's Arctic region, where climate change is taking effect three times faster than global average.

Slated to run until Oct. 31, the program is part of the company's #BirukanLangitJakarta (Make Jakarta’s Sky Blue) campaign that was introduced in March.

Marine plastic pollution has been acknowledged in recent years as one of the major global environmental issues and challenges. Since the beginning of 2019, movements to combat marine plastic pollution have accelerated around the world.

Plastic and paper trash believed to have originated from abroad has been found near the Burangkeng landfill in Bekasi, West Java.

Besek (containers made of plaited bamboo) will replace single-use plastic bags to distribute meat during Idul Adha, the Islamic Day of Sacrifice.

Too much plastic and not enough schools are scourges of modern life many countries face. Now a factory in West Africa will try to tackle both by transforming old flip-flops and car tires into bricks to build classrooms.

Some 200 reindeer have been found dead from starvation in the Arctic archipelago Svalbard, an unusually high number, the Norwegian Polar Institute said Monday, pointing the finger at climate change. 

Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg is taking a year off school to pursue her campaign to curb global warming in the Americas, which she will reach by sailboat on a transatlantic voyage.

After 28 days below the sea at a crushing depth of 120 meters, a team of four researchers emerged into the sunshine at the French Mediterranean port of Marseille on Sunday.

With study-after-study showing climate impacts from extreme weather to polar melt and sea level rise outstripping initial forecasts, negotiators have a fast-closing window to try to turn the aspirations agreed in Paris into meaningful outcomes.

The devastating forest fires four years ago, the worst in two decades, still loom over the conscience of the government after the Supreme Court on July 16 rejected an appeal filed by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo against a lower court ruling that found his government guilty of failing to prevent the forest fires.

Concerned about used diapers floating down the river near his home, 43-year-old Rudi Eko Prasetyo has come up with a way to turn them into something useful.

In early discussions, Syafrin said both sides agreed on two alternative routes in Central Jakarta.

The 125 kilograms (275 pound) haul of rhino horn discovered at Hanoi's Noi Bai airport on Thursday was found after the carefully disguised shipment aroused suspicion.

A majority of Britons think climate change will be a more important issue than Brexit in the future, a poll showed on Friday.

The corporate "caravan" that motors across valleys and mountains ahead of the cyclists competing in the Tour de France has been a crowd-pleaser for decades, but ecologists want organizers to put an end to the avalanche of plastic it generates.

Preventing climate change by replacing fossil fuel-based energy with renewable energy is as important as the orangutan’s survival. Therefore, the two should be able to coexist and to impact positively on each other. #opinion

French local authorities said Wednesday that a high-profile "solar highway" experiment in Normandy had failed, but vowed to try again with new panels on a shorter stretch of road.

A Russian state official warned on Wednesday that an abandoned chemicals factory in Siberia could cause an environmental disaster akin to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident unless urgent action is taken to tackle it.

Jokowi’s reluctance to push for a more ambitious environmental agenda could be seen in his position toward  a forest and peatland permit issuance moratorium.