International brands including Coca Cola and PepsiCo called on Monday for a global pact to combat plastic pollution that includes cuts in plastic production, a key growth area for the oil industry.

The combination of inadequate institutional capacity, greed and corruption resulted in the issuance of thousands of overlapping mining concessions.

Turkmenistan's "Hell" pit has been ablaze since 1971 and previous attempts to put it out have been unsuccessful. 

Sri Lanka paid a Chinese company $6.8 million despite rejecting its shipment of organic fertiliser as substandard.

The city declared a "war on pollution" after winning the Olympics bid in 2015, shutting down dozens of coal plants and relocating heavy industries in order to shed its status as one of the world's most polluted cities.  

A jaguar named Jatobazinho was released into a national park in Argentina Friday as part of a program to boost the numbers of this endangered species.

India's tiger conservation body said 126 of the endangered big cats died in 2021, the most since it began compiling data a decade ago.

There are plenty of opportunities for Indonesia and South Korea to work together in the green sector, including sharing greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

In addition to keeping the concession away from fires, illegal logging to encroachment, the concession owner needs to restore the forest into its original ecosystem. 

The captain and first mate of a freighter that crashed into a coral reef off Mauritius, unleashing the Indian Ocean archipelago's worst environmental disaster, were sentenced to 20 months in jail.

Indonesia is starting to reap more economic benefits as it implements circular economy principles, although the country still has a lot of room to improve its waste collection and management, a ministry official has said.

With hundreds of mountain gorillas in residence, the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda is a conservation triumph. But this resurgence is not without consequences.

Nepal’s largest stupa, one of the holiest pilgrimage sites in Tibetan Buddhism, was festooned with biodegradable prayer flags after devotees replaced the synthetic ones with a greener alternative. 

With Arctic sea ice shrinking at record levels due to global warming, killer whales move further north and risk creating an "ecological imbalance" by preying on endangered species.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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. 

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

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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

"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.

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.