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Orcas (Killer Whale) chase a baitball of herring near Spildra Island, Northern Norway, on November 6, 2025. Between October and January billion of herrings gather in northern Norway fjords to feed. Orcas and Humpback whales chase them to meet their needs of fat and proteins.

Environment

Killer whales: Orcas blow fish to bits 'for fun', study finds

Video released by the US-based NGO Beneath The Waves shows one orca holding the tail of a sunfish, with its fellow whale then charging with full force into the rotund mola, which explodes into pieces.

1 month ago

Environment

Brazil deforestation hits new low in Amazon

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is seeking re-election in October elections, has promised to eradicate illegal deforestation by 2030. ...

1 month ago

Environment premium

Malaysia to host youth summit, music fest in Sarawak rainforest

The Malaysian state is set to host a three-day summit that puts young people at the center of environmental action, followed by one of Southeast Asia's best-known events: a three-day celebration of world music and cultural heritage. ...

2 months ago

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Smokestacks at the Suralaya coal-fired power plant belch fumes into the skies above Cilegon, Banten, on Sept. 21, 2018.

Regulations premium

99 coal plants to kick off carbon trading in Indonesia

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.

3 years ago

IDX president director Inarno Djajadi (third left) and Kehati Foundation executive director Riki Frindos (third right) during the launch of ESG Sector Leaders IDX KEHATI and ESG Quality 45 IDX KEHATI index at the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) building on Monday (20 December 2021).

Academia

Taking a five-step approach to decarbonization in a downturn

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

3 years ago

Elena Martinez and a friend, both residents of the town of Aserradores, Pacific Coast of Nicaragua, take a break while collecting black shells at a mangrove swamp to later sell them to tourists and restaurants in the area, on February 6, 2023. From a young age, Elena Martinez and other female residents of Aserradores, a small fishing community in eastern Nicaragua, learn to navigate the dense mangrove forest to extract a black mollusc from deep under the mud. Every few days, they leave home at dawn to row about two kilometers (1.2 miles) in a fishing boat to the mangrove, where they crawl through gnarly branches knee-deep in mud, digging for the delicacy by hand. While keeping food on the table, the women also help conserve the mangrove -- a natural barrier that harbors countless animal species and protects coastal settlements like their own from floods, tidal waves and hurricane winds.

People

When men won't 'get dirty', Nicaraguan women dig for cockles

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.

3 years ago

Ongoing check: Officers from Jakarta Transportation Agency (Dishub) and cops often stop vehicles on the side of the road and use an application to check whether the vehicles have passed the emissions inspection. (Unsplash/Adrian Pranata)

Environment

Jakarta's effort to increase participation in vehicle emissions test pt. 2

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.

3 years ago

Environmentalists participating in the Asia Climate Rally march to the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry in Central Jakarta to urge the government and businesspeople not to fund fossil fuel exploitation to help stop climate change.

Academia

Many Indonesians still misunderstand climate change – so how can we change this?

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.

3 years ago

Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Kenji Kanasugi visits Bantar Gebang landfill facility in Bekasi, West Java, on April 12, 2022.

Academia

Developing Indonesia’s circular economy from Bantar Gebang trash mountain

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

3 years ago

Inspecting emissions level: A mechanic at Astra Motor center repair shop in Cawang, East Jakarta, carries out an emissions test on a motorcycle. (JP/Wulan Kusuma Wardhani)

Environment

Jakarta's effort to increase participation in vehicle emissions test pt. 1

3 years ago

View of a flood-affected area in the Juquehy district in Sao Sebastiao, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on February 20, 2023.

Environment

'Everything was buried': Brazilians recount storm horror

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.

3 years ago

People look at the female giant panda Xiang Xiang ahead of her return to China, at Ueno Zoological Park in Tokyo on February 19, 2023.

Environment

Japan bids farewell to four pandas returning to China

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

3 years ago

A volunteer for the local NGO Haytap tries to lure a cat into a cage in Antakya, south of Turkey, where many animals are trapped in the rubbles after the February 6th earthquake, on February 18, 2023.

Environment premium

Rush to save trapped animals in Turkish city after tremor

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.

3 years ago

Vehicles pass on Jalan Gatot Soebroto, Jakarta, on May 26, 2020.

Academia

Change driver behavior to beat Jakarta’s traffic jams

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

3 years ago

United Nations headquarters in New York City, US, is seen in this photo taken on Sept. 24, 2016.

Americas

All hands on deck as UN meets to protect high seas

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.

