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Rare beauty: A red-breasted parakeet (Psittacula alexandri), locally known as betet biasa, perches on a tree branch. The bird is classified as near threatened on the IUCN Red List as it is frequently targeted by illegal traders.
Rare beauty: A red-breasted parakeet (Psittacula alexandri), locally known as betet biasa, perches on a tree branch. The bird is classified as near threatened on the IUCN Red List as it is frequently targeted by illegal traders.
Environment premium

Rare bird sightings highlight Jakarta Naturalist Walk exploration on urban biodiversity

A white-eye, a small songbird known locally as pleci, was among the interesting birds spotted. The pleci is becoming increasingly rare in the capital due to trapping for the bird trade.

3 days ago
Environment premium

Choking hazard: How North Maluku nickel industry suffocates local villagers

Widely hailed as a critical mineral that helps push the energy transition, the mining and processing of nickel in Central Halmahera regency, North Maluku, brings distress to people living around the mineral’s industrial park.

1 week ago
Environment

Triple-hosted World Cup: Huge ambition at a hefty cost to planet

The largest and most far-flung World Cup kicks off in 12 months with a record 48 teams spread across Canada, the United States and Mexico and skeptics are asking whether its frenzied growth is worth the environmental cost.

1 week ago

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Adored and endangered: the complex world of the Japanese eel

Consumed worldwide, eel is particularly popular in Asia, and perhaps nowhere more so than Japan, where it has been eaten on the archipelago for thousands of years.

3 years ago
Environment

Russia to ban capturing whales for aquariums

Russian activists welcomed a move by President Vladimir Putin to close a legal loophole that allowed the capture of sea creatures, particularly whales, for aquariums and other venues.

3 years ago
Academia

From single-use pads to sustainable underwear

In Indonesia, which lacks proper waste management infrastructure, most waste goes into landfills and/or ends up in our oceans, harming the environment.

3 years ago
Archipelago premium

Fresh calls for oil palm moratorium renewal mount after jobs law ruling

Civil groups say the government should renew the moratorium on oil palm plantations following the recent Constitutional Court ruling against the controversial Job Creation Law, which the government had sought to use in resolving issues arising from the expired moratorium.

3 years ago
Environment premium

Taiwan rushes to contain sudden cane toad invasion

Toads are a symbol of prosperity and good fortune in Taiwan, but the unexpected discovery of an invasive species has officials and environmentalists scrambling to contain their spread.

3 years ago
Editorial

More than just a stadium

Jakarta International Stadium is hoped to be a boon for health, environment and economy.

3 years ago
Environment premium

Purity or power: India's coal quandary

As Asia's third-biggest economy grows, India's hunger for coal is mounting, with aspirational middle classes needing electricity to run their air conditioners and refrigerators. 

3 years ago
Environment premium

Rare hunting scene raises questions over polar bear diet

With sea ice melting, the king of the Arctic may be changing its diet.

3 years ago
Editorial

Law without credibility

This is how democracy works in contemporary Indonesia, where the opposition, hence the checks and balances mechanism, is not functioning. 

3 years ago
Academia premium

G20, COP26 and SDGs: Toward Nature 5.0

Global cooperation is required in order to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, to enhance an inclusive and sustainable economic recovery, and to protect and regenerate nature. 

3 years ago
Society premium

Govt urges more CPG firms to get onboard packaging waste reduction plan

An environment ministerial regulation dated 2019 aims to cut consumer waste by 30 percent and marine plastic debris by 70 percent by 2025, but the mandatory policy doesn't have a detailed provision on sanctions for offending or recalcitrant businesses.

3 years ago
Environment

India welcomes back tourists but smog shrouds Taj Mahal

Foreign tourists have been welcomed back to India after pandemic travel bans but intrepid travellers will have to brave the intense pollution season to visit Taj Mahal.

3 years ago
Environment premium

China's millennial 'new farmers' opt to live off the land

Around 20 million people have joined what China's government terms a "new farmer" movement, some of whom have millions of social media followers as they post on their lifestyles.

3 years ago
Archipelago

Central Java batik-makers turn to mangroves as demand grows for eco-dyes

Gathering a handful of what looks like string beans, the man, a batik craftsman, heads home to make natural dye from them.

3 years ago
Environment premium

Milk, meat and might: in Somalia, 'the camel is king'

"I have five children, and we all depend on camel milk to survive," said Elmi, passing the pot to one of his sons, who took a swig of the rich brew.

3 years ago
Environment

Beethoven-loving donkeys clean up Turkish town

In the medieval Turkish city of Mardin, a herd of cream-coloured donkeys begins its day job collecting rubbish before relaxing to classical music in the evenings.

3 years ago
Academia

Jakarta is sinking. Here's how to stop this

A recent study by the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) stated that, without aggressive effort, around 25 percent of the capital area will be submerged in 2050.

3 years ago
Environment premium

Cheetahs fast running to extinction as cub trade thrives

Every year, an estimated 300 cheetah cubs are trafficked through Somaliland to wealthy buyers in the Middle East seeking exotic pets.

3 years ago
Academia

An open letter to UN secretary-general

Deep-seated inequalities between the Global North and South shape each country’s path of survivability in this era of multidimensional crises, with some winning first and others lagging behind. 

3 years ago
Environment

Toxic foam covers India's sacred Yamuna river

One of India's holiest rivers was coated with toxic foam on Monday, adding to the woes of New Delhi residents already enduring a blanket of thick smog over the capital.

3 years ago
Europe

Massive whale beaches itself in northern France

The fin whale, weighing around 15 tonnes, apparently beached itself after getting injured, a rare phenomenon in the area.

3 years ago
Society premium

Environmentalists decry Indonesia’s unclear stance on key deforestation pledge

Environmental activists have expressed disappointment over Indonesian officials’ criticism of a global pledge to end deforestation by 2030 made at the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, the United Kingdom.

3 years ago
Asia & Pacific

Australia vows to sell coal 'for decades'

More than 40 countries pledged to eliminate coal use within decades during the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow, which aims to cap the warming of Earth since the Industrial Revolution to between 1.5 and 2.0 degrees Celsius.

3 years ago
Environment premium

Protesters demand climate action in global rally

Tens of thousands came to Glasgow Saturday as part of worldwide demonstrations against what campaigners say is a failure of crunch UN climate talks to act fast enough to tame global warming.

3 years ago
Environment

Algerian farmer's olive oil wins global recognition

Alileche left a successful career in graphic design and moved to the Algerian countryside to produce "magic potion" -- organic olive oil that has won him international recognition.

3 years ago
Society

Environmentalists question Indonesia's commitment to fighting climate change

The protest came days after Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar criticised a global plan to end deforestation by 2030 and cut carbon emissions as unfair and at odds with the country's development plans.

3 years ago
Environment premium

'It kills me inside': Activists sound alarm on climate anxiety

As thousands of delegates converged at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, three youth activists around the world spoke candidly of their experience of climate anxiety.

3 years ago
Environment

Art of trash: feting S. Africa's overlooked waste pickers

Across South Africa, thousands of "reclaimers" are helping the country recycle.

3 years ago
Environment

Brazil pledges higher greenhouse emissions cuts

The government of Brazil, much criticized for its environmental policies, said Monday it would cut 2005-level greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.

3 years ago
Europe

Britih Prime Minister says COP26 'in the balance'

Johnson will host more than 120 leaders in Glasgow early next week, before the UN meeting spends a fortnight tackling the grinding work of deciding how to limit temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

3 years ago