Sale Logged Indonesia plans to impose a permanent ban on export of logs to save its forests. Over-logging has nearly destroyed the country's rain forests. Realising this, it had imposed a ban on

Children in developing countries continue to suffer, claims UNICEF

An outbreak of haze caused the closure of many schools in Sumatra recently. The thick choking smoke was triggered by

More than 120,000 hectares (ha) of rice fields and 300,000 tonnes of unhusked rice have been devastated by recent floods in Indonesia. "At least 120,991 ha of paddy fields in seven main rice

An expert on toxicology and a campaigner deeply concerned with the health impact of chemical pesticides, Romeo F Quijano was at the forefront of

The Brussels-based International Crisis Group (icg) recently indi

Despite the absence of commercial approval for genetically engineered Bt cotton in any Asian country outside China, it is spreading fast.

Participants at an international conference on forest management discuss ways to curb logging

Many parts of Malaysia have been engulfed by a thick smog resulting from forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia, where trees are burned to clear land for cultivation. Though the Malaysian government

The use of compressed natural gas (cng) has been made compulsory for new buses and taxis in some parts of Indonesia. This has been done to bring down pollution levels, said an official of the

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