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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.

5 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.

6 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.

1 month ago

The Latest

Global premium

Geothermal energy catalyst for Indonesian, New Zealand relationship

Investment in Indonesia’s geothermal energy sector would strengthen the longstanding collaboration between Indonesia and New Zealand, a senior New Zealand diplomat has said. 

5 years ago
SEAsia

Nearly 450 schools shut as pollution chokes Thai capital

Authorities in the Thai capital ordered nearly 450 schools to close on Wednesday as pollution levels reached dangerously unhealthy levels.

5 years ago
Politics

American environmental journalist detained in Palangkaraya: Report

Palangkaraya Legal Aid Foundation head Aryo Nugroho, who is representing Jacobson, confirmed that the journalist was currently being held in the Palangkaraya Class II detention center.

5 years ago
Environment

Climate change pushing Australia's platypus towards extinction: Researchers

The river-dwelling animal has already disappeared from up to 40 percent of its historical range on Australia's east coast due to the drought, land clearing, pollution and building of dams, which fragment their habitat, the researchers said.

5 years ago
Environment premium

The extended family of Meru Betiri National Park

The partnership was introduced to reduce poverty, unemployment and discrepancy in forest management and utilization by giving local communities access to legal management.

5 years ago
SEAsia

Malaysia says won't be 'garbage dump' as it returns waste

Malaysia has sent back 150 shipping containers of plastic waste to mostly wealthier nations, with the Southeast Asian country saying Monday it would not be the world's "garbage dump".

5 years ago
Environment

Filipinos turn volcano's ash, plastic trash into bricks

Ash spewed by a Philippine volcano is being mixed with plastic waste to make bricks in an inventive response to the country's persistent problems of pollution and frequent natural disasters.

5 years ago
City premium

Ministry aims for holistic flood mitigation

Rehabilitation, including construction of land and water conservation infrastructure, and law enforcement to curb illegal mining and forestry are among the efforts for mitigating future disasters.

5 years ago
Environment

UK's Attenborough says 'moment of crisis' has come on climate

British naturalist David Attenborough said the "moment of crisis" had come in the fight against climate change, warning that governments' targets for decades in the future were not enough to save the planet.

5 years ago
Indonesia

Waste-based power plants worsen air pollution, global warming: Environmentalists

Environmentalists have urged against using incinerators as waste-to-energy power plants to tackle garbage problem in cities across the country, saying that they would cause more environmental problems.

5 years ago
News

Europeans, Chinese, Americans to fly less in 2020 to fight climate change: Survey

Most Chinese, Europeans and US citizens plan to fly less for holidays this year to limit aircraft carbon dioxide emissions and help prevent catastrophic climate change.

5 years ago
Art & Culture

Art installation shows the reality of London's toxic air

Londoners will be able to see how dirty the British capital's air is through a public art installation launched on Tuesday, as pressure mounts to tackle the hidden killer.

5 years ago
Editorial

Fires, floods that unite

The bushfires and forest fires should present Australia and Indonesia with an opportune moment to consider climate issues at the top of their cooperation agenda.

5 years ago
Environment

Makeshift koala hospital scrambles to save dozens injured in bushfires

Dozens of injured koalas arrive at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park's makeshift animal hospital each day in cat carriers, washing baskets or clinging to wildlife carers.

5 years ago
Environment

Australia's massive fires could become routine, climate scientists warn

Bushfires ravaging Australia have provided a foretaste of the kinds of conditions that could become normal unless the world moves rapidly to curb emissions of the greenhouse gases driving global warming.

5 years ago
Culture

Pricey 'American Dream' mall places big bet on retail

For about $30, consumers can ski for two hours on a 1,000-foot (300-meter) hill of man-made snow, the glare of the sun replaced by a metal ceiling in a venue that will be kept below freezing even in the dog days of August.

5 years ago
Environment

Survivor tells of 20 days in freezing Alaska after cabin burned down

Tyson Steele, who was rescued by helicopter on Thursday, said his cabin -- located 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the nearest neighbor -- was incinerated in mid-December, and his beloved dog Phil died in the blaze.

5 years ago
Indonesia premium

No more new plantations in protected forests, rules Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has ruled against an article in a government regulation that allows land to be cleared for new plantations in protected forests and conservation areas.

5 years ago
Environment

Plea for New Zealand to house fire-threatened koalas

Thousands of people have signed a petition for koalas to be introduced to New Zealand to escape Australia's devastating bush fires, but the proposal has been given the thumbs down by officials.

5 years ago
Environment

River people: Life along Asia's key waterways

From the flood-ravaged banks of the Brahmaputra to the disappearing wetlands of the Mekong, Asia's main waterways -- and the people that live along them -- are fighting for survival.

5 years ago
Environment

Eine kleine Eismusik: Take it in on Italy's disappearing glacier

Forget strapless gowns and skimpy dresses. Audiences to this Italian music concert, with instruments made of ice, need to dress for arctic conditions as the venue is in an igloo on top of a glacier.

5 years ago
Environment

Climate change protests stretch to London as Australia bushfires rage

Thousands of Australians took to the streets on Friday to protest against government inaction on climate change, as bushfires ravaged tens of thousands of square miles of bushland after months of destruction and at least 27 deaths.

5 years ago
People

Jane Fonda, Joaquin Phoenix join climate protesters outside US Congress

Veteran activist and actor Jane Fonda was joined by fellow Hollywood stars Joaquin Phoenix and Martin Sheen at the foot of the US Capitol building in Washington on Friday.

5 years ago
News

Peru to plant one million trees around Machu Picchu

Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra launched a campaign on Thursday to reforest the Machu Picchu archaeological site in order to protect it from mud slides and forest fires.

5 years ago
City premium

Jakarta needs to step up efforts or environmental woes may get worse in 2020: activists

A restoration campaigner for the Jakarta chapter of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi), Rehwinda Naibaho, raised concerns that with the current trend, Jakarta may face a worsening environmental crisis in 2020.

5 years ago
Environment

Brave as lions: Zoo heroics save animals from Australia's raging fires

When everyone else in the Australian town of Mogo fled the flames that tore through surrounding bushland, Chad Staples didn't consider abandoning his family. By family, he means giraffes, rhinos, lions and gorillas among the 200 residents of Mogo Zoo.

5 years ago
Environment

South Africa's Desmond Tutu and Al Gore urge end to fossil fuels

Archbishop Desmond Tutu joined former US vice president Al Gore on Tuesday to call on nations and companies to ditch fossil fuels to head off climate change.

5 years ago
Environment

It's official: India just experienced its hottest decade on record

The past decade was India's hottest on record, with extreme heat directly killing about 350 people last year, the national meteorological department's chief said on Tuesday.

5 years ago
Environment

Koala mittens and joey pouches: Australian bushfires spark global knitting frenzy

Knitting needles are clicking furiously around the world to create hundreds of protective pouches and blankets for native wildlife made homeless by Australian wildfires that have razed large swathes of bushland.

5 years ago
Environment

Bangladesh to ban use of single-use plastic in hotels and restaurants

Bangladesh's High Court on Monday ordered the government to ban single-use plastics in coastal areas and in hotels and restaurants in one year to combat pollution.

5 years ago