Months after thick oil began turning idyllic beaches in Brazil into "black carpets", workers and volunteers wearing rubber gloves race against time to scrape off the remaining fragments ahead of the country's peak tourism season.

India's capital New Delhi was enveloped in heavy, toxic smog Sunday -- the worst levels in recent years -- with hundreds of flights diverted or delayed as politicians blamed each other for failing to tackle the crisis.

There is a shift of trend among car manufacturers in Indonesia.

China's millennials are increasingly pursuing happiness and sustainable living rather than wealth and luxury, award-winning sci-fi writer Chen Qiufan says, insisting the nation's youth are waking up to environmental issues. 

A multinational effort to create giant marine sanctuaries around Antarctica to counter climate change and protect fragile ocean ecosystems has failed for an eighth straight year, officials said Saturday.

The Interceptor has been developed by Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat through his nonprofit organization The Ocean Cleanup in collaboration with Danone-AQUA Indonesia, which has provided the maintenance and research support for the device.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s vision to build Indonesia’s tallest dam in Purworejo regency, Central Java, has been met with resistance from locals. 

The top three companies that produced the most plastic waste, according to the audit, were food producers Indofood, Danone and PT Mayora Indah.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday refused to accept an environmental award, saying the climate movement needed people in power to start to "listen" to "science" and not awards.

Movie nights once required driving to the local video store to rent, rewind and return the latest blockbuster. Now on-demand video content providers offer countless binge-worthy options at the touch of a finger. But experts say the ease of streaming services comes with a hefty environmental price tag. 

In pursuing even greater ambition in President Jokowi’s second term, Indonesia could be a beacon to the world, at a time when environmental leadership is sorely needed. It could also inspire other countries in the region, as well as in the Group of 20, to raise their game.

Russian scientists tracking migrating eagles were forced to start a crowdfunding campaign after their birds wandered into Iran and foreign text messages from their tracking devices depleted the project's budget.

The Jakarta administration is holding a Blue Sky Parade to campaign for the use of environmentally friendly vehicles and to increase awareness of the importance of maintaining the "environmental comfort" of Jakarta, city secretary Saefullah said.

As the brains behind a hydroponics farming system in rural Kenya, 17-year-old Jefferson Kang'acha struggled to get noticed but he now expects the youth climate movement led by Greta Thunberg to bolster other young people on a mission.

According to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), Indonesia has experienced 1,226 forest fires in the last 10 years. Many companies have been penalized by the court but the number of forest fires have only increased, suggesting hardly any deterrence effect on the companies.

The SNIs are aimed at protecting local consumers from low-quality imported products that could present dangers to people’s health and safety and the environment.

Jakarta's residents woke up on Wednesday morning to see two yellow banners attached to two important landmarks, the Aerospace Monument in Tebet, South Jakarta and the Welcome Monument in the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Central Jakarta.

Some 1.1 billion tons of waste — more than 40 percent of the world’s garbage — is burned in open piles, the study’s authors found, contributing more emissions than had been previously known, especially in developing countries like Mexico, Ghana and, yes, Indonesia.

The archipelago has approximately 3 million hectares of mangroves and seagrass with carbon storage equaling 6 percent of the carbon stored in the whole forest biomass in the country. Clearly, Indonesia’s blue carbon ecosystems play a significant role in carbon management.

Can't afford to travel? Guests who go green at a new Finnish resort could reap a steep discount by curbing their emissions, preserving both their budget and the environment.

Global bottled water giants are ramping up trials of easily recyclable aluminium cans to replace plastic that pollutes the world's seas. Sound like a slam-dunk for the environment? Not entirely.

Three Asian metropolises - Tokyo, Beijing and Singapore - are the world's leading environmentally-friendly commuting cities.

Indonesia Eco Film Festival features 13 films that focus on environmental issues, including the negative effects of environmental problems, sustainability and waste management.

The challenge is how to convince ministers that infrastructure is not only for humans but also for animals and their ecosystems. How to convince President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo that the construction of the Sumatra toll road should not obstruct the routes of the Sumatran elephant and rhino migration or their habitats?

In a bid to cut its environmental impact, KLM will reduce the number of flights from Amsterdam to Brussels from five to four from March 2020.

Young activists demonstrating across the world are driving cities to step up action on climate change, not least because politicians keep coming face-to-face with them while going about their business, mayors at a climate conference heard Friday.

The toll road sections will be built atop the existing Jakarta Inner Toll Road section in North Jakarta.

The science is undeniable. But in many places, people don’t need a chart or graph to understand the climate crisis. They can simply look out the window.

British Airways owner IAG said it will achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, becoming the first major airlines group to make such a commitment.

The special public service authority, named the Indonesian Environmental Estate Fund (BPDLH) was jointly launched by three ministries namely the Office of the Coordinating Economic Minister, the Finance Ministry and the Environment and Forestry Ministry on Wednesday.