New data published by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) reveals that the overall 2023 air pollution levels in Jakarta were arguably the worst since 2019. Despite improvements between 2020 and 2022, the rise of pollution in 2023 is a notable setback. Over 29 million people …
CENTRAL KALIMANTAN, Indonesia: Environmental group Greenpeace on Wednesday accused US consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble of responsibility for the destruction of Indonesian rainforests and the habitat of endangered orangutans and tigers. In an extensive new report, Greenpeace said the company was using Indonesian palm oil from suppliers with links …
CERC rules for a higher rate to compensate for the higher cost of imported Indonesian coal, on which Mundra runs Consumers in five states, including Maharashtra, will have to foot higher electricity bills once the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC)’s order providing relief for Tata Power’s Mundra plant gets implemented. …
Narendra Modi’s Gujarat government and other states may challenge the landmark regulatory order asking them to pay for higher cost of imported coal used by Tata Power and Adani Power, but industry executives said the verdict was fair and would help consumers also. After Saturday’s order by Central Electricity Regulatory …
Eleven people have been killed and two others are missing after torrential rain triggered landslides in Indonesia's remote eastern Papua province, an official said on Sunday. The landslides hit parts of Jayapura, the capital of the province, after heavy rains last night, said national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. …
India has overtaken Canada to emerge as the fourth largest country to grow biotech or genetically modified (GM) crops in 2013 as farmers here planted Bt cotton in about 11 million hectares. In the previous year, farmers in India had planted Bt cotton — the only approved GM crop for …
Donor nations, rainforest-rich countries and multilateral institutions will have to spend tens of billions of dollars in the next few years to ensure that nations undergoing deforestation will have incentives to halt the practice, a report released on Monday said. Without the money to buy forest-based emissions reductions, the mechanism …
The death toll from an Indonesian volcano that has been rumbling for months rose to 16 today after rescuers found another charred corpse and a critically injured college student died in a hospital, officials said. Mount Sinabung erupted again yesterday just a day after authorities allowed thousands of villagers who …
Indonesia's Mount Sinabung volcano erupted and killed at least 11 people on the western island of Sumatra on Saturday, the first time it is known to have claimed any lives, a senior government official said. The volcano has become increasingly active in recent months, regularly spewing columns of ash several …
The tropical forests of southeast Asia have been shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years, according to new research. Researchers at Queen's University in Belfast (Northern Ireland), have discarded theories that the rainforests of Borneo, Sumatra, and Java (in Indonesia), Thailand and Vietnam were largely unaffected by humans. A …
Monsoon rains have inundated parts of the Indonesian capital, forcing more than 30,000 people to evacuate and posing a challenge for its wildly popular governor, Joko Widodo, a possible presidential candidate. Soldiers were deployed to help nearly 50,000 residents in the sprawling city of 10 million people, as floodwaters reached …
The number of death toll in flash floods and landslide in North Sulawesi province of eastern Indonesia rose to 13 on Thursday, with 2 people still missing and about 40,000 others fleeing to escape the catastrophe, an official said. Consecutive days of heavy downpours have bloated four rivers and burst …
Over the past year energy subsidies have become a target for politicians on austerity drives. In June Indonesia increased petrol prices by 44% to cut its annual subsidy bill of $20 billion. More recently Malaysia followed suit, in the hope of filling a budget hole which had reached 4.5% of …
If you walk into a coffee-house and see more women smoking than was the case years ago – that picture may indeed be true, says a recently released global study on tobacco consumption. While Indian men increasingly show signs of snuffing out the habit, tobacco consumption among women remains virtually …
The Asian Development Bank, the United Kingdom, and the Rockefeller Foundation are teaming up to help Asia’s fast growing secondary cities protect their urban poor from the ravages of climate change. The three partners have agreed to roll out an innovative programme to help 25 secondary cities in the region …
Deep in the forests of Borneo island, workmen from an Indonesian timber company fell a tree with a chainsaw, stick a red tag with a serial number onto it and attach a corresponding stub to the stump, reports BSS. This is all part of an arduous auditing process, one of …
Tapping the Markets: Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Water and Sanitation for the Poor presents the results of a detailed examination of market opportunities for the domestic private sector in the provision of piped water and on-site sanitation services in rural and semi-urban areas and of the commercial, policy, and …
Economic inequality is rapidly increasing in the majority of countries. The wealth of the world is divided in two: almost half going to the richest one percent; the other half to the remaining 99 percent. The World Economic Forum has identified this as a major risk to human progress. Extreme …
Over 18,000 people in western Indonesia have had to leave their homes after two rivers burst their banks and flooded thousands of houses, an official said today. More than 4,500 houses and 500 shops in the coastal town of Tebing Tinggi on Sumatra island have been inundated since Saturday, when …
UJUNG KULON: On a leaf-covered dirt path overlooking lush paddy fields in western Indonesia, the world's rarest rhino had left a trail of hoofprints in the soft mud and bite marks on foliage. For people seeking a glimpse of the Javan rhino — revered in local folklore as Abah Gede, …
The number of evacuee rose to 3, 929 people on Monday from 810 people last week as widespread flooding has submerged several areas in Purworejo district of Central Java since Thursday, official said here. Local authorities warned the people to brace for possible floods and landslides as heavy rains are …
