Some 2.3 billion people across 128 countries breathe in harmful smoke when they cook on basic stoves or over open fires, according to an International Energy Agency (IEA)-African Development Bank (ADB) report that sounded the alarm last year.
5 days agoWhile natural genetic resources -- such as those found in medicinal plants, agricultural crops and animal breeds -- cannot be directly protected as international property, inventions developed using them can be patented.
6 days agoPrimates have previously been seen eating plants or rubbing them on themselves in behaviour scientists theorised was intended to ward off disease or discomfort.
2 weeks agoIslam’s Day of Sacrifice is celebrated by slaughtering livestock, especially cattle, but the lack of attention to animal carcass disposal might leave a bad aftertaste.
10 months agoIt is time to harness the transformative power of poetry and creative writing to ignite environmental awareness through profound and evocative words.
10 months agoAccording to its latest available data, Indonesia recorded 104,000 hectares (256,990 acres) of deforested area from July 2021 to June 2022, down from 113,500 hectares in the year prior to that, according to government figures, which did not include numbers for the current year.
10 months agoWith the scarcity of resources available at their disposal, it becomes even more critical for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to embrace circularity in ensuring their survival.
10 months agoHeavy reliance on a limited range of feedstocks, such as the overreliance on palm oil, hampers energy independence and fails to tap into the potential of diversified locally available resources.
10 months agoThe green economy approach has led to new environmental problems, primarily due to policies that lack a strong scientific basis in biodiversity, strong political and vested interests, corruption and a lack of public transparency.
11 months agoEnvironmentalists have warned that the 2024 election could well determine the fate of the country’s forests, citing previous spikes in deforestation after regime change alongside the fragility of the government’s environmental pledges and achievements.
11 months agoThose most affected by climate-induced droughts risk being trapped due to a lack of resources and networks to migrate.
11 months agoThe dry season has once again exacerbated Jakarta's chronic pollution issue, with the capital routinely topping the list of the world’s most polluted major cities in recent weeks.
11 months agoEuropean Union Ambassador to Indonesia Vincent Piket insisted that Europe “wishes to maintain the palm oil trade” and was keen to help Indonesia and Malaysia acclimate to the new regulation.
11 months agoThe fate of the reef has been a recurrent source of tension between UNESCO and Australian authorities, with the UN agency's World Heritage Committee threatening to put the world's largest coral system on a list of "in danger" global heritage sites.
11 months agoThey have restored to health 11.5 hectares (roughly 30 acres) of corals around a group of 120 islands known as the Spermonde archipelago in the Makassar Strait off Sulawesi.
11 months agoTransport systems and companies are now being inclusive and socially geared to meeting society's access and development needs while minimizing the impact on human and environmental health.
11 months agoSiti Nurbaya said that the plastic products targeted by the ban includes Styrofoam for food packaging, plastic straw, plastic cutlery and shopping bags.
11 months agoEnvironmentalists question the government's justification in allowing sea sand export after a 20-year ban.
11 months agoSand dredging is notoriously harmful. A number of islets in Thousand Islands regency off Jakarta and in Riau Islands in Sumatra have reportedly been washed away due to the practice.
11 months agoIn his retirement from public office, Sarwono had a particular interest in environmental issues, and he was highly respected by the current environment and forestry minister, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, to whom he offered his invaluable advice.
11 months agoIn the last two decades, China has been the most important partner for Indonesia, particularly in economic development, investment and trade.
11 months agoThe government lifted a ban this month on the export of dredged sand that was in place for more than 20 years, in a move it claims will bring in badly needed revenue but that activists say will further degrade the country’s vital marine ecosystems.
11 months agoMicroplastics were found in human blood and lungs last year, with the vast majority of participants in a study testing positive for plastic.
11 months agoOne in six women of reproductive age now have unsafe levels of mercury in their blood.
11 months agoIn nations from Somalia to Pakistan, the world's poorest and most fragile communities are facing the harshest impacts of climate change - a reality that is driving worsening poverty, potential for conflict and resentment against major polluters.
11 months agoSouth Africa will auction at least 10 new onshore blocks for shale gas exploration in the environmentally sensitive Karoo region, a government official told Reuters, as the country eyes alternative energy sources to ease its worst-ever power crisis.
11 months agoThe next deadly virus that spreads around the world could easily come from a bat that roosts in or around the caves being explored by Thiago Bernardi Vieira.
1 year agoRelief organizations were awaiting clearance from Myanmar's military rulers on Wednesday to access areas of Rakhine State devastated by a deadly cyclone three days ago, and deliver food and medicine to communities in urgent need.
1 year agoIt is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period ever recorded, the United Nations warned.
1 year agoUsers on Twitter and other social media falsely accused Spain's weather agency of engineering a drought, Australia's of doctoring its thermometers and France's of exaggerating global warming through misplaced weather stations.
1 year agoAs global hunger swiftly rises - by more than a third last year - curbing it will require not growing more food but rethinking broader systems of trade and aid, farming's heavy reliance on fossil fuels, food waste and meat eating, experts said.
1 year agoFarmer Ganpatram Bheda, 66, fears he will lose his two acres of land in northwest India after scarce rainfall and extreme cold in recent years hit crop yields, trapping him in a web of loans with little help from the state to overcome his financial woes.
1 year agoIn Indonesia and around the world, indigenous peoples and local communities (IP and LC) are on the front lines of the fight to save our planet.
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