#environment

Kamis , 01 May 2014, 03:59 WIB

Govt optimistic to grow 15 ha million of industrial forest concessions

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Government is optimistic to grow 15 million hectares of industrial forest concessions (HTI) supported by concession owners including Asian Pulp and Paper (APP) dan Asia Pasific...

Jumat , 18 Apr 2014, 00:16 WIB

LIPI: 30.4 percent of coral reefs severely damaged

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Study by Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) through Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (COREMAP) shows that 30.4 percent of Indonesia's coral reefs are severely damaged and affecting people's life. Head of Research Center for Oceanography in LIPI, Zainal Arifin said that he and his team made some intensive research in 15 cities and districts. "We observed coral...

Selasa , 15 Apr 2014, 05:20 WIB

Wilmar violates agreement on 'zero deforestation'

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BALIKPAPAN - Crude palm oil producer, PT Wilmar...

Senin , 14 Apr 2014, 22:22 WIB

Government provides 425 billion IDR for the disabled

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Indonesian government has distributed aid for...

Senin , 07 Apr 2014, 17:54 WIB

Five Rafflesia arnoldiis to bloom in Bengkulu

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BENGKULU - Five Rafflesia arnoldii flowers are going...

Thick smoke billows from forest fire in Riau on March 20, 2014. (File photo)

Sabtu , 05 Apr 2014, 08:54 WIB

Govt spends 267 billion IDR to contain Riau forest fires

In this Dec. 6, 2007, file photo, Oxfam activists wearing polar bear costumes stage a demonstration outside the venue of the UN climate change conference in Nusa Dua, Bali island, Indonesia.

Senin , 24 Mar 2014, 17:40 WIB

UN says 2013 'extreme events' due to warming earth

Smoke billows from plantation fire in Bengkalis, Riau. (File photo)

Selasa , 18 Mar 2014, 15:24 WIB

Govt drops 1.6 tonnes of water bomb to contain Riau fires

Smoke billows from plantation fire in Province of Riau (file photo)

Jumat , 14 Mar 2014, 16:19 WIB

President on Twitter: Handle the fire or I will take over

A Sumatran elephant (elephas maximus sumatranus) lies dead in Aceh. (file photo)

Kamis , 13 Mar 2014, 21:08 WIB

Another Sumatran elephant found dead

Smoke from forest and peatland fires limits visibility in Riau. (illustration)

Kamis , 13 Mar 2014, 19:17 WIB

Government prepares water bombs to mitigate Riau haze

Smoke billows during a forest fires in Pelalawan, Riau province, Indonesia, as seen in this file photo on June 27, 2013.

Kamis , 13 Mar 2014, 17:55 WIB

Minister expects ratification on haze pollution soon

Geopelia striata or locally known as Perkutut Jawa (file photo)

Rabu , 12 Mar 2014, 19:20 WIB

Hundreds of protected birds confiscated from owner

Indonesia's Minister of Environmental Affairs Balthasar Kambuaya (file photo)

Ahad , 09 Mar 2014, 23:17 WIB

Indonesia, Poland strengthen environmental cooperation

Ahad , 09 Mar 2014, 22:41 WIB

China to toughen environment law, hold polluters accountabel

Deforestation in Papuan forest is see from above. (Illustration)

Jumat , 07 Mar 2014, 23:59 WIB

World's indigenous people to discuss deforestation

Rabu , 05 Mar 2014, 22:53 WIB

NOAA satellite detects 48 hot spots in Sumatra

Civil servants of Special Province of Jakarta go to their office by bicycles on the first Friday every month. Civil servants of Samarinda will follow suit starting in March. (File photo)

Bicycling only for civil servants, please!

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SAMARINDA - Regional Government of Samarinda, East Kalimantan, will ban any motor vehicle on the way to the offices for civil servants including its senior official. The government ask them to use bicycles instead, on the first Friday every month. "Once in a month which falls on every first Friday, all civil servants are obliged to use bicycles on...

Secretary of State John Kerry (center) takes a selfie with a group of students before delivering a speech on climate change on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014, in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Senin , 17 Feb 2014, 18:09 WIB

Kerry mocks those who deny climate change

An American alligator perches on a tree branch in the Pearl River Delta, Mississippi, in this undated handout photo received on February 14, 2014.

Sabtu , 15 Feb 2014, 23:23 WIB

Researchers: Crocodiles can climb trees

Forest fire causes thick smoke in City of Padang, West Sumatra, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014.

Kamis , 13 Feb 2014, 18:25 WIB

Govt to rent amphibian plane and chopper from Russia to tackle haze issues

Kamis , 13 Feb 2014, 18:13 WIB

Disaster mitigation agency carries out coordination to tackle haze problem

Smoke rises from a burnt forest. (illustration)

Rabu , 12 Feb 2014, 18:00 WIB

Malaysia: No help for companies setting fire in Indonesian forest

Visitor looks at an American bison at Surabaya Zoo in East Java. (File photo)

Selasa , 11 Feb 2014, 21:21 WIB

US, Britain, and China offer partnership to Surabaya zoo

Kamis , 06 Feb 2014, 04:54 WIB

Jakarta to build nine new reservoirs to contain floods

Senin , 03 Feb 2014, 00:43 WIB

Two more animals die in Surabaya Zoo

Worker of public cleanliness department collect the garbage after flooding in Jakarta. (File photo)

Jumat , 31 Jan 2014, 22:40 WIB

About 200 tonnes of garbage piles up at Kalibata bridge

Flood in Kampung Melayu district, East Jakarta.

Ahad , 19 Jan 2014, 00:21 WIB

Official: Last year floods in Jakarta is worse

Kamis , 16 Jan 2014, 22:15 WIB

Floods cause 20 trillion IDR of losses

Some staff prepare the procedure of weather modification technology on Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014.

Kamis , 16 Jan 2014, 01:05 WIB

Jakarta on flood alert until Feb 12

A horse pulls a carriage in a flooded street in Jakarta on Monday, Jan. 13, 2014.

Senin , 13 Jan 2014, 21:47 WIB

Flood forces thousands Jakarta residents to be evacuated

Ahad , 12 Jan 2014, 16:27 WIB

Maleo bird at risk to extinction

A woman and her son make their way up a snow covered sidewalk in the South Bronx section of New York City, January 3, 2014.

Senin , 06 Jan 2014, 11:27 WIB

Schools closed due to 'life-threatening' cold in Midwest

Sumateran elephant (elephant maximus sumatranus)

Kamis , 02 Jan 2014, 17:48 WIB

Sumatran elephant dies caused by obesity

Bad weather to hit Sunda Strait

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDAR LAMPUNG - The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) predicted that bad weather still occured in southern part of Sunda Strait. Expert of BMKG in Lampung, Rintiana explained that the wave as high as two to three meters could occured in this location. "Wind blows from southwest to west with speed of five to ten knots, wave as...

Giant Panda Lun Lun looks at her panda cub Mei Lun as her other cub Mei Huan sleeps at her feet at the Atlanta Zoo in Atlanta, Georgia November 14, 2013.

Sabtu , 14 Dec 2013, 23:59 WIB