With many people currently staying at home most of the time to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Jakarta has reported a slight improvement in air quality. Experts have urged the authorities to use the opportunity to redesign human activities and city development to achieve a lasting effect.

Zero-waste cooking emphasizes repurposing edible scraps into soups, stocks, and reducing waste.

The orphaned baby elephants ambled in for their morning feed at Kenya's Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (SWT), but the hundreds of visitors who would normally be waiting to watch them were absent. So were their dollars.

Global warming will cause "catastrophic" biodiversity loss across the world if greenhouse gas emissions aren't curbed, with some ecosystems liable to collapse as soon as 2030, according to new research into where and when die-offs may occur.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record, scientists said Tuesday in a dire warning about the threat posed by climate change to the world's largest living organism.

The House of Representatives narrowly escaped public scrutiny last week after it shelved a plan to deliberate a contentious mining law revision amid physical distancing measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, but activists remain unconvinced that lawmakers won’t revive the plan again in the future.

Carbon dioxide emissions could fall by the largest amount since World War II this year as the coronavirus outbreak brings economies to a virtual standstill, according to the chair of a network of scientists providing benchmark emissions data.

A new generation of young Brazilians from the Amazon region are seeking to reshape the fight for the world's largest rainforest, which is shrinking before their eyes.

The coronavirus pandemic is a preview of the types of global health threats that will emerge as the planet becomes hotter, and how it is tackled has implications for dealing with climate threats as well.

Today, the world's pangolin species are listed as either vulnerable or critically endangered. The pangolin is considered the most-trafficked animal on the planet -- the victim of mass poaching for bushmeat and sales of its scales. 

Even the world's coldest continent is not immune to rising global temperatures, with scientists recording the first ever heatwave event in Antarctica over the 2019-20 summer period.

We realize now that those infectious diseases are not only spreading faster, but they appear to be emerging more quickly than ever before. 

Cities under lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus are making more room on their streets for pedestrians, fulfilling a long-standing demand by residents for more walkability that could be hard to reverse, urban experts said on Monday.

As humans retreat into their homes as more and more countries go under coronavirus lockdown, wild animals are slipping cover to explore the empty streets of some of our biggest cities.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered "very widespread" damage after rising sea temperatures caused the third mass coral bleaching events in five years.

The earth continues to warn us that human progress cannot come at the expense of environmental degradation. As we make gains, it is our responsibility to advocate for measures that protect the planet – to urgently improve waste management, increase resilience against natural disasters and adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change.

A new United Nations report has warned that countries in the Asia and Pacific region are not on track to achieve any of the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and are in some cases even going in the “wrong direction”.

Air quality is improving in countries under coronavirus quarantines, experts say, but it is far too early to speak of long-term change.

Last year, at least 11 Indonesian provinces were affected by the worst drought the country faced since 2015, with several regencies driven to declare emergency.

Using water more efficiently in everything from daily life to agriculture and industry would help reduce planet-warming emissions and curb climate change - a potential benefit that has yet to be widely recognized.

Extinction Rebellion (XR) is looking for new ways to make a mark, from taking its campaigns online to using its networks to battle the virus.

The Environment and Forestry Ministry has complained that a lack of certification in environmental matters among judges remains one of the biggest obstacles to law enforcement in environmental damage cases, including those involving land and forest fires.

Shopping online in some cases may be better for the environment.

McDonald's pledged on Tuesday to end the use of plastic found in toys served with children's "Happy Meals" in the UK and Ireland by the beginning of 2021.

Year after year, the UN ratcheted up the fear level to where we hear daily of the absurd “existential threat of climate change”, warning that if we do not eliminate the use of natural gas, coal and oil, the end of life on Earth is just around the corner.

The misconception that electric cars are close to taking over and will solve climate change is dangerous, because it directs our attention away from the technological breakthroughs in green energy generation needed to reduce rising temperatures — and away from innovations needed to cut air pollution.

Wearing your clothes could be releasing more microfibers into the environment than washing them, according to new research.

The old men want war, but the younger ones are holding them back. That generation divide was clear among the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau tribe, who live deep in the Brazilian Amazon.

Large ecosystems such as the Amazon rainforest and coral reefs could collapse faster than scientists had previously assumed.

Kenya's only female white giraffe and her calf have been killed by poachers, in a major blow for the rare animals found nowhere else in the world.