3 years ago

Master builder Janos Gaspar (L) gives instructions to his colleague for mud plaster inside a mud-brick house in Acs, northwestern Hungary, on November 25, 2022.

Environment

Eco-friendly mud houses make comeback in Hungary

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.

3 years ago

Smoke rises from a derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 4, 2023. The train accident sparked a massive fire and evacuation orders, officials and reports said Saturday.

Americas

Residents near toxic US train derailment told water 'safe' to drink

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.

3 years ago

A Garrrochero, horse rider, uses a pole to spin a bull during a Corraleja, in Arjona, in Bolivar state on March 20, 2015.

Art & Culture premium

Colombia's bull fighting custom under fire for animal abuse

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

3 years ago

Water reflects the sunlight in a mangrove forest in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, on Aug. 13, 2022.

Academia premium

The (not so) impossible task of archiving Indonesia's mega biodiversity

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

3 years ago

Workers collect plastic waste as they clean up Kuta Beach near Denpasar, Bali, on Jan. 6.

Academia

How much plastic are we ingesting?

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

3 years ago

A general view of the city of Skopje, seen through polluted air on Jan. 30, 2019, one of the most polluted cities in Europe.

Academia

With cash infusion, developing nations boost sun-dimming research

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.

3 years ago

Branching staghorn coral grows on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, Australia, on October 25, 2019.

Asia & Pacific

Australia denies permission for coal mine near Great Barrier Reef

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

3 years ago

This undated handout photograph released on January 14, 2021 by the University of Barcelona shows an underwater view of a Posidonia Oceanica seagrass meadow in the Mediterranean Sea.

Environment

Protecting 30 percent of oceans a huge challenge for the planet

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.

3 years ago

Monarch butterfly cluster is seen as they overwinter in Eucalyptus trees in a protected area inside Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, California on January 26, 2023.

Environment premium

Endangered monarch butterflies face perilous storm

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

3 years ago

This handout picture taken and released on August 1, 2021 by the Jakarta Government shows a Sumatran tiger locked up in a cage at the Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, after Indonesian officials announced it was one of two tigers recovering from the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Archipelago

Sumatran tiger captured in Aceh after second human attack

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

3 years ago

This handout photograph released by The University of Queensland on January 31, 2023, shows a northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) at Alyangula, Northern Territory, Australia on May 22, 2019.

Environment

Relentless sex drive may threaten survival of quolls

For male northern quolls, sex is a death sentence.

3 years ago

This photo taken on December 22, 2022 shows Lalita 'Nan' Putchim, marine biologist and specialist in coral biology, taking a photo of an outbreak of yellow-band disease on coral formations off the coast of Samae San island in the coastal Thai province of Chonburi.

Entertainment

Politics, cash, fame: what motivates climate change deniers

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

3 years ago

This file photo taken on September 27, 2022 shows a flooded St. Mark's square and St. Mark's basilica in Venice following an 'Alta Acqua' high tide event.

Environment

Climate disinfo surges in denial, conspiracy comeback

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.

3 years ago

Vehicles pass along a road that cuts through an oil palm plantation in Pangkalan Banteng, West Kotawaringin, Central Kalimantan, as seen in this aerial photo taken on Nov. 7, 2022.

Society premium

EU's green policy a priority for ASEAN

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.

3 years ago

Environment premium

Venice recruits next generation in flooding fight

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

3 years ago

Academia

3 ways Indonesia could make 2023 a turning point in its clean energy transition

As we enter 2023, Indonesia should focus on more radical action for its energy transition.

3 years ago

This picture taken on June 26, 2022 shows Musimin preparing to plant orchids in the forest at the foot of Mount Merapi in Sleman, Yogyakarta. Orchids in hand and a bamboo ladder on his shoulder, farmer Musimin scans the forest at the foot of Indonesia's most active volcano to point out clusters of the indigenous flowers he has been salvaging for years.

Society premium

Indonesia receives $103.65 million climate change, biodiversity fund

Indonesia has received US$ 103.65 million of funding allocated for programs related to biodiversity, climate change and land degradation from the multilateral environmental fund Global Environment Facility.

3 years ago

South African influencer Masego Morgan poses for a portrait at a Vintage shop in Simon's Town on December 15, 2022.

Environment premium

Sustainable influencers take on fast fashion

Content creators are promoting sustainable fashion online and seeking to expose the environmental damage caused by huge fashion firms like Shein, H&M and Zara.

3 years ago

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