Once a familiar sight in wetlands across the archipelago, the iconic duck known as ‘mentok rimba’ is disappearing fast, driven largely by habitat loss and hunting.
18 hours ago"Today... rainfall is high. It's okay for planting, but it's uncertain for harvesting. It's often unpredictable," farmer Jauhar Mahmud, 61, told AFP.
1 day ago"Last summer's average temperature in Lapland, or northern Fennoscandia, was the highest in both direct observations which we have from the late 1800s onwards and so-called indirect tree ring observations, of which the longest time series extends to 2,000 years ago," Mika Rantanen, researcher at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, told AFP.
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4 years agoTeen climate activist Greta Thunberg has denounced the new farm bill adopted by the European Parliament as one that "fuels ecological destruction".
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4 years agoForested areas greater than the size of the Netherlands have been burned in Indonesia in the past five years, with 30 percent of the fires occurring on pulpwood and palm oil concessions.
4 years agoA jaguar badly burned in the fires that ravaged Brazil's Pantanal wetlands this year has been returned to the wild after more than a month of intensive treatment for his burns.
4 years agoThe prison sentence was lower than prosecutors’ demand of eight years’ imprisonment.
4 years agoThe 32-year-old Carola Rackete has been occupying the protected area in Dannenrod along with a group of environmental activists since late September in a bid to prevent the felling of trees to build a section of motorway.
4 years agoThe IMF has raised concern over environmental protection in the Job Creation Law, calling on the government to ensure sustainable growth.
4 years agoThe jobs law removes the minimum relative forest cover to be preserved by the government.
4 years agoA group of European climate activists, including Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, on Monday urged Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to take stronger action against climate change.
4 years agoClimate change and human activity are harming Antarctica and threatening wildlife from humpback whales to microscopic algae, more than 280 scientists and conservation experts say in urging protections for the icy region.
4 years agoDismayed by the plastic waste strewn over their home island of Bali, sisters Melati and Isabel Wijsen have channeled Ted Talks and international conferences in raising global awareness through a youth-led movement to try to eliminate the scourge.
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4 years agoUnilever, the maker of brands ranging from Ben & Jerry's ice cream to Dove soap, is trying to win over customers with a socially responsible makeover, but activists say that some of it is just cosmetic.
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4 years agoTokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc has collected more than one million tonnes of contaminated water since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
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4 years agoAt first glance the apparently barren expanses of the Sahel and Sahara deserts feature little greenery, but detailed satellite imagery combined with computer deep learning has revealed a different picture.
4 years agoApple said its newest iPhones would be produced using recycled rare earth materials, as part of a stepped up environmental initiative which also has geopolitical implications.
4 years agoSwedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday urged EU leaders to "do as much as possible" to step up the bloc's ambitions to reduce carbon output at this week's summit.
4 years agoAustralia's Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half its coral in the last three decades and scientists fear the loss caused by frequent bleaching will compromise its ability to recover.
4 years agoCelebrities from filmmaker Ava DuVernay to Britain's Prince William to the Pope himself issued powerful calls Saturday calling for people to mobilize and unify to confront the climate crisis.
4 years agoGlobal goals to tackle climate change and end hunger by 2030 are within reach if donors and developing nations help small farmers grow more climate resilient crops, access irrigation and tap into social safety nets.
4 years agoResearchers on the world's biggest mission to the North Pole returned to Germany on Monday, bringing home devastating proof of a dying Arctic Ocean and warnings of ice-free summers in just decades.
4 years agoThe mass death of sea creatures in Russia's Kamchatka region was caused by toxins from microalgae rather than man-made pollution.
4 years agoEngineers have built a giant 'vacuum cleaner' to rid a Belgian nature reserve of millions of pieces of plastic litter too small to collect by hand.
4 years agoDeforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell in September for the third straight month compared to a year ago, but destruction remains far higher than before President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019.
4 years agoWith a call to save the planet, Prince William and Pope Francis on Saturday joined activists, artists, celebrities and politicians in a free streamed TED event aimed at mobilizing and unifying people to confront the climate crisis.
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