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Environment premium

The battle to save Cambodia's river dolphins from extinction

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 ago
Environment premium

Protecting Indonesian rivers with wayang

An activist in Jepara fights to protect rivers from pollution with puppets.  ...

2 years ago
Environment premium

Massive Australia wildfires increased Antarctic ozone hole: study

Smoke from monster wildfires in Australia caused a chemical reaction that widened the ozone hole 10 percent, researchers said. ...

2 years ago

The Latest

Science & Tech

Dirty data: Firms count environmental costs of digital planet

Technology 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 ago
Environment

415.26 parts per million: CO2 levels hit historic high

Scientists 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 ago
Opinion

Flight decisions matter for climate change

Most 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 ago
SEAsia

Philippines says envoy recalled over Canada trash row

Ties 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 ago
Opinion

Leaving Paris Agreement: Indonesia’s loss or the world’s?

Angry 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 ago
Indonesia premium

Government to boost scrutiny of waste imports

Surveyors assigned to verify imports of nonhazardous waste will be under the government's scrutiny following reports on the increase of imported waste.

6 years ago
Environment

'Super corals' give glimmer of hope for world's dying reefs

Hawaiian "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 ago
Indonesia

One in five Indonesians don't believe human activity causes climate change

Indonesia has the highest percentage of climate change deniers among 23 countries surveyed by global public opinion and data company YouGov.

6 years ago
Editorial

Your trash not our treasure

One 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 ago
Environment

Trash found littering ocean floor in deepest-ever sub dive

On 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 ago
Environment

UN chief says world 'not on track' with climate change

UN 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 ago
Opinion premium

KEE, conservation outside protected areas

Land 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 ago
Indonesia premium

Unwanted trash: Developed nations accused of dumping hazardous, unrecyclable plastic waste in Indonesia

Waste imports to Indonesia soared from 10,000 tons per month in late 2017 to 35,000 tons per month in late 2018.

6 years ago
Environment

Peru to limit Machu Picchu access to prevent deterioration

Peru 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 ago
Opinion premium

Extinctions not driven by global warming

The 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 ago
City premium

Turn used cooking oil into alms? Why not!

 A social house collects used cooking oil from residents and sells it to a biodiesel manufacturer. The proceeds are used for alms.

6 years ago
Environment

New Zealand unveils plan to go carbon neutral by 2050

New 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 ago
Parenting

Children may be their parents' best climate-change teachers, scientists find

Teenagers 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 ago
Environment

Scientists warn a million species at risk of extinction

Relentless 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 ago
Environment

Panda's bamboo diet appears deceptively carnivorous: Study

Despite 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 ago
Indonesia premium

Indonesian group backs up plastic bans amid judicial review

Plastic industry players are suing the Bogor and Bali administrations for banning single-use plastics.

6 years ago
Environment

Arctic nations to meet amid tensions over environment, resources

Top 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 ago
Editorial

Komodo management

The closure will simultaneously affect the livelihood of travel agencies, tour guides and the West Manggarai community, who have been relying tourism.

6 years ago
Environment

UN biodiversity meet wraps up, report due Monday

Diplomats 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 ago
Books

Teen activist Greta Thunberg's speeches to be released in a book

Penguins Books announced on Thursday that it will publish a selection of the Swedish teenage activist's key speeches.

6 years ago
Environment

Species conservation: Some success, many failures

With 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 ago
Environment

Nearly 500 US churches face climate-linked flooding threat, scientists say

Nearly 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 ago
Environment

Climate change forcing Alaskans to hunt for new ways to survive

As 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 ago
Environment

Attacks on Brazil's ecological paradises threaten biodiversity

Brazil 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
Environment

Charity song 'Let Nature Sing' debuts on the UK Singles Chart

"Let Nature Sing" comprises two and a half minutes of pure birdsong, featuring 25 of Britain's most endangered bird species.

6 years ago
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