The "considerable negative impacts on the environment" include the permanent loss of habitat for the flora and fauna, loss of terrestrial vegetation and deforestation, and the effect...
The government's plans to begin dredging the environmentally sensitive wetland area in November has sparked an outcry from islanders and environmentalists.
The hope of social media activists that an Environment Impact Assessment could save the Kulhudhufushi mangrove from destruction to build an airport is misplaced, writes environmental...
Coster-Waldau was in the Maldives on a three-day trip as a United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador and visited an atoll where several UNDP projects are located.
Mohamed Musthafa from the island of Maakurathu in Raa atoll was fined MVR149,000 ($9,600), the first penalty of its kind imposed for caging the creatures.
The fisheries minister announced a campaign for the Maldivian fisheries industry, consisting over 1,250 vessels, to intercept ocean plastics in the country's one-million square kilometre wide...
President Yameen called the decision of the United States to withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement a blow to global efforts to avert global warming...
A cyclone hit Nilandhoo in Faafu atoll Thursday afternoon and blew the roofs off 10 houses after heavy rainfall caused damages on Thinadhoo in Gaaf Dhaal...
"These damages came as the farmers were preparing for Ramadan. Now, this brings unprecedented losses to them. The estimated loss is currently more than MVR1 million...
Several other incidents on land and at sea have been reported across the Maldives as a bout of bad weather with the onset of the south-west...
On Wednesday night, a tornado struck the southernmost atoll, damaging 12 homes in the Hithadhoo ward of Addu City. The roofs were blown off nine homes...
The government has moved to take back an island lease to Professor Hassan Ugail's Korallion Lab for use as a marine station to conduct research on...
Two fires have destroyed a wetland area equal to 35 football pitches on the southern island of Fuvahmulah. Islanders said they suspect the fires were started...
Workers are combing Fuvahmulah's beach by hand in an effort to clean up several thousand tonnes of aggregate dumped on the island's reef in a historic...
The state-owned Waste Management Corporation began collecting garbage from households in Malé this week as part of a broader effort to establish a waste management network...
The Environment Protection Agency has fined a Maldivian man MVR111,500 (US$7,200) for capturing and keeping protected birds in his backyard. The hefty fine is the first...
Government supporters on the southern island of Meedhoo gathered last Friday to celebrate the controlled destruction of the island's reef to clear an oceanside channel in...
