As they extend their power grids, build more roads and bigger cities, and cultivate forestland, developing countries in Asia and the Pacific are increasingly contributing to the global climate change problem.

Volcanic soil is a more capacious carbon sink than common soil. If all carbon stored in Indonesian soil was converted into atmospheric carbon dioxide, Indonesia would be a crucial country for the mitigation of climate change.

British musician Sting was awarded an international prize on Tuesday for his work to protect the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous inhabitants where a battle over land is becoming more deadly with a spate of killings in recent days.

Devastating bushfires that blanketed Australia's largest city with hazardous smoke this week have heightened public anger and raised political pressure on the government to do more to tackle climate change.

In September, millions of young people on every continent poured into the street to demand action. Today they march in Madrid, where negotiators from nearly 200 nations at UN climate talks are feeling the heat of an increasingly angry and anxious world. 

Countries from Egypt to Mexico could lose 95 percent of their income from coral reef tourism, and parts of West Africa could see their ocean fisheries decline by 85 percent by the turn of the century if planet-warming emissions continue to rise.

More than 50 polar bears have gathered on the edge of a village in Russia's far north, environmentalists and residents said, as weak Arctic ice leaves them unable to roam.

For a group of scientists at Columbia University, corals are a precious repository of clues about the past that may help predict future climate trends. They can also reveal how much and how fast environmental conditions have changed during a certain period of time.

A satellite assessment estimated that 1.64 million hectares burned over the period across seven Indonesian provinces, including 670,000 ha -- 41 percent of the total burnt area -- in peatland. 

Actor Leonardo di Caprio joined former US vice president Al Gore and other personalities Wednesday in backing a new initiative to seek solutions to climate change. 

Europe faces the prospect of severe heat waves every year and a halving of some of its harvests in the future unless rapid action is taken against climate change, a study said.

A video showing a polar bear daubed with painted slogan T-34, the name of a Soviet era tank, has caused alarm in Russia with experts saying it could prevent the bear hunting.

With big restaurants and hotels having a strict policy of not storing food they are unable to sell at the end of each business day, mosques in Jakarta have begun an initiative to collect the food and distribute it to the poor.  

Awareness of and taking steps to address climate change can also help manage “eco-anxiety”, a type of anxiety over the potential for ecological disasters and environmental threats that has been emerging recently.

Experience has shown that without a transparent mechanism, carbon trading will only be a way for companies or countries to escape their carbon responsibility. This is a major task for delegates and nations should they want to put the international trading system in place. There should be a transparent and accountable mechanism that assures these transactions benefit the poor, especially communities living in and around forests.

The Ionian island of Zakynthos is one of Greece's most pristine travel destinations, an environment clean enough to be a major Mediterranean nesting ground sought out by loggerhead sea turtles. But even here, plastic pollution poses a grave threat to wildlife.

American actor Leonardo DiCaprio on Saturday denied a claim by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that he had helped fund groups allegedly linked to fires in the Amazon rain forest.

Tens of thousands of protesters, primarily in Europe and Asia, hit the streets on Friday to make a fresh call for action against global warming, hoping to raise pressure on world leaders days before a UN climate summit.

Hennes & Mauritz AB is testing out a clothing rental service as the fashion industry faces mounting criticism for waste and pollution.

The cruise industry, long criticized for polluting the environment, is slowly trying to go greener by exploring new technologies, from hybrid solutions to high-tech sails.

The “green is the new black” sustainability trend has reached the financial world as investors and financial institutions are slowly turning to invest in environment, social and governance (ESG)-compliant assets in Indonesia.

The technology for Indonesia to reach and exceed its climate action target is available. The financing can be sought. The crucial part is political will. President Jokowi should visibly demonstrate political will and aim robustly if not ruthlessly for zero carbon emissions as his climate policy legacy.

Clothes should be cherished, re-worn and even passed on to the next generation, Anna Wintour, the influential editor of Vogue magazine said, calling for more sustainability in the fashion world and less of a throwaway culture.

Under the cap and trade mechanism, parties are required to keep their greenhouse gas emissions below a certain level, or cap, set by either the authorities or the market. Should their pollution be found to have exceeded the maximum level, they must pay the excess pollution to other parties that successfully maintain their emissions below the cap.

The trucks transport construction materials to neighboring areas, predominantly to Tangerang in Banten and Jakarta, to supply government infrastructure projects and commercial housing developments.

Villagers in Basawang commonly work as coconut sugar farmers, while villagers of the surrounding area in Katingan regency and East Kotawaringin regency make a living by selling green coconut, copra (dried coconut meat) or by illegal logging.

On the hairpin bend of a Swiss mountain pass, a Victorian-era hotel built for tourists to admire the Rhone Glacier has been abandoned now that the ice has retreated nearly 2 km uphill.

From local communities to a hydropower company, all stakeholders are applying the customary wisdom to protect and save the rarest great ape on the planet, the endemic Tapanuli orangutan of North Sumatra.

A one-year-old Javan hawk-eagle was released at the Mt. Picis and Mt. Sigogor nature conservation area in Ponorogo regency, East Java, on Wednesday. Poaching and trafficking laws are poorly enforced in the region, putting the young Javan hawk-eagle in danger.

The last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia died on Saturday, leaving the smallest species of rhino, which once roamed across Asia, surviving in small numbers mostly in Indonesia.