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Environment

Sumatra floods were 'extinction level' for rare orangutans

Only scientifically classified as a species in 2017, tapanulis are incredibly rare, with fewer than 800 left in the wild, confined to a small range in part of Sumatra.

1 week ago
Environment

Wildlife trade body rejects new eel protections

The vote came at a meeting of signatories to the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a 50-year agreement protecting the world's most endangered animals and plants, and regulating trade in 36,000 species. ...

3 weeks ago
Environment

What did countries agree to at COP30?

In a win for developing countries at COP30, the final agreement "calls for efforts to at least triple adaptation finance by 2035."  ...

4 weeks ago

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Environment

Biblically mislabeled, Israel's griffon vultures get new lease of life

The griffon vulture is not only ungainly, smelly and endangered: it is also often denied its biblical fame by being mixed up with the eagle.

5 years ago
Environment

World's largest green turtle colony nearly twice as big as thought

The world's largest population of nesting green turtles is nearly twice as big as previously thought, scientists said on Wednesday, after drones enabled better surveys of the animals.

5 years ago
Environment

Trump administration ends ban on killing Alaska bear cubs, wolf pups

The Trump administration on Tuesday overturned an Obama-era rule that barred hunters in Alaska national preserves from baiting bear traps or killing denning bear cubs and wolf pups or other practices that have been condemned by environmental and wildlife protection groups.

5 years ago
Opinion

The planet after the pandemic

Leading economists such as Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern have found that green recovery packages would offer much higher rates of return, more short-term jobs, and superior long-term cost savings than traditional fiscal stimulus. 

5 years ago
Environment

Ocean geoengineering tests violate UN convention: Green groups

Experimental geoengineering schemes to protect areas such as Australia's Great Barrier Reef are "distracting technofixes" that violate an international moratorium on the largely untested tech projects, a coalition of nearly 200 environmental groups said Monday.

5 years ago
Indonesia

Indonesia reduces deforestation rate as researchers urge caution

Indonesia has offered a glimpse of hope for the environment, with its rate of deforestation having decreased for a third year in a row as a result of the government’s response to the devastating 2015-2016 fire crisis, even as global deforestation continues apace.

5 years ago
Global

Jobs come first in S. Korea's ambitious 'Green New Deal' climate plan

The first stages of a South Korean government “Green New Deal” aiming to retool one of the world’s most fossil fuel-reliant economies is focused instead on protecting jobs as the country seeks to stimulate a virus-ravaged economy, activists say.

5 years ago
Environment

There is still time to save the oceans, says Jacques Cousteau's grandson

It's not too late to save the oceans from destruction, says the grandson of famed French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. 

5 years ago
Environment

Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffers most extensive coral bleaching

Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffered its most extensive coral bleaching event in March, with scientists fearing the coral recovers less each time after the third bleaching in five years.

5 years ago
Environment

South Africa dehorns dozens of rhinos to prevent lockdown poaching surge

Absence of tourists may be encouraging rhino poachers.

5 years ago
Environment

Fighting climate change: Inspiration from an Indonesian national hero

The government declared my grandfather Herman Johannes a national hero in 2009 for his role in leading the Indonesian Army’s Arsenal Lab during the National Revolution.

5 years ago
Entertainment

Indian elephant dies after eating fruit packed with firecracker, police investigating

A pregnant elephant died in India apparently after eating some fruit containing a firecracker that exploded in her mouth, prompting a criminal investigation into suspected cruelty toward animals.

5 years ago
Global

Putin declares state of emergency over Siberian fuel spill

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered a state of emergency and criticized a subsidiary of metals giant Norilsk Nickel after a massive diesel spill into a Siberian river.

5 years ago
Opinion

Plastics post-pandemic: Tragedy or opportunity?

The uncertainty surrounding economic recovery after COVID-19 is undeniably shattering the recycling industry as one of the circular economy pillars. Nevertheless, there are programs that can address this.

5 years ago
Environment

Football pitch of rainforest destroyed every six seconds: Study

Vast tracts of pristine rainforest on three continents went up in smoke last year, with an area roughly the size of Switzerland cut down or burned to make way for cattle and commercial crops, researchers said Tuesday.

5 years ago
Indonesia premium

Indonesia backtracks on controversial decision to relax wood export requirements

Indonesia has backtracked on a decision to relax export requirements for timber products months after issuing a deregulation policy that environmental groups criticized for threatening to put sustainable timber trade at risk.

5 years ago
Environment

Siberian heatwave, early Greenland ice melt worry researchers

A Siberian heatwave and an early melting season in Greenland are worrying developments as summer approaches in the Arctic.

5 years ago
Environment

Future shock: COVID-19 failures show need to prep for climate threats

From collapsing supply chains to power grabs by populist leaders, the coronavirus pandemic has revealed how a crisis can swiftly ramp up wider security risks - a clear warning as climate change looms large, security experts warned on Thursday.

5 years ago
Indonesia premium

Mass-scale farming on peatland detrimental to environment, experts warn

A government plan to create new rice fields in Kalimantan’s peatland wilderness has been met with doubt from experts and farmers who say past experience shows that such a mass-scale project is detrimental to the environment and only small-scale farming on peatland is viable.

5 years ago
Environment

Climate activists line London's Trafalgar Square with kids' shoes

Climate activists placed more than 2,000 pairs of children's shoes in neat rows across London's Trafalgar Square on Monday to demand the British government stop bailing out carbon intensive industries that pollute the environment.

5 years ago
Environment

China sees post-lockdown rise in air pollution: Study

China's levels of some air pollutants have risen back to above last year's levels after dropping when the government imposed strict lockdown measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

5 years ago
Environment

Researchers go 'cuckoo' over Antarctic penguin poop

Antarctica's king penguins emit such copious amounts of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, via their feces that researchers went a little "cuckoo" studying them.

5 years ago
Opinion

Southeast Asia’s energy transition needs to accelerate as COVID-19 highlights gaps in resilience

The year 2020 was supposed to be a turning point in the global energy transition. The production and consumption of energy accounts for two-thirds of annual global anthropogenic emissions, making the energy transition central to delivering the promise of the Paris Agreement.

5 years ago
Indonesia

Supportive rules key to Indonesia’s green investment future: Experts

Indonesia needs a regulatory framework that supports its mission to attract green investment, experts say, as awareness about sustainability grows among the general public.

5 years ago
Opinion

How businesses can survive the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic allows us to observe a new pattern of behavior in the business world: a blurring of the boundary between business and the society and particularly a deeper integration of public, environmental and commercial (PEC) value orientations.

5 years ago
SEAsia

Plastic piles up in Thailand as pandemic efforts sideline pollution fight

Bangkok plastic waste up 62% on delivery surge in lockdown.

5 years ago
Environment

With attention on virus, Amazon deforestation surges

It has not gotten much attention with the world focused on coronavirus, but deforestation has surged in the Amazon rainforest this year, raising fears of a repeat of last year's record-breaking devastation -- or worse.

5 years ago
Environment

Oceans may rise over a meter by 2100, five meters by 2300

Oceans are likely to rise as much as 1.3 meters by 2100 if Earth's surface warms another 3.5 degrees Celsius, scientists warned Friday.

5 years ago
Opinion

Roving bandits, looted coastlines: How the global appetite for sand is fuelling a crisis

The world may run out of sand if we do not start paying attention to sand as a resource that needs research, management and governance.

5 years ago
Environment

Young people face 'altered world', say lawyers for child climate case

Young people face a "fundamentally altered world" that threatens their human rights and safety unless governments take effective action to curb climate change.

5 years ago
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