#air quality

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Conversion of land function reduces farmers` welfare

The Indonesian Farmers Association (HKTI) said that the increasing conversion of agricultural land into settlement or ...

Haze raises respiratory disease sufferers by 20 pct

The Health Monitoring Office (KKP) of Pekanbaru`s Port recorded increase in respiratory disease by 20 percent as a ...

Air quality index in Riau improving

Air quality index in Riau has continued to improve in line with the declining number of forest and land fires ...

BNPB sets aside Rp25 billion to battle forest fires

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has set aside Rp25 billion (around 2.5 million US Dollar) to make ...

Peabody Energy Chairman And CEO Delivers China Development Forum Address On Economic, Environmental Benefits Of 21st Ce

- In an address to the China Development Forum Economic Summit in Beijing, Peabody Energy Chairman and CEO Gregory H. ...

Euro 3 to be implemented in August 2013

The Minister of Environment, Balthasar Kambuaya, has officially announced the enactment of the new emissions standard ...

UL Announces Global Certification for Environmentally Preferable Cleaning Products

-     Internationally Recognized Environmental Leadership Standards to Facilitate the Manufacture ...

New Tool from UL Environment's SQ(R) Program Helps Manufacturers Gauge Sustainability Efforts

-     UL Environment, a business unit of UL (Underwriters Laboratories), announced today the launch ...

Taiwan ranked 29th in global environmental performance

Taiwan was ranked 29th among 132 countries in a recent report on environmental performance published by renowned U.S. ...

10 Indonesian hotels win ASEAN Green Award

Ten hotels operating in Indonesia have won ASEAN Green Hotel Recognition Award 2012 for applying environmentally ...

US to provide US$450 million for environmental cooperation with RI

The United States government recently pledged to set aside US$450 million for environmental and climate change ...

Fokker plane flies safely despite haze cloud

A commercial Fokker-50 plane of the Sky Aviation, plying Dumai, Riau province to Batam, Riau Islands route, flew ...

Haze again covers Dumai, Riau

Haze again covered Dumai, Riau Province, on Tuesday evening, after it had been disappearing over the last two weeks. ...

At least 69 hot-spots detected in Dumai in January-July

The Dumai agriculture, plantation and forestry office has detected at least 69 hot-spots from January to July 2011, ...

Haze comes back in Sumatra and Kalimantan

Haze has come back on Sumatra and Kalimantan Islands over the past few weeks, affecting the environment, the local ...