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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.

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Protecting Indonesian rivers with wayang

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Massive Australia wildfires increased Antarctic ozone hole: study

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South Africans make bricks from human urine

South African researchers say they have made bricks using human urine in a natural process involving colonies of bacteria, which could one day help reduce global warming emissions by finding a productive use for the ultimate waste product.

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Film festival features environment, food consumption

German cultural center Goethe Institut’s Science Film Festival has returned for its ninth edition.

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Handful of states hold fate of world's vanishing wilderness

More than 70 percent of Earth's last untouched wilderness lies in the territories of just five countries--mostly nations that alarm environmentalists with their lukewarm response to climate change.

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Britain should pressurize fashion brands to design clothes that pollute less and are easier to recycle to reduce fast fashion's environmental impact, experts told lawmakers on Tuesday.
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Fast fashion hurts workers and the environment, British lawmakers told

Britain should pressurize fashion brands to design clothes that pollute less and are easier to recycle to reduce fast fashion's environmental impact, experts told lawmakers on Tuesday.

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This handout photograph taken by a camera trap on February 16, 2018, and released by Nepal's Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) shows Bengal tigers in the Shuklaphanta National Park, some 510 kilometers from Nepal's capital Kathmandu.
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Crouching tigers, hidden cameras: Nepal counts its big cats

Thousands of camera traps have helped conservationists track Nepal's wild tiger population, which has nearly doubled in recent years as the big cats claw their way back from the verge of extinction.

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Nature under assault: Key indicators

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An underwater view of a coral reef off Bunaken Island, North Sulawesi.
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Bunaken celebrates Youth Pledge Day with coral planting

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Mangrove restoration only half the story

Mangroves are under the water as well as above it. Similarly, public knowledge of their importance in climate change can be below people’s line of sight and awareness.

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This NOAA/RAMMB satellite image taken at 23:30 UTC on September 27, 2018, shows Typhoon Trami off the Japanese south coast in the Philippine Sea.
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Japan launches environment monitoring satellite

Japan's space agency on Monday launched a rocket carrying a satellite that will monitor greenhouse gases, as well as the first satellite built entirely in the United Arab Emirates.

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Car traffic on the ring road in Berlin on October 8, 2018.
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EU air quality slowly improving but still deadly: Report

Air pollution is slowly easing in EU countries but still causes nearly half a million early deaths each year, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said in its annual report published Monday.

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Members of rock band Slank, Ridho (left) and Kaka (right) during the soft launching of limited edition shoes, Slanked, at fX Sudirman, Central Jakarta, on May 23.
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Slank, Navicula to campaign against plastic waste through song, film

Both bands as well as other local musicians like Jogja Hip Hop Foundation will perform in a concert on Monday at Pandawa Beach, Nusa Dua, as part of the OOC.

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Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti (left) and Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi release turtle hatchlings as part of a conservation campaign on Kuta Beach during a side event of the fifth Our Ocean Conference in Bali on Sunday.
Indonesia

In marine protection, every little bold action counts: Jokowi

Indonesia will push for a joint effort to create a tracking mechanism for the 663 commitments made at past conferences, particularly those regarding marine protected areas.  

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With over 4 percent urbanization growth Indonesia has been becoming more urbanized with over a half of the population living in urban areas. 
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After Nobel Prize: We must reduce emissions of household appliances

With over 4 percent urbanization growth Indonesia has been becoming more urbanized with over a half of the population living in urban areas. 

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Paradise lost: Tourist spots in danger of being loved to death

A list of global hotspots that authorities have moved to protect.

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Environment

Plastics have entered human food chain, study shows

Bits of plastic have been detected in the faeces of people in Europe, Russia and Japan, according to research claiming to show for the first time the widespread presence of plastics in the human food chain.

