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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.

4 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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Art & Culture

From stubs to soft toys, an Indian factory reprocesses cigarette ends

The material is composed of cigarette stubs, separated into fibres and cleaned and bleached after being gathered from the city streets where they had been discarded along with millions of others.

2 years ago
Companies

Nestle plans to cut ties with Astra Agro Lestari over abuse allegations

Swiss food giant Nestle plans to stop sourcing from subsidiaries of publicly listed palm oil producer PT Astra Agro Lestari as the latter faces accusations of land and human rights abuses by environmental groups.

2 years ago
Europe

King Charles III won't attend COP27 after Truss 'objected'

Britain's new monarch, who took the throne when his mother Queen Elizabeth II died last month, had intended to deliver a speech at the November 6-18 gathering, the Sunday Times reported.

2 years ago
Society premium

RI’s new emissions target not ambitious enough, activists say

Indonesia has increased its emissions reduction target to bring its policies more in line with global goals, but environmentalists say the revisions still fail to respond adequately to the climate crisis.

2 years ago
Entertainment premium

Solar to power Greedy Dust, Kolibri Rekords' gigs in Greenpeace collab

The environmental NGO is powering indie labels Greedy Dust and Kolibri Rekords’ upcoming concerts using solar to spread renewable energy awareness among music lovers.

2 years ago
Environment

Swiss glaciers melting away at record rate

Switzerland's glaciers lost six percent of their total volume this year due to a dry winter and repeated summer heatwaves, shattering previous ice melt records, a report revealed Wednesday.

2 years ago
Academia premium

Make Indonesia’s EV metals truly green

The obvious market response has been to seek emissions reductions through plant efficiencies, buying carbon offsets or sourcing from smelters powered by renewables. 

2 years ago
Society premium

Banned Dutch researcher warns of dwindling scientific freedom in RI

A Dutch scientist who is among a group of researchers reportedly banned from conducting research in Indonesia by the Environment and Forestry Ministry for their critical writings says he is concerned about the state of scientific freedom in the country.

2 years ago
Companies

Coal miners face financing squeeze as more banks pledge to ‘go green’

A growing number of mining companies announced their commitment to diversify their business portfolio away from coal, although they still aim to maximize profits from coal production. 

2 years ago
Archipelago

Tangerang to host regional forum on coastal management

Tangerang regency is set to host the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia’s (PEMSEA) Network of Local Governments’ Forum Summit in October later this year.

2 years ago
Academia

Brazil: 200 years of independence

A comprehensive legal framework for environmental protection has helped Brazil keep more than 60 percent of its original forests.

2 years ago
Environment premium

Greenpeace drops boulders on UK seabed to curb bottom-trawling fishing

Greenpeace UK said it had dropped 18 large boulders on the seabed in a marine conservation zone off the coast of southwest England to prevent "destructive" industrial fishing.

2 years ago
Environment

China heat wave pushes up prices as hens lay fewer eggs

Scorching temperatures in eastern China have pushed up egg prices because hens are laying fewer in a hotter-than-usual summer.

2 years ago
Academia

Indonesian leadership in challenging times

Action on climate change is an international environmental imperative but it is also an economic opportunity.

2 years ago
Asia & Pacific

Indonesia calls for more G20 action on climate change

The call came at a one-day meeting on the resort island of Bali, at the end of a month in which more than 1,000 people died in Pakistan from flooding blamed on climate change and a crippling drought exacerbated by a record heat wave spread across half of China.

2 years ago
Community

Women in Indian village take fight for access to water into their own hands

For Suraj Prajapati, a mother of two who lives in the arid northern Indian state of Rajasthan, fighting for access to clean drinking water at her doorstep required extraordinary measures.

2 years ago
Jakarta premium

Jakarta struggles as climate change disrupts water balance

Jakartans — especially those living in areas unreached by the city’s pipe network — are still struggling to access clean potable water as scientists predict that climate change will disrupt water balance and a harsher El Niño can potentially spell problems for the city’s water resources.

2 years ago
Environment

California set to ban fossil fuel cars by 2035

All new cars sold in California by 2035 will have to be zero emission under plans set to be adopted by the state this week.

2 years ago
Environment premium

Half of China hit by drought in worst heatwave on record

A crippling drought exacerbated by a record heatwave has spread across half of China and reached the normally frigid Tibetan Plateau.

2 years ago
Markets

Whistle blows in Germany for world's first hydrogen train fleet

A fleet of 14 trains provided by French industrial giant Alstom to the German state Lower Saxony will replace the diesel locomotives on the 100 kilometers of track connecting the cities of Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervoerde and Buxtehude near Hamburg.

2 years ago
Economy premium

Coal far from ‘dead’: prices to remain high, IPO still lucrative

Coal will still become one of Indonesia’s key growth drivers in years to come, despite a steady shift to renewable energy, as the ‘black gold’ commodity prices are poised to remain elevated due to robust demand amid supply disruptions.

2 years ago
Community premium

'We are divided': lake upends life for tiny Kenyan tribe

Three years ago, Kenya's Lake Turkana started rising dramatically, lapping at the El Molo's dome-shaped huts draped in dry fish, then pushing inland, forcing villagers to higher ground.

2 years ago
Environment premium

Women of Sangihe island lead the battle against mining exploitation

The women of North Sulawesi’s Sangihe Island stand on the frontlines in battles against corporations aiming to exploit their homeland.

2 years ago
Europe

Fear for future after mass die-off of fish in Poland's Oder river

As Widuchowa's residents searched for tools to remove the lifeless bodies from the the river, the government began crisis response that many scientists say came too late.

2 years ago
Environment premium

Are eco-friendly bricks the future of Indonesia's building material?

Eco-friendly building materials can be a solution to minimize plastic waste, but challenges, including costly production, persist.

2 years ago
Environment premium

Iraq's Garden of Eden now 'like a desert'

The reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, Iraq's swamplands have been battered by three years of drought and low rainfall, as well as reduced water flows along rivers and tributaries originating in neighbouring Turkey and Iran.

2 years ago
Academia

Preparing secure cloud environment in the digital new norm

From the bottom up, the architecture should include security modules of different layers, so that companies can build trustworthy data security solutions on the cloud layer by layer.

2 years ago
Academia premium

Where are we in climate-resilient PPP infrastructure projects?

Incorporating a comprehensive framework on climate resilience, including instruments for adaptation and risk mitigation, can drive public-private partnerships in developing climate-resilient infrastructure so we get it right the first time.

2 years ago
Academia premium

Lessons on conservation from the Long March 5B debris

According to Article 9 of the OST 1967, state parties shall avoid any harmful contamination of the Earth's environment. 

2 years ago
Environment premium

Ice Age footprints shed light on North America’s early humans

Footprints laid down by Ice Age hunter-gatherers and recently discovered in a United States desert are shedding new light on North America's earliest human inhabitants.

2 years ago