The recently passed Job Creation Law is expected to boost foreign investment into the country but risks of environmental destruction and a lack of skilled labor could deter potential investors, experts and foreign investors have said.

Ministers representing various portfolios from finance to labor and small businesses and the environment joined the briefing, each of them speaking from behind their masks as concern rose among the public about the implications of the law, passed on Monday by the House of Representatives.

Labor, environmental and human rights activists have spoken out against the recently passed omnibus law on job creation, saying it rolls back social protection and may violate international human rights agreements.

The world's sea floor is littered with an estimated 14 million tons of microplastics, broken down from the masses of rubbish entering the oceans every year, according to Australia's national science agency.

Supermarkets, food manufacturers and restaurant chains under pressure from campaigners over their environmental impact urged Britain on Monday to strengthen a plan to stop tropical forests from being cut down to grow cocoa, palm oil and soy.

The Indonesian diet and agricultural land use system incur “hidden” health and environmental costs associated with nutrition-related health problems and environmental degradation, researchers have suggested.

Guterres is not the only one raising the alarm about the future of democracy and human rights, with democracy-focused organizations all around the world expressing equal concern.

The collaboration marks GPSEA’s 20th anniversary.

The funds collected will be given to Soraya Research Station, which overlooks a forest area of 500 hectares in Leuser, Aceh.

It has been over two years since the government set a moratorium on new palm oil development, but environmentalists say the move has failed to bring about much-needed change in the governance of the lucrative export commodity.

Companies yield $14 in return for every $1 invested in reducing food loss and waste, including by measuring waste and changing packaging.

Global warming is making the oceans more stable, increasing surface temperatures and reducing the carbon they can absorb, according to research published Monday by climate scientists who warned that the findings have "profound and troubling" implications. 

When 8-year-old Indian climate change activist Licypriya Kangujam is older, she wants to launch a solo mission to the moon to research ways to save planet earth.

Lance Lau, an 11-year-old Hong Kong climate activist, has been called the Chinese territory's answer to Greta Thunberg.

Taking them on field trips could be part of this education process; no better way of learning than visiting the nearest landfills.

Two days was all it took for the record fires sweeping the Pantanal to reduce 90 percent of the hotel grounds to ashes.

United under Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, young people rallied across the world on Friday to demand urgent action to halt catastrophic climate change, in their first global action during the coronavirus pandemic.

British television naturalist David Attenborough joined Instagram on Thursday at the age of 94, quickly racking up more than one million followers in his first few hours.

The rainforest and animals thrived during five months of movement restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the Indian Ocean island nation.

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg said the foundation set up in her name would donate 150,000 euros ($175,000) to charities working to support "people on the frontlines of the climate crisis in Africa".

Indonesia will host the 2020 Caretakers of the Environment International (CEI) Conference, an annual conference where global participants comprising teachers and students discuss solutions to environmental problems. 

US government scientists reported that the Arctic Ocean's floating ice cover has shriveled to its second lowest extent since satellite records began in 1979.

Taking better care of nature could absorb many more climate-changing emissions - but will only work if big companies simultaneously slash their own emissions and focus on boosting biodiversity, not just planting trees.

The film "David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet" sets out his "witness statement" on the destruction of the environment and ideas on how humans can still put it right.

Wallace-Wells remorselessly delineates the notorious impact of human-induced disasters in a worst-case scenario. He spells out the adverse effects of climate crisis in his book’s first line as “worse, much worse than you think”. 

Climate campaigners unveiled a huge countdown clock on Saturday, showing how little time is left before global temperatures hit a critical high, to kick off a week of climate action in New York.

Croatian marine biologists are struggling to save the largest Mediterranean clam from extinction after a precipitous fall in numbers which they say was probably caused by a deadly pathogen.

Leaders of a youth climate strike movement launched by teen activist Greta Thunberg said they will return to mass protests next week, as wildfires and other climate threats surge around the planet.

Climate change is real, man-made and something we need to deal with smartly. But the claim that the fires are caused by climate change is dramatically misleading and steers us toward the worst way to help.

Radiation from mobile phones could have contributed to the dramatic decline in insect populations seen in much of Europe in recent years, a German study showed Thursday.