Transport systems and companies are now being inclusive and socially geared to meeting society's access and development needs while minimizing the impact on human and environmental health.

Siti Nurbaya said that the plastic products targeted by the ban includes Styrofoam for food packaging, plastic straw, plastic cutlery and shopping bags.

Environmentalists question the government's justification in allowing sea sand export after a 20-year ban.

Sand dredging is notoriously harmful. A number of islets in Thousand Islands regency off Jakarta and in Riau Islands in Sumatra have reportedly been washed away due to the practice.

In his retirement from public office, Sarwono had a particular interest in environmental issues, and he was highly respected by the current environment and forestry minister, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, to whom he offered his invaluable advice.

In the last two decades, China has been the most important partner for Indonesia, particularly in economic development, investment and trade.       

The government lifted a ban this month on the export of dredged sand that was in place for more than 20 years, in a move it claims will bring in badly needed revenue but that activists say will further degrade the country’s vital marine ecosystems.

Microplastics were found in human blood and lungs last year, with the vast majority of participants in a study testing positive for plastic.            

One in six women of reproductive age now have unsafe levels of mercury in their blood.       

In nations from Somalia to Pakistan, the world's poorest and most fragile communities are facing the harshest impacts of climate change - a reality that is driving worsening poverty, potential for conflict and resentment against major polluters.

South Africa will auction at least 10 new onshore blocks for shale gas exploration in the environmentally sensitive Karoo region, a government official told Reuters, as the country eyes alternative energy sources to ease its worst-ever power crisis.

The next deadly virus that spreads around the world could easily come from a bat that roosts in or around the caves being explored by Thiago Bernardi Vieira.

Relief organizations were awaiting clearance from Myanmar's military rulers on Wednesday to access areas of Rakhine State devastated by a deadly cyclone three days ago, and deliver food and medicine to communities in urgent need.

It is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period ever recorded, the United Nations warned.

Users on Twitter and other social media falsely accused Spain's weather agency of engineering a drought, Australia's of doctoring its thermometers and France's of exaggerating global warming through misplaced weather stations.

As global hunger swiftly rises - by more than a third last year - curbing it will require not growing more food but rethinking broader systems of trade and aid, farming's heavy reliance on fossil fuels, food waste and meat eating, experts said.

Farmer Ganpatram Bheda, 66, fears he will lose his two acres of land in northwest India after scarce rainfall and extreme cold in recent years hit crop yields, trapping him in a web of loans with little help from the state to overcome his financial woes.

In Indonesia and around the world, indigenous peoples and local communities (IP and LC) are on the front lines of the fight to save our planet.

In the community’s view, the government’s decision to bring in private companies to the Komodo National Park is just another strategy to relocate them outside the park.

Foreign buyers can purchase carbon credits in Indonesia carbon markets, but they must transact and be registered in Indonesia. 

The coastal area of Kampung Melayu Nongsa in Batam, Riau Islands, has been contaminated by oil spills that authorities have said were from a tanker that caught fire in Malaysian waters on Monday.

The European Union is considering a proposal to quit an international energy treaty that has become mired in climate change concerns, but leave an option for individual countries to stay in an updated version of the accord, a document showed.

Categorically opposing the European Union law will make the government lose sight of the opportunities the law will create for Indonesia to improve its forest management and sustainability.              

US conservation groups announced they are suing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for not doing enough to protect the environment from SpaceX's Starship program.

Bitter and tough, the coca leaf chewed throughout the South American Andes for thousands of years as a natural pick-me-up has been getting an appetizing makeover in Bolivia.

In their homeland in Africa, they are responsible for more human deaths than almost any other animal, but in Colombia, hippopotami have become loved members of the local community.

The country achieved the fourth-highest gross domestic product (GDP) growth among the Group of 20 economies last year at 5.3 percent, and in April the International Monetary Fund revised its forecast for the current year.            

Contaminated cough syrup made by an Indian company has been found in the Marshall Islands and Micronesia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, after a spate of child deaths linked to other syrups in some countries last year.

Thai authorities on Saturday warned residents across large swathes of country, including the capital Bangkok, to avoid going outdoors due to extreme heat.

An elderly patient lies struggling for breath in a Bangkok hospital as Thailand battles a "drastic increase" in respiratory problems caused by a spike in air pollution.