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21 June 2017

The Singapore government hopes to extend the life of its landfills with better waste management. Image: Tuas South Incineration Plant Semakau Landfill mof.gov.sg

Waste

Singapore unveils new rules to curb packaging waste

sumatran tigers forest fires

Carbon & Climate

Why biodiversity loss is scarier than climate change

The National University of Singapore School of Design & Environment's new Net Zero Energy Building in Kent Ridge

Green Buildings

Are green buildings standards helping to reduce climate change?

20 June 2017

orangutans nyaru menteng

Food & Agriculture

Palm oil companies join NGOs to save 10,000 Borneo orangutans

Indonesia coal mining

Energy

Despite history of violations, Indonesian court reinstates coal mine's license

boy with heavy load

Manufacturing

From tea to tobacco - which everyday products are most at risk of modern slavery links?

Man on bluegogo bike

Transport

Chinese bike-sharing culture set to roll into Sydney

Straits Times article on NTUC Fairprice claiming it uses sustainable palm oil.

Food & Agriculture

Palm oil trade body calls out Singapore supermarket over sustainability claims

Oil rigs in the field beside the interstate

Policy & Finance

How to work better together to achieve the SDGs

Indonesian forest fighters

Carbon & Climate

Groundwater may play key role in predicting rainforest fires

19 June 2017

children at work in India

Policy & Finance

India commits to global pacts on eradicating child slavery

drone over a city

Transport

How the mobility revolution will change your life

nature meets tech

Energy

UK wind power can help meet peak winter demand, study says

eFishery set up at a fish pond in Indonesia

Food & Agriculture

How technology is making farming and recycling sexy in Asia

ADB and AIIB agree to collaborate

Policy & Finance

AIIB injects new vitality to infrastructure development

make humanity great again

Carbon & Climate

Gore spurns Trump on climate change

16 June 2017

Shark fin for sale at Chang Bai Shan Ginseng Medical Hall in Chinatown, Singapore. Singapore is the world's second largest trader in the controversial dish, a fact that the Straits Times attempted to bury. Image: Eco-Business

Food & Agriculture

WWF rebuts local story on ‘sustainable shark fin’

child holds a plateful of rice

Carbon & Climate

Food shortages due to climate change could fuel violence, unrest - research

truckload of oil palm

Food & Agriculture

Palm oil and timber groups drop lawsuit against Indonesian environment law

15 June 2017

tilapia

Food & Agriculture

FAO warns of tilapia virus as outbreak spreads

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