Small-scale hydropower systems, combined with solar panels to increase renewable energy supply, have been supporting efforts in Sabah to improve access to clean and stable electricity in underserved villages.
The number of dangerously hot days for pregnant women doubled between 2020 and 2024 in 90 per cent of countries studied. Singapore is the most at-risk country in Asia for pregnant people.
The “wealthiest 10 per cent” of people on the planet are “responsible” for 65 per cent of the 0.61°C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, according to new research.
Recently, Bangladesh successfully developed lotus silk – a biodegradable luxury fabric – using lotus stems, merging ancient tradition with modern sustainability science.
Messages based on disgust reduce the appeal of meat by decreasing enjoyment and moral detachment, driving consumers towards a plant-based diet, a study finds.
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Patrizia Catellani
Urban heat is a public health emergency, an infrastructure challenge and a climate crisis rolled into one. To safeguard cities and their most vulnerable populations, India needs city-level cost-effective long-term mitigation strategies.
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Sanjay Seth and Yatin Choudhary
Transgender Australians risk being caught in the crossfire if politicians turn issues that hardly affect most people into supposed threats to broader society.
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Dr Tariq Choucair, Katherine M. FitzGerald, Lucinda Nelson
In India, current frameworks for defining urban areas relies on the subjectivity of bureaucracy and archaic metrics such as the distribution of the male workforce. A more accurate definition will enable better targeting of resources.
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Reetika Syal and
Tarun Arora
Campaigning for the city-state's general elections has crossed the halfway mark, but climate has hardly featured as an electoral issue. Eco-Business hits the streets to ask Singaporeans from a range of socioeconomic groups: Would they vote for a party that promises bolder climate action?
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Jack Johnson says yes, but it is a long road ahead. In this exclusive interview, we ask the American singer-songwriter and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador about his hopes for the state of the world and how music plays a role in providing a dose of optimism in dark times.
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In this exclusive interview to mark Earth Day, Eco-Business speaks to Dr Sylvia Earle, oceanographer and founder of Mission Blue, who draws the link between our climate crisis and the health of our oceans.
Indonesian environmental campaigners took a novel approach to raising climate awareness by publishing five children's books about the country's environmental issues. This podcast explores their creative process and the public's response.
Formula 1 emits the carbon equivalent of 30,000 homes as it roars through 21 countries in a season. Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 head of sustainability Alice Ashpitel says the sport's ambition to decarbonise by 2030 is not unrealistic.
Goumbook launched a regional oceans network that brought discussions on the blue economy to the forefront at the last COP summit. Founder Tatiana Abella tells the Eco-Business Podcast why healthy oceans are important for the Middle East.
Eco-anxiety is a healthy psychological response, says 24-year-old activist Clover Hogan. The founder of nonprofit Force of Nature tells the Eco-Business Podcast how to respond to anxiety in a world that is "numb" to the climate crisis.