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This photograph shows an industrial prototype in a lime production site capturing CO2 at an Eiffage factory serving as a pilot site for the start-up Revcoo in Haut-Lieu, near Avesnes-sur-Helpe, northern France on June 24, 2025.
This photograph shows an industrial prototype in a lime production site capturing CO2 at an Eiffage factory serving as a pilot site for the start-up Revcoo in Haut-Lieu, near Avesnes-sur-Helpe, northern France on June 24, 2025.
Environment

CO2 in the atmosphere up by record amount in 2024: UN

Levels of the three main greenhouse gases -- the climate-warming CO2, methane and nitrous oxide -- all increased yet again in 2024, with each setting new record highs, the UN's weather and climate agency said.

2 days ago
Environment

World falling far behind deforestation goals with farms and fires driving loss

The report said the world permanently lost 8.1 million hectares of forest, an area about the size of England, in 2024 alone, putting the planet 63% behind the goal set by over 140 countries in the 2021 Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use.

3 days ago
Environment

How did an Indian zoo get Tapanuli orangutan?

An Indian court cleared the 3,500-acre wildlife facility known as Vantara on Monday of allegations including unlawful acquisition of animals and financial wrongdoing.

4 weeks ago

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Indonesia

Indonesia braces for peak dry season after massive 2019 forest fires

The government seeks to double down on peatland fire prevention and law enforcement following the massive fires that ravaged much of Indonesia's forests last year.

5 years ago
Environment

New spider species named after Greta

Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg can add to her list of personal accolades, including TIME magazine's Person of the Year, a group of spiders named after her.

5 years ago
Environment

Popular 25-year-old Ugandan gorilla killed at UNESCO park

Ugandan wildlife authorities have detained four men in connection with the killing of a 25-year-old male gorilla, the leader of a gorilla group and hugely popular with tourists.

5 years ago
Environment

Conservation efforts under our authority, says environment ministry

The Environment and Forestry Ministry asserted its authority in conservation efforts in Indonesia.

5 years ago
Environment

Small islands may not disappear under rising seas, researchers find

According to research published on Wednesday, small, low-lying islands dotted around the Pacific and the Caribbean - often seen as the places most vulnerable to global warming - can naturally adapt and raise themselves above encroaching waves.

5 years ago
Global

Russia says 'years' needed to clean up Arctic spill

Russian investigators on Wednesday detained three staff of a power plant over a huge fuel spill in the Arctic, as response teams warned a full clean-up would take years.

5 years ago
Environment

Biblically mislabeled, Israel's griffon vultures get new lease of life

The griffon vulture is not only ungainly, smelly and endangered: it is also often denied its biblical fame by being mixed up with the eagle.

5 years ago
Environment

World's largest green turtle colony nearly twice as big as thought

The world's largest population of nesting green turtles is nearly twice as big as previously thought, scientists said on Wednesday, after drones enabled better surveys of the animals.

5 years ago
Environment

Trump administration ends ban on killing Alaska bear cubs, wolf pups

The Trump administration on Tuesday overturned an Obama-era rule that barred hunters in Alaska national preserves from baiting bear traps or killing denning bear cubs and wolf pups or other practices that have been condemned by environmental and wildlife protection groups.

5 years ago
Opinion

The planet after the pandemic

Leading economists such as Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern have found that green recovery packages would offer much higher rates of return, more short-term jobs, and superior long-term cost savings than traditional fiscal stimulus. 

5 years ago
Environment

Ocean geoengineering tests violate UN convention: Green groups

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.

5 years ago
Indonesia

Indonesia reduces deforestation rate as researchers urge caution

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.

5 years ago
Global

Jobs come first in S. Korea's ambitious 'Green New Deal' climate plan

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.

5 years ago
Environment

There is still time to save the oceans, says Jacques Cousteau's grandson

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

5 years ago
Environment

Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffers most extensive coral bleaching

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.

5 years ago
Environment

South Africa dehorns dozens of rhinos to prevent lockdown poaching surge

Absence of tourists may be encouraging rhino poachers.

5 years ago
Environment

Fighting climate change: Inspiration from an Indonesian national hero

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.

5 years ago
Entertainment

Indian elephant dies after eating fruit packed with firecracker, police investigating

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.

5 years ago
Global

Putin declares state of emergency over Siberian fuel spill

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.

5 years ago
Opinion

Plastics post-pandemic: Tragedy or opportunity?

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.

5 years ago
Environment

Football pitch of rainforest destroyed every six seconds: Study

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.

5 years ago
Indonesia premium

Indonesia backtracks on controversial decision to relax wood export requirements

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.

5 years ago
Environment

Siberian heatwave, early Greenland ice melt worry researchers

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

5 years ago
Environment

Future shock: COVID-19 failures show need to prep for climate threats

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.

5 years ago
Indonesia premium

Mass-scale farming on peatland detrimental to environment, experts warn

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.

5 years ago
Environment

Climate activists line London's Trafalgar Square with kids' shoes

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.

5 years ago
Environment

China sees post-lockdown rise in air pollution: Study

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.

5 years ago
Environment

Researchers go 'cuckoo' over Antarctic penguin poop

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.

5 years ago
Opinion

Southeast Asia’s energy transition needs to accelerate as COVID-19 highlights gaps in resilience

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.

5 years ago
Indonesia

Supportive rules key to Indonesia’s green investment future: Experts

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

5 years ago