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Carbon & Climate

How climate change reshaped the wild in 2025

Around the world, rising temperatures and erratic weather are forcing animals to adapt in startling ways – with consequences for people and ecosystems alike.
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Lifestyle

Shocking places where microplastics were found in 2025

New studies reveal plastic particles infiltrating human bodies, food systems and even the planet’s most remote ecosystems.
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Cities

AI system listens to elephants to prevent deadly encounters in India

Engineer-turned-conservationist Seema Lokhandwala has developed an AI-powered device that listens for elephant vocalisations and plays sounds like tiger roars or buzzing bees to drive herds away from villages near India’s Kaziranga National Park.
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Lifestyle

Rewilding travel: Southeast Asia’s top ecotourism destinations

From Thailand’s elephant plains to the Philippines’ coral sanctuaries, these destinations share one belief: that tourism must give back more than it takes. In Southeast Asia, ecotourism isn’t just about seeing nature – it’s about keeping it alive.

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19 September 2025

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Cities

Philippines flood corruption scandal stalls funding for bridge project, giving endangered dolphins a reprieve

11 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

The tangle of biodiversity credits

5 September 2025

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Energy

Indigenous communities fear impacts of Cambodian wind projects

22 August 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Fossil-fuelled heat has caused tropical birds to decline by ‘up to 38%’ since 1950s

7 April 2025

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Cities

China’s evolving zoos, from entertainment to education

20 March 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Limited climate aid leaves Sri Lankan communities vulnerable

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Cities

Bhutan’s growing migration wave demands better planning

13 March 2025

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Water

Seagrass loss leaves Thailand’s dugongs struggling to survive

13 February 2025

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Cities

'Don’t buy wildlife': Bali tourism trade peddles threatened primate skulls

6 February 2025

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Policy & Finance

Did the Moo Deng craze help wild pygmy hippo conservation?

4 February 2025

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Water

Fears India’s huge reef rollout could do more harm than good

16 January 2025

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Water

How biodiversity impacts every corner of human life

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Cities

New technology drives Bangladesh’s efforts against wildlife crimes

6 January 2025

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Policy & Finance

‘Oil palms have leaves’: Indonesian president says palm oil expansion not deforestation

23 October 2024

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Policy & Finance

‘Ambition' problem: Why most Southeast Asian nations missed the COP16 biodiversity pledges deadline

11 October 2024

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Water

Cambodian fishers-turned-citizen scientists report on marine mammal deaths

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