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India is fighting the far bigger battle with pollution: The South Asian country is home to the world’s 10 most polluted cities.
Environment

World’s fastest growing economy has the world’s most toxic air

India is fighting the far bigger battle with pollution: The South Asian country is home to the world’s 10 most polluted cities.

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Crunchy and tasty, yes, but could carrots also strengthen cement and cut carbon dioxide emissions for the building industry?
Environment

Carrots could be key to making greener buildings, say researchers

Crunchy and tasty, yes, but could carrots also strengthen cement and cut carbon dioxide emissions for the building industry?

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An aerial picture of a palm-oil plantation in Dumai, Riau, on Aug. 9.
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Company retracts suit against IPB expert

The plaintiff filed the withdrawal request during the first hearing of the case at the Cibinong District Court in Bogor, West Java, on Wednesday.

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Workers clean hydrocarbon slabs from oil spill from two ships that collided off the waters of Corsica, on Pampelone beach in Ramatuelle, in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, southeastern France, on 18 October, 2018.
Environment

Saint-Tropez cleans up after Mediterranean oil spill

French workers on Thursday scooped balls of tar off the beach in Saint-Tropez after oil that leaked from two ships which collided washed ashore in the Riviera resort.

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Workers sort disposable garbage from plastic recyclable resources on the conveyor belt at Ichikawa Kankyo Engineering recycle centre in Narashino, Chiba. Plastic waste has been piling up in Japan since China's new policy came into force.
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Plastic piling up in Japan after China waste ban: Survey

Japan said Thursday it was facing a growing sea of plastic waste with limited capacity to process it after China stopped accepting foreign waste imports.

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A still from 'The Meg'
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'The Meg': Great wide line between fiction and fact

The Meg is a larger and angrier version of Jaws – or so its trailer claims.

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Indonesia

Coal plant protesters in Indramayu face trial over national flag incident

Two residents in Indramayu, West Java, who had been protesting the construction of a power plant in their village have been accused of defaming the national flag and are being detained.

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El Yunque national forest in Puerto Rico. After bees and birds, insects and other arthropods have also suffered massive losses, a study from a Puerto Rico forest published on Monday showed, citing the impact of climate change.
Environment

Climate change cited in dwindling of Puerto Rico insects

After bees and birds, insects and other arthropods have also suffered massive losses, a study from a Puerto Rico forest showed, citing the impact of climate change.

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Promoting sustainable tourism one resort at a time

Facing the possibility of severe environmental damage owing to mass tourism, hundreds of industry stakeholders gathered to find the best formula for sustaining the beauty of Southeast Asia’s sandy beaches.

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The last bastion of Sumatran tigers

This year alone, dozens of hot spots, most of them triggered by illegal practices, have emerged in Riau.

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The best and fairest way to cap global warming is to empower indigenous forest peoples, reduce food waste and slash meat consumption, an alliance of 38 NGOs said Monday.
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Protecting nature the best way to keep planet cool: Report

The best and fairest way to cap global warming is to empower indigenous forest peoples, reduce food waste and slash meat consumption, an alliance of 38 NGOs said Monday.

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Big industries and global governments have plenty of control over what happens to our planet. But in reality, it is the everyday person, the consumer, who has the most control. 
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Seven ways to give Earth a hand

Big industries and global governments have plenty of control over what happens to our planet. But in reality, it is the everyday person, the consumer, who has the most control. 

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Fishermen and tourists gather on a beach near the town of Le Carbet of the French Caribbean island of Martinique to lift fishing nets at dawn on July 14, 2014.
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Caribbean to test greenhouse-gas linked ocean acidity

Tourism and fishery-dependent Caribbean nations plan to test the acidity of the Caribbean Sea as a result of increased absorption of greenhouse gases, a senior regional official said Friday.

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Environment

Madagascar guides fret about the future as loggers destroy forests

In Vohibola forest in the east of Madagascar, tourist guide Nabe worries about his future as slash-and-burn farming and decades of logging slowly destroy his livelihood.

7 years ago
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