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Rare beauty: A red-breasted parakeet (Psittacula alexandri), locally known as betet biasa, perches on a tree branch. The bird is classified as near threatened on the IUCN Red List as it is frequently targeted by illegal traders.
Rare beauty: A red-breasted parakeet (Psittacula alexandri), locally known as betet biasa, perches on a tree branch. The bird is classified as near threatened on the IUCN Red List as it is frequently targeted by illegal traders.
Environment premium

Rare bird sightings highlight Jakarta Naturalist Walk exploration on urban biodiversity

A white-eye, a small songbird known locally as pleci, was among the interesting birds spotted. The pleci is becoming increasingly rare in the capital due to trapping for the bird trade.

5 days ago
Environment premium

Choking hazard: How North Maluku nickel industry suffocates local villagers

Widely hailed as a critical mineral that helps push the energy transition, the mining and processing of nickel in Central Halmahera regency, North Maluku, brings distress to people living around the mineral’s industrial park.

1 week ago
Environment

Triple-hosted World Cup: Huge ambition at a hefty cost to planet

The largest and most far-flung World Cup kicks off in 12 months with a record 48 teams spread across Canada, the United States and Mexico and skeptics are asking whether its frenzied growth is worth the environmental cost.

2 weeks ago

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Markets

Western countries forge green alliance for getting electric vehicle minerals

Announced at the COP15 talks on biodiversity in Montreal, the Sustainable Critical Minerals Alliance would support these standards for elements like lithium, cobalt and nickel.

2 years ago
Environment

Trending on TikTok: Bandung’s river-cleaning group highlights environmental issues

With over 700,000 followers on TikTok, the Pandawara Group puts waste problems under the spotlight, inspiring others to care for the environment.

2 years ago
Environment premium

Kenya drought leaves wildlife gasping for breath

Animal bones lie along the trails and emaciated trees with yellowing leaves bear witness to the impact of the worst drought in 40 years.

2 years ago
Environment

In Chile, amateur beekeeper rescues hives from coastal tourist city

Chilean scientists have warned of declining bee populations, threatened by agricultural pesticides and the impacts of climate change.   

2 years ago
Academia premium

The emerging pressure group: Women ulema

Diligent lobbying of the women ulema and their persuasive arguments have earned them frequent audiences with decisionmakers, energizing Indonesia’s civil society movement with their mastery of Islam in the face of authorities and loud conservative voices.

2 years ago
Art & Culture premium

How film and TV can help the climate change battle

Fictional films and TV have immense power to shift attitudes on political issues, yet they remain little-used in debates over climate change.

2 years ago
Economy premium

After the G20 Summit, what’s next for Indonesia?

A few weeks ago, Indonesia and Egypt were again in the global spotlight. They hosted global meetings that could hopefully reverberate for years to come and transform climate commitments into real action.

2 years ago
Environment premium

Lights go out on Hungary stadiums, theatres as energy crisis bites

Rocketing energy bills are forcing Hungary to shutter libraries, theatres, swimming pools and even its new football stadiums for winter.

2 years ago
Environment

Hawaii volcano, world's largest, erupts for first time in decades

Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, has erupted for the first time in nearly 40 years.

2 years ago
Environment premium

Chile's unique Atacama desert sullied by world's junk

Chile's massive Atacama desert is a unique and fragile ecosystem that experts say is being threatened by piles of trash dumped there from around the world.

2 years ago
Academia premium

Focus on rural realities – A climate change appeal from Ambon to Egypt

 As young people, we are worried about a crisis that we did not create but one that we have to live with.

2 years ago
Editorial

Cautious COP27

Under the shadow of the global inflation crisis and the Ukraine war, governments and companies have refrained from making big promises during the first week of United Nations climate conference (COP27) negotiations.

2 years ago
Environment

Greta Thunberg says she’s ready to hand over megaphone

Four years after launching her School Strike for the Climate, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is ready to pass the baton to those on the front lines of climate change, she said in an interview on Monday.

