Berlin's latest zoo celebrity, a fluffy polar bear cub, made her first tentative steps on the public stage Friday, with media hungry to anoint her the rightful successor to late lamented superstar Knut.

Thousands of school students walked out of class across New Zealand on Friday kicking off a global student strike against government inaction on climate change.

The Dumai Police in Riau are investigating 22 separate wildfires, including one that occurred on land owned by the local subsidiary of United States oil company Chevron

Among the environmental groups that protested the project were the OIC, Center of Orangutan Protection (COP) and Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP)

There have been regulations that make green buildings mandatory, but there’s no demand from the market.

Air pollution causes 790,000 premature deaths every year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide, doubling recent assessments, according to a study released Monday.

The appeal petition was filed on Wednesday by Walhi’s North Sumatra office director Dana Prima Tarigan, who was accompanied by a number of lawyers.

Students around the world are expected to skip school on March 15 in order to demonstrate against climate change, taking their cue from Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg.

Tens of thousands of people marched through the heavy rain in Amsterdam Sunday, calling on the Dutch government to act to counter the effects of climate change.

Since 2013, ice sculptors have flocked to the Slovak Tatra mountain hamlet of Hrebienok every winter to build a Tatra Ice Temple, or scaled-down replica of a famous church using only crystal-clear ice blocks.

New Delhi was the world’s most polluted capital city in 2018, two groups monitoring air pollution said on Tuesday in a study of the amount of fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 in 61 capital cities around the world.

Only 30 percent of all regional administrations have what the government considers a feasible waste management plan.

As Russia increases its footprint in the Arctic, pursuing energy projects, Northern Passage navigation and strategic military interests, experts expect more clashes between humans and bears.

The world’s second-largest producer will cap the area at around 6 million hectares (14.8 million acres), Minister of Primary Industries Teresa Kok said in an interview Friday. That’s up from 5.85 million hectares at the end of last year, which will give some leeway to growers who are in the middle of replanting or who have already bought land, she said.

Bogor Mayor Bima Arya said the city, located approximately 60 kilometers from Jakarta, was preparing to house one of Indonesia's first waste-to-fuel plants.

The Yogyakarta Environment Agency has received an Air Quality Monitoring System (AQMS) from the Environment and Forestry Ministry. The system monitors in real time the level of air quality.

Most regions still use open-dumping landfills. According to 2018 Environment and Forestry Ministry data, more than half of Indonesia’s landfills operate as open-dumping sites. 

Using the slogan “Less Waste More Jazz”, the campaign includes giving out products to visitors such as stainless steel straws and reusable shopping bags.

Jakarta is drafting an action plan called Ikhtiar Jakarta (Jakarta Endeavor) to be a model city of emissions reduction.

Waste Less Films Weekend is screening three documentaries – Albatross, Trashed and Blue – to show audiences how waste impacts the environment.

In just 100 years, the emblematic stone sculptures that guard the coastline of Easter Island could be little more than simple rectangular blocks, conservation experts are warning.

Every 20 minutes, the equivalent of a 10-ton truckload of plastic is dumped into the waters around Indonesia. Globally, if this problem goes unchecked, there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish by 2050.

American scientists have developed a more effective and greener way to recycle the single-use plastics made from a common polyester material, which could help pretect oceans from plastic waste by jumpstarting the recycled plastics market.

For almost a century, the inhabitants of Robinson Crusoe -- named for literature's most famous castaway -- have known that their island's fragile ecosystem depends on them conserving its unique wildlife. 

Animals living in the deepest ocean trenches have been found with plastic fragments in their gut, according to new research published Wednesday showing how manmade pollution reaches into the bowels of the planet.

He said the lizards were not as big as they used to be, attributing this to a decline in the local deer population due to poaching.

A professor at Bogor Agricultural University's Faculty of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Etty Riani, said hazardous compounds from the Jakarta Bay could harm those who eat its seafood, which may lead to paralysis, physical disabilities and cancer, just like what happened in Minamata, Japan, in the 1950s.

Where is the century heading? There is great uncertainty in many parts of the world, with an intercontinental drift of people from the South to the North, as well as the perennial religion-based problems and wars in the Middle East and other locations spurring a move to safety in the West.

Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country’s largest Muslim organization, will hold its consultation meeting and grand conference with the theme “Strengthening Ukhuwah Wathaniyah [national brotherhood] for the People’s Sovereignty” from Feb. 27 to March 1 in Miftahul Huda Al-Azhar Islamic boarding school in the West Java town of Banjar.

New research found that if you're switching from a takeaway coffee cup to a reusable option, choosing one which is also antimicrobial could be safer than an ordinary plastic reusable cup.