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4 November 2019

salmon farming in Chile

Food & Agriculture

Agribusiness must reduce environmental impact. What role can banks and NGOs play?

deforested area for palm oil in Kalimantan

Food & Agriculture

Palm oil giants double down on deforestation with new radar system

31 October 2019

food produced in Singapore

Food & Agriculture

The coolest sustainability innovations at Ecosperity 2019

30 October 2019

Asian Digital Media Awards

Carbon & Climate

Eco-Business wins at WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards 2019

28 October 2019

military puts out peat fires

Corporate Responsibility

Indonesian court fines palm oil firm US$18.5 million over forest fires in 2015

24 October 2019

haze in kl 2019

Food & Agriculture

Recent Indonesian fires razed an area the size of Puerto Rico

23 October 2019

fish farm thailand

Food & Agriculture

As aquaculture booms, it's consuming more fish than it produces

22 October 2019

An advertisement for green group Sea Shepherd highlights the ecosystem damage of cigarette butt pollution to mark World Oceans Day. A single cigarette can pollute 500 litres of water, the ad warns. Image: Sea Shepherd

Waste

When will tobacco companies be held responsible for cigarette butt pollution?

21 October 2019

Sky Greens’ vertical farming systems in the background. Each vertical tower requires only 40 watts of electricity to operate—the equivalent of one lightbulb. Image: Sky Greens

Energy

7 smart innovations from Southeast Asia to speed up the energy transition

18 October 2019

cocaine smuggled

Food & Agriculture

Cocaine traffickers fuel climate change

16 October 2019

The RSPO logo on Cabbage brand vegetable oil in NTUC Fairprice in Singapore.

Food & Agriculture

Why don’t consumer brands promote their sustainable palm oil credentials?

9 October 2019

A new Greenpeace International investigation has revealed that Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil trader, is still linked to forest destruction for palm oil almost five years after committing to end deforestation.[1]

Food & Agriculture

How is the world's biggest palm oil trader living up to its no-deforestation promise?

converted forest for wood fibre, Sumatra

Food & Agriculture

Asia Pulp & Paper involved in numerous land disputes, shirking demands for more transparency—report

arctic trailer screenshot

Carbon & Climate

‘What happens in the Arctic, doesn’t stay in the Arctic’—why the north pole matters to Asia

7 October 2019

Brazil oil palm plantation

Carbon & Climate

How Brazil can save the Amazon through bioeconomy

3 October 2019

climate rally zaf

Carbon & Climate

As sea levels rise, can Singapore ratchet up the ambition of its climate targets?

1 October 2019

leuser aceh

Food & Agriculture

Big brands sourcing illegal palm oil from habitat of orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers: study

18 September 2019

KL covered in Haze

Food & Agriculture

'We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president Widodo says as fire crisis deepens

Haze over Singapore's skyline, September 2019

Food & Agriculture

As the worst haze since 2015 chokes Southeast Asia, are Big Agri's fire prevention efforts working?

Chennai resident, water crisis

Water

Parched lives on the fringe: How water scarcity has widened inequality in Chennai

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