2 years ago
Academia premium

Disaster, no more! What Bali can do after flooding

The growth of the tourism industry is one of the drivers of the massive land conversion.

2 years ago
Environment premium

Sinking Alexandria faces up to coming catastrophe

Alexandria, Egypt's fabled second city and its biggest port, is in danger of disappearing below the waves within decades.

2 years ago
Science & Tech

‘Earth is in our hands’: Astronaut Pesquet’s plea for the planet

From his unique viewpoint hundreds of kilometers above Earth, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet told AFP he felt helpless watching fires rage across the planet below, calling for more to be done to protect this fragile "island of life".

2 years ago
Environment premium

Can we save North Sumatran forests with local Batak wisdom?

Passed down for generations, some believe that local Batak wisdom is the solution to deforestation.

2 years ago
Academia premium

Is GDP relevant to measure sustainability?

Amartya Sen, for instance, calls for broadening the term "development" beyond the current narrow focus on economic measures such as GDP, thus it should rather be viewed in terms of the real “freedoms” that people can enjoy such as economic facilities and social opportunities.

2 years ago
Academia premium

G20 needs to advance global sustainability standard for vegetable oils

The campaign in developed countries for imposing exclusive and discriminative standards of sustainability for palm oil, has in some way substantiated the suspicions of trade protectionism in favor of the vegetable oil producers in the temperate zone.

2 years ago
Economy premium

Indonesia introduces three baby-step methods to axe coal plants

There are three options to retire coal-fired power plants earlier: write-off from PLN’s book, a spin-off with blended financing and independent power producer (IPP) refinancing.

2 years ago
Society premium

Caring for mangroves is just as important as restoring them, experts say

Indonesia is betting big on mangrove restoration in its contribution to the global climate change mitigation, but experts say conservation will be just as essential if not more important in maximizing the role of mangroves in mitigating climate change

2 years ago
Regulations

Indonesia to ban RON-88, RON-89 fuel sales in New Year

The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry on Oct. 11 finally passed Energy Ministerial Decree No. 245/2022, which revised Energy Ministerial Decree No. 62/2022 on the price formula to calculate the retail price of gasoline and diesel distributed in gas stations.

2 years ago
Academia

Think global, act local to transform cities and our planet

The blueprint for linking local to global urban sustainability lies in three ways: through knowledge, solutions, and partnerships.

2 years ago
Regulations premium

Licensing, land acquisition issues hold back hydropower development

Hydroelectric power was once slated to spearhead Indonesia’s transition to renewable energy, but despite the abundant potential, industry players are reluctant to invest because of what analysts see as excessive bureaucratic hurdles.

2 years ago
Environment

Polar bear hell: An ice pack that keeps receding

Every year from late June, when the bay ice disappears, polar bears must move onto shore to begin a period of forced fasting. 

2 years ago
Science & Tech

Genetic findings from Siberian caves give glimpse into Neanderthal life

Researchers on Wednesday described genomic findings from the remains of 13 Neanderthals - 11 from Chagyrskaya cave and two from Okladnikov cave in the Altai Mountains of Russia - in one of the largest genetic studies of a Neanderthal population to date.

2 years ago
Markets

World's top finance firms continue to fuel deforestation, report warns

In Indonesia, southeast Asian pulp and paper producers are continuing to expand production, putting the country's remaining forests under pressure.

2 years ago
Culture

English winemakers toast summer heatwaves

Climate change may be helping England's vineyards for now, but the fast pace of transition risks major planning difficulties

2 years ago
Environment

After captivity in Madrid, owl twins learn to live on the wild side

Two twin eagle owls have been released into the Madrid countryside after being born in captivity in the city zoo and undergoing months of training.

2 years ago
Academia premium

New start for Indonesia's development aid sector?

In the most extreme case, the donor's pledged funds could flow back to the donor's home country to cover the overhead costs of the donor's own implementing agency and technical experts. 

2 years ago