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Carbon & Climate

AI should draw on Indigenous values to tackle environmental challenges: researchers

A recent study provides a framework for the integration of Indigenous knowledge and values into AI governance and examines how these ethical principles can translate to practical requirements for individual AI projects.
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Waste

Microplastics could accelerate antibiotic resistance, studies find

Plastic pollution and drug-resistant infections are usually regarded as separate global crises. But emerging research suggests links between them: Microplastic particles in the environment are colonised by bacteria, and those bacteria develop antibiotic resistance at an unprecedented rate.
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Food & Agriculture

Ladakh’s apricot lifeline challenged by a changing climate

Erratic precipitation is affecting a crop central to the Indian region’s economy, livelihood and culture for generations.
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Energy

Vietnam’s gas projects stall amid investor claims of unbankability and a renewables pivot

The country has bet on reaching 22.5 GW of LNG by 2030, but unbankable contracts and policy gaps have stalled its plans four years to the deadline.

All Cities News

10 July 2026

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Cities

Peer network strengthens well-being of women in Southeast Asia’s conservation sector

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Policy & Finance

Iran’s scientists face growing isolation amid war

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Policy & Finance

Women, young workers to be hardest hit by AI disruption in Asean: report

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Cities

Sri Lanka ramps up dengue battle with mosquito control drive

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Energy

How fuel-importing countries in South Asia can survive the next global conflict

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Waste

Why subsidies won’t work for EV battery recycling in China

8 July 2026

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Cities

As Pakistan’s monsoon arrives, people with HIV worry

3 July 2026

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Carbon & Climate

Inside the energy transition’s new scientific advice panel

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Cities

Q&A: Keeping Pakistan’s homes cool with simple solutions

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Food & Agriculture

This Philippine coastal farm is redefining farming with wetlands

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Policy & Finance

Singapore moves to strengthen data centre sustainability and resilience under new Digital Infrastructure Bill

The South Korean study is among the first attempts to quantify the long-term nature loss associated with major domestic companies using the TNFD’s LEAP methodology

Cities

South Korea’s top firms linked to nature loss equal to five times Seoul area, study finds

2 July 2026

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Transport

China's EV exports rise 49 per cent year-on-year as Asean demand powers growth

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Carbon & Climate

Taiwan stages first nationwide drill for extreme 40°C heatwave scenario

Much of Asia's infrastructure was built for a more predictable world, one that no longer exists

Green Buildings

How Asia must rethink the way it builds

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Carbon & Climate

Planned LNG plant sparks water concerns among Thai farmers

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