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The thrilling sight of Irrawaddy dolphins may soon be no more than a memory, as numbers of the endangered mammals dwindle despite efforts to preserve them.
2 years agoAn activist in Jepara fights to protect rivers from pollution with puppets. ...
2 years agoSmoke from monster wildfires in Australia caused a chemical reaction that widened the ozone hole 10 percent, researchers said. ...
2 years agoTechnology is often touted as a solution to the world's environmental challenges, but it is also part of the problem: industry executives are facing rising pressure to clean up their energy and resource-intensive business.
6 years agoScientists in the United States have detected the highest levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere since records began, sounding new alarm over the relentless rise of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
6 years agoMost forms of aviation release not only carbon dioxide, but other greenhouse gases such as water vapor and nitrogen oxide, contributing to global warming. With more Indonesians flying than ever, what can be done nationally to limit the environmental impact of the aviation industry?
6 years agoTies have been deteriorating since a Canadian company sent around 100 shipping containers that included rotting rubbish wrongly labelled as recyclables to Philippine ports in 2013 and 2014.
6 years agoAngry comments have greeted the announcement of the European Union that Indonesia’s palm oil would be banned as the industry had aggravated deforestation, thus it was not renewable energy.
6 years agoSurveyors assigned to verify imports of nonhazardous waste will be under the government's scrutiny following reports on the increase of imported waste.
6 years agoHawaiian "super corals" that have recovered despite living in warm and acidic water offer a glimmer of hope that dying reefs across the world could be saved, a new study says.
6 years agoIndonesia has the highest percentage of climate change deniers among 23 countries surveyed by global public opinion and data company YouGov.
6 years agoOne person’s trash is another person’s treasure, they say. So, is Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia’s trash Indonesia’s treasure?
6 years agoOn the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, a Texas investor and explorer found something he could have found in the gutter of nearly any street in the world: trash.
6 years agoUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres launched a brief South Pacific tour in New Zealand Sunday, warning the world was "not on track" to limiting global temperature rises.
6 years agoLand in Indonesia is divided into two main categories: state forest area and non-forest area (APL). A state forest zone consists of both protected and production areas, while APL land is mostly designated for agriculture and human settlement.
6 years agoWaste imports to Indonesia soared from 10,000 tons per month in late 2017 to 35,000 tons per month in late 2018.
6 years agoPeru announced on Friday a two-week restriction to three important areas at Machu Picchu to prevent greater degradation to the iconic Inca citadel.
6 years agoThe global warming/extinction myth is back. Concerning the new 1,500-page United Nations assessment on the “global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services,” The New York Times reported on May 6.
6 years agoA social house collects used cooking oil from residents and sells it to a biodiesel manufacturer. The proceeds are used for alms.
6 years agoNew Zealand introduced legislation Wednesday to make the South Pacific nation carbon neutral by 2050, although greenhouse gas emissions from the economically vital agricultural sector will not have to meet the commitment.
6 years agoTeenagers in the US coastal state of North Carolina who were schooled in the basics of man-made climate change saw their parents grow more concerned about the issue, scientists said on Monday in the first study of its kind.
6 years agoRelentless pursuit of economic growth, twinned with the impact of climate change, has put an "unprecedented" one million species at risk of extinction, scientists said on Monday in a landmark report on the damage done by modern civilization to the natural world.
6 years agoDespite feeding almost exclusively on bamboo, the nutrients that giant pandas consume and absorb most closely resembles that of carnivores, a joint Chinese-Australian study revealed on Friday.
6 years agoPlastic industry players are suing the Bogor and Bali administrations for banning single-use plastics.
6 years agoTop diplomats from the United States, Russia and other nations which border the Arctic meet in Finland on Monday to discuss policies governing the polar region.
6 years agoThe closure will simultaneously affect the livelihood of travel agencies, tour guides and the West Manggarai community, who have been relying tourism.
6 years agoDiplomats and scientists from 132 nations wrapped up six days of negotiations in Paris Saturday over the wording of a landmark report on the dire state of Nature and its impact on humanity.
6 years agoPenguins Books announced on Thursday that it will publish a selection of the Swedish teenage activist's key speeches.
6 years agoWith as many as a million species threatened with extinction due to mankind's destruction of the planet, there have been scant conservation successes in recent years.
6 years agoNearly 500 US churches built in low-lying coastal areas are in danger of flooding at least once a year by 2050 should seas continue rising amid unchecked climate change.
6 years agoAs world leaders and scientists grapple with how best to combat climate change, Alaska's native people find themselves at the epicenter of a crisis that has forced them to rethink their traditional lifestyle.
6 years agoBrazil is home to more than half of the world's plant and animal species, but its ecological paradises are facing growing threats from big business and criminal outfits who have found a champion in far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
6 years ago"Let Nature Sing" comprises two and a half minutes of pure birdsong, featuring 25 of Britain's most endangered bird species.
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