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Carbon & Climate

Planned LNG plant sparks water concerns among Thai farmers

Farmers in Thailand’s Chachoengsao province worry a planned 600-megawatt LNG power plant could increase water shortages and air pollution in an area already facing recurring drought.
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Water

‘Same dangerous project’: Outrage grows after Indonesia revives disputed mine

Indonesia’s environment ministry has reapproved a controversial zinc and lead mine in North Sumatra, less than a year after the Supreme Court forced it to revoke the project’s earlier environmental approval over disaster-risk concerns.
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Energy

Chinese firms no less green than Europeans, says leading local expert

Exclusive Chinese clean energy firms face environmental rules as strict as Europe’s, argues China Renewable Energy Industries Association's Weiquan Wang, countering claims of lax standards that Chinese firms have been accused of, particularly some Belt and Road Initiative projects abroad.
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Food & Agriculture

War and climate stress