Experimental geoengineering schemes to protect areas such as Australia's Great Barrier Reef are "distracting technofixes" that violate an international moratorium on the largely untested tech projects, a coalition of nearly 200 environmental groups said Monday.

Indonesia has offered a glimpse of hope for the environment, with its rate of deforestation having decreased for a third year in a row as a result of the government’s response to the devastating 2015-2016 fire crisis, even as global deforestation continues apace.

The first stages of a South Korean government “Green New Deal” aiming to retool one of the world’s most fossil fuel-reliant economies is focused instead on protecting jobs as the country seeks to stimulate a virus-ravaged economy, activists say.

It's not too late to save the oceans from destruction, says the grandson of famed French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. 

Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffered its most extensive coral bleaching event in March, with scientists fearing the coral recovers less each time after the third bleaching in five years.

Absence of tourists may be encouraging rhino poachers.

The government declared my grandfather Herman Johannes a national hero in 2009 for his role in leading the Indonesian Army’s Arsenal Lab during the National Revolution.

A pregnant elephant died in India apparently after eating some fruit containing a firecracker that exploded in her mouth, prompting a criminal investigation into suspected cruelty toward animals.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered a state of emergency and criticized a subsidiary of metals giant Norilsk Nickel after a massive diesel spill into a Siberian river.

The uncertainty surrounding economic recovery after COVID-19 is undeniably shattering the recycling industry as one of the circular economy pillars. Nevertheless, there are programs that can address this.

Vast tracts of pristine rainforest on three continents went up in smoke last year, with an area roughly the size of Switzerland cut down or burned to make way for cattle and commercial crops, researchers said Tuesday.

Indonesia has backtracked on a decision to relax export requirements for timber products months after issuing a deregulation policy that environmental groups criticized for threatening to put sustainable timber trade at risk.

A Siberian heatwave and an early melting season in Greenland are worrying developments as summer approaches in the Arctic.

From collapsing supply chains to power grabs by populist leaders, the coronavirus pandemic has revealed how a crisis can swiftly ramp up wider security risks - a clear warning as climate change looms large, security experts warned on Thursday.

A government plan to create new rice fields in Kalimantan’s peatland wilderness has been met with doubt from experts and farmers who say past experience shows that such a mass-scale project is detrimental to the environment and only small-scale farming on peatland is viable.

Climate activists placed more than 2,000 pairs of children's shoes in neat rows across London's Trafalgar Square on Monday to demand the British government stop bailing out carbon intensive industries that pollute the environment.

China's levels of some air pollutants have risen back to above last year's levels after dropping when the government imposed strict lockdown measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

Antarctica's king penguins emit such copious amounts of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, via their feces that researchers went a little "cuckoo" studying them.

The year 2020 was supposed to be a turning point in the global energy transition. The production and consumption of energy accounts for two-thirds of annual global anthropogenic emissions, making the energy transition central to delivering the promise of the Paris Agreement.

Indonesia needs a regulatory framework that supports its mission to attract green investment, experts say, as awareness about sustainability grows among the general public.

The COVID-19 pandemic allows us to observe a new pattern of behavior in the business world: a blurring of the boundary between business and the society and particularly a deeper integration of public, environmental and commercial (PEC) value orientations.

Bangkok plastic waste up 62% on delivery surge in lockdown.

It has not gotten much attention with the world focused on coronavirus, but deforestation has surged in the Amazon rainforest this year, raising fears of a repeat of last year's record-breaking devastation -- or worse.

Oceans are likely to rise as much as 1.3 meters by 2100 if Earth's surface warms another 3.5 degrees Celsius, scientists warned Friday.

The world may run out of sand if we do not start paying attention to sand as a resource that needs research, management and governance.

Young people face a "fundamentally altered world" that threatens their human rights and safety unless governments take effective action to curb climate change.

Scientists have solved a lingering mystery about koala behavior - how these tree-dwelling marsupials native to Australia consume enough water to live.

For some, the post-COVID recovery is an opportunity to boost low-carbon development, including a scaling-up of cleaner and more sustainable transportation systems. However, many remain doubtful.  

A recently foiled attempt to smuggle timber out of Gowa, South Sulawesi, is one of a number of cases of illegal logging uncovered since the COVID-19 outbreak began. The Environment and Forestry Ministry investigated at least five other similar cases in April alone and many more over the last three months.

A Zambian farmer's cassava field has brought not just a secure harvest but also a financial windfall, as buyers snap up the tubers to produce ethanol for alcohol-based hand sanitizer.