Once a familiar sight in wetlands across the archipelago, the iconic duck known as ‘mentok rimba’ is disappearing fast, driven largely by habitat loss and hunting.
2 days ago"Today... rainfall is high. It's okay for planting, but it's uncertain for harvesting. It's often unpredictable," farmer Jauhar Mahmud, 61, told AFP.
3 days ago"Last summer's average temperature in Lapland, or northern Fennoscandia, was the highest in both direct observations which we have from the late 1800s onwards and so-called indirect tree ring observations, of which the longest time series extends to 2,000 years ago," Mika Rantanen, researcher at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, told AFP.
6 days agoAnother sandstorm that descended Monday on climate-stressed Iraq sent at least 4,000 people to hospital with breathing problems.
2 years agoPeople find it difficult to forgive President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo for his failure to bring down the price despite his bold decision to ban exports of palm oil until domestic supply is secured at an affordable price.
2 years agoAn animal hospital in Ahmedabad, India, has treated around 2,000 birds over the past month, many weak and severely dehydrated due to the heatwave in the country.
2 years agoIraq was yet again covered in a thick sheet of orange as it suffered the latest in a series of dust storms that have become increasingly common.
3 years agoParis is aiming to redevelop the area around the Eiffel Tower, but the city's residents are beginning to rebel over a plan that would see 22 trees ripped up.
3 years agoUS actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio has openly criticized Bolsonaro since he took office in 2019, particularly for his management of fires in the Amazon rainforest.
3 years agoIn New Delhi, a burning rubbish dump choked residents for a third day with temperatures crossing 45 Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in parts of South Asia.
3 years agoThe government has revealed in a joint announcement that Indonesia is hosting the inaugural BloombergNEF Net Zero Summit in Bali, just days ahead of the 2020 G20 Summit in November.
3 years agoHumans need to be made aware and constantly reminded that we are currently “borrowing” this planet from our children and grandchildren.
3 years agoEnvisioned as a lush fortress against worsening desertification and sand storms, the "green belt" of Iraq's Karbala stands as a wilted failure.
3 years agoIndia is tapping a new energy source that helps clean up cities and is already providing a vital revenue stream for poor Indian farmers: bovine manure.
3 years agoIt’s hard to ignore the existing “energy-guzzling” narrative that’s been relegated to NFTs and its underlying blockchain technology.
3 years agoThe scale of the would-be hazardous waste underscores the ongoing move within the government to reexamine a rule banning the exports of radioactive waste at a time when few municipalities are willing to accept such waste.
3 years agoAt the very least, Christians are challenged to think globally for the sake of caring for the Earth, the common home afflicted by this ecological crisis and to act locally according to their respective contexts.
3 years agoSixty percent of cactus species will wind up in less hospitable climates over the coming decades as global warming sets in, challenging the long-held assumption that desert plants will thrive with more heat.
3 years agoAs digital and green economies increasingly become the norm, our human capital must be digitally literate and understand the interlinkages between economic, environmental and social concerns.
3 years agoHalf a year of intense and destructive rain throughout Ecuador has left 57 dead and 110 injured.
3 years agoThere are now 50,000 known different species of spider crawling the Earth, and there might be another 50,000 out there.
3 years agoThailand on Wednesday banned styrofoam packaging and single-use plastics from national parks as it fights a scourge of waste threatening wildlife.
3 years agoWith 70 percent of humanity predicted to be living in urban areas by 2050, UN climate experts see a huge opportunity to create ideal cities that are walkable, leafy and energy efficient.
3 years agoA loosely federated network of scientists in more than two dozen countries plan acts of civil disobedience starting this week to highlight the climate crisis.
3 years agoThe death toll from torrential downpours that triggered flash floods and landslides in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state rose to 16, with three people still missing.
3 years agoMorocco's village of Inzerki is proud to claim it has the world's oldest and largest collective beehive, but the colonies have collapsed amid crippling drought.
3 years agoThe World Wide Fund for Nature estimates fewer than 80 Sumatran rhinos remain in the world, mainly in Sumatra and Kalimantan.
3 years agoAs Fukushima fades into the past, Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, wishes to forge ahead with nuclear energy. The government plans to use the first nuclear power plant to supply national electricity by 2040.
3 years agoEnvironmentalists are not impressed because they believe the strategy shows that the government still does not want to fully stop deforestation despite pressure from environmental groups.
3 years agoAustralia last year dodged an "in danger" listing for the reef, a World Heritage site, for a second time, after heavy lobbying by Canberra led UNESCO to postpone a decision to this year.
3 years agoThe Department of Conservation said 29 long-finned pilot whales were already dead when the pod of 34 marine mammals was found at remote Farewell Spit on the South Island late Thursday.
3 years agoWhen the South African artist vonMash started thinking about selling his work as crypto-art on a blockchain, he hesitated.
3 years agoRenewables like solar and wind are far more reliable and readily available, and among the cheapest energy sources that can tackle the urgency of the climate crisis.
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