The sound of an electric saw rips through a lush mountain landscape in southern Yemen, where years of conflict and soaring prices have left people desperate for fuel and income.

There they were: a pair of blue Nike running shoes with a tracking device hidden in one of the soles.

Ajay Banga, US President Joe Biden's pick to run the World Bank, will face a tough slate of issues around the institution's finances and capital structure from the get-go, thorny problems he must address as he reshapes the bank into a force for combating climate change on top of its traditional role as a poverty fighter.

Indonesia is nearing the completion of a national carbon-trading mechanism, but for the measure to be effective, the country needs to begin tightening emissions quotas for coal-fired power plants, an expert says.

Leading companies have stepped up their physical risks analytics and adapted their strategy, operations, and supply chain.

Every few days, they leave home at dawn to row about two kilometers (1.2 miles) in a fishing boat to the mangroves, where they crawl through gnarly branches knee-deep in mud, digging for the delicacy by hand.

Although the governor of Jakarta has issued a regulation obligating vehicles to undergo emissions tests, its full implementation still requires a comprehensive plan from various policymakers. This is part two of a two-part story.

Despite the country’s good progress in addressing climate change, two recent surveys have shown many Indonesians do not understand climate change or its causes.

By promoting a circular-economy policy Indonesian people can make Indonesia even more captivating and attractive for tourists.

Although the governor of Jakarta has issued a regulation obligating vehicles to undergo emissions tests, its full implementation still requires a comprehensive plan from various policymakers. This is part one of a two-part story.

Ankle-deep in muck, Brazilian domestic worker Patricia da Silva picks her way through the debris and mud of what used to be her home.

Thousands of Japanese fans on Sunday bade farewell to four beloved pandas which will be returned to China this week.

Rescue workers have saved hundreds of trapped cats, dogs, rabbits and birds in the Turkish city of Antakya devastated by last week's 7.8-magnitude earthquake.

The relaxation of COVID policies adds momentum to tightening Jakarta’s traffic policy. Parking management might help if the public plays along.

UN member states are meeting in New York from Monday with the aim of launching a long-berthed high-seas treaty, a crucial step toward the goal of protecting 30 percent of the planet by 2030.

They were long derided as old-fashioned symbols of grinding poverty, but mud and straw houses are making a comeback in Hungary as a low-cost, eco-friendly alternative to concrete.

The cargo train derailment sparked a massive fire and triggered the release of toxic fumes, including from vinyl chloride, a colorless gas deemed carcinogenic by the US National Cancer Institute.

Colombia's bull-fighting is hugely popular, but some politicians want it banned and have submitted a bill to parliament looking to do so.

Revealing and recording all of Indonesia’s mega biodiversity thoroughly is of course a very complicated task.

Measuring microplastics in humans is challenging, but researchers already have preliminary figures.

Stepping into a "minefield" about how to slow global warming, scientists in developing nations have won new funds to study whether dimming sunshine by mimicking volcanic eruptions can be a sufficiently safe way to temporarily cool a hotter planet.

The Central Queensland Coal owned mine is in the Styx Coal Basin, just off the coast of central Queensland.

How do we go from protecting eight percent of marine areas to 30 percent in less than 10 years? This question is at the heart of a global forum in Canada this weekend.

As devastating storms pounded California, nature lovers feared for endangered monarch butterflies that winter there as part of a seemingly magical migration pattern.

It comes after two separate tiger attacks in the same Sumatran town over the past week left at least four people seriously injured.

For male northern quolls, sex is a death sentence.

Experts interviewed by AFP outlined six key things that motivate people to deny climate change or seek to delay action.

Popular topics included the false claims that CO2 does not cause climate change or that global warming is not caused by human activity, said Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD), a coalition of campaigners, in a report.

The EU's ambassadors to Indonesia and ASEAN emphasized that the bloc would continue to pursue diplomatic means to establish productive and sustainable cooperation in Southeast Asia.

As rising waters fuel fears that Venice may one day be entirely submerged, local children are being educated on how to protect the lagoon.