The long-term environmental and labor implications of nickel mining in Indonesia can be devastating. 

Presidential candidates must convince voters that they prioritize sustainable infrastructure development, which is geared toward the well-being of all citizens. 

Malaysia on Friday warned residents of high pollution levels in most areas on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and the western Kalimantan region of Sarawak, blaming trans-boundary haze from Indonesia, its Department of Environment said in a statement. 

Given past form, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is also capable of a complete surprise in the Oct. 6 announcement.

The court said 9 of its 11 justices rejected the deadline because it countered constitutional guarantees on Indigenous rights to ancestral lands.

Vote-buying has become common in national elections over the last 25 years, despite crackdowns by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

The lack of focus on climate issues might hurt political parties and their politicians in seeking the votes of millennials and Gen Zers, which make up a third of registered voters for the 2024 elections.

Marine scientists say some areas in the Gulf of Thailand have more than 10 times the normal amount of plankton, turning the water a bright green and killing off marine life.

According to the World Bank, 95 percent of Indonesia’s wastewater flows into agricultural fields, rivers, and open drains.

The Suralaya power plant complex in Cilegon, around 100 kilometers west of Jakarta, is presently the largest such facility in Southeast Asia. The complex currently has eight power generation units (PGUs) with a total output capacity of 4,025 megawatts (MW).

Heavy rains caused by the extratropical cyclone have affected 80 cities and left more than 2,300 people homeless and over 3,900 displaced.

These directives rely on the assumption that the EU will have significant market power to increase the bar on environmental and human rights standards for developing-country businesses that are connected to it.

The move comes a little over a year before the 2024 election, as Biden seeks to shore up his green credentials that were damaged by a decision earlier this year to greenlight a project by US energy giant ConocoPhillips in the same area. 

A Javan hawk-eagle has hatched in the Mount Gede Pangrango National Park in Bogor, West Java, according to a report by park officials on Monday.

Unexpected summer rain turned the weeklong, annual counterculture arts festival into a muddy nightmare.

Sadly, many people in the former colonized countries are also proud when they can wear branded names. 

Accelerating low-carbon solutions would be central in strengthening ASEAN’s centrality and its role as a global center of green growth.

Scientists have grown weary over the rising temperatures on the planet and extreme weather from heat waves to typhoons that have swept across the globe in the past years.

The domestic mining and energy industry say the indirect coal subsidies in their current format are insufficient to incentivize investment in coal gasification. 

These are two serious accusations made in public that should not be easily dismissed. One is the destruction to the environment caused by the food estate program, and the other about possible embezzlement and other financial irregularities.

Meta on August 1 started blocking the distribution of news links and articles on its Facebook and Instagram platforms in response to a recent law requiring digital giants to pay publishers for news content.

Japan exported about $600 million worth of aquatic products to China in 2022, making it the biggest market for Japanese exports, with Hong Kong second.

South Korea is scrambling to carry out a budget of 64 billion won ($48.5 million) to prop up the consumption of seafood, adding more funds could be allocated if needed. The size of the budget is to double next year.

China reiterated its firm opposition to the plan and said the Japanese government had not proved that the water discharged would be safe.

Japan and scientific organizations say the released water is safe, but environmental activists argue that all the possible impacts have not been studied. Japan says it needs to start releasing the water as storage tanks are full.

China's foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin has called the move "extremely selfish", saying that the country was deeply concerned about the decision and had lodged a formal complaint.

Even the popular carbon tax scheme still has "loopholes" that allow polluters to emit as much as they can afford to pay in terms of carbon taxes. 

The current carbon-trading mechanism may inadvertently exclude remote indigenous communities from participating in carbon trading even though they have safeguarded the forest for generations.

All of that is now gone, subsumed in flames that killed at least 80 people and destroyed hundreds of houses.

Politicians and pundits call en masse for net-zero policies that will cost far beyond $100 trillion, while producing benefits a fraction as large.