For the first time, scientists have recorded singing by one of the rarest whales on Earth, and it just might be looking for a date.

Facing the annual threat of wildfires, Indonesia has set an ambitious target to restore and rewet 1.1 million hectares of critical peatland located on non-concession land, which includes conservation and protected forests, by 2020.

New York state lawmakers on Wednesday passed one of the world's most ambitious laws aimed at countering climate change, under which fossil fuel power plants and gasoline cars will be phased out by 2050.

Himalayan glaciers are melting twice as fast now as they were before the turn of the century, according to a new study that relied on recently declassified Cold War-era satellite imagery.

Embedded in the sleek lines and elegant cantilevers of modern buildings sprouting up in city centers is a huge amount of pollution.

Emissions need to be halved by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius but temperatures are on track to reach double that by the end of the century even if countries' current plans are fully implemented, research by scientists shows.

The "orange troops" are facing an uphill battle in cleaning up the Krukut River, including the unexplained disappearance of public trash cans.

Samota in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) has been added to UNESCO’s biosphere reserves list, making it the sixteenth biosphere reserve from Indonesia to be recognized by the organization.

On the surface, buying products marketed as eco-friendly might indicate growing environmental awareness, which is  good, but when it comes to saving the environment, the truth is far more complicated.

Carrying a penalty reaching up to hundreds of euros, dumpster diving is considered theft in Germany. Hundreds of activists across Germany still choose to carry on in the hope that they can force the industry to take action to end food waste.

In Morocco, sand has been stolen to help feed an industry that is growing at full tilt.

Most of us are familiar with the old saying that sometimes we cannot see the forest for the trees. But what if I told you, at our present rate of exploitation of our forests and depletion of our natural resources in Asia and the Pacific, that we run the risk of not seeing the forests or the trees by the middle of this century?

The Pacific nation of Palau has amended plans to create a huge marine reserve so Japanese trawlers still have partial access to its waters.

In Japan's Kamikatsu, sorting rubbish isn't that simple. Residents face a mind-boggling 45 separate categories for their garbage as the town aims to be "zero-waste" by 2020.

Reuters spoke with Bill Murray and Chloe Sevigny, who portray police, and Tilda Swinton, who plays a mysterious funeral parlor worker, about The Dead Don't Die's albeit lighthearted environmentalism.

The Jakarta Environment Agency launched the “Jakarta Less Waste Initiative” movement on Thursday to get commercial buildings and restaurants to reduce food waste.

Queensland's government said it had accepted a groundwater management plan for the Indian-owned Adani Carmichael mine -- the last major legal hurdle before construction can begin.

Recent studies on the health of our oceans offer irrefutable evidence that something very disturbing is taking place and that the threat to marine life has never been graver.

A rainforest area the size of Spain will be destroyed by firms growing consumer staples like palm oil in the decade to 2020, industry's self-imposed deadline to end deforestation.

The governor of West Java has said that he plans to use a loan from the World Bank to help those living near the Citarum River to find long-term solutions to the watercourse's trash problem.

They are synonymous with the Paris metro: the small, rectangular tickets with a magnetic strip down the middle that become embedded in tourists' pockets after a trip to the French capital.

Plastic pollution is so widespread in the environment that you may be ingesting five grams a week, the equivalent of eating a credit card, a study commissioned by the environmental charity WWF International said on Wednesday.

Alternative rock legends Radiohead on Tuesday released an 18-hour trove of private recordings from their 1997 album "OK Computer" after getting hacked by someone seeking a ransom of $150,000 for the music.

Israeli marine ecologist Assaf Zvuloni and his colleague Assaf Habary donned scuba gear and armed themselves with chisels and hammers before diving underwater to remove the coral in the Red Sea and take them to a new location.

The black softshell turtle is officially extinct in the wild, but a centuries-old Indian temple and its nature-loving caretaker are helping the creature make a tentative comeback.

Canada plans to ban some single-use plastics like straws, bags and cutlery by early 2021 to reduce non-recyclable waste and protect the world's oceans, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday.

Here’s a statistic: 75 percent of the infrastructure that will be required globally in 2050 has yet to be built. That sounds daunting, but the truth is more encouraging because it presents us with a critical opportunity.

Armed with better data than ever before, scientists have in recent months sounded the alarm over the rising pace of global warming and the parlous state of Nature. 

On a moonlit night off Italy's coast, fishermen are hauling in the usual catch: cuttlefish, red mullet and plastic waste. But this time, they won't throw the rubbish back.

Under pressure from frequent flyers alarmed over climate change, the airline industry says it is "hellbent" on reducing emissions — but the technology needed to drastically reduce its carbon footprint is still out of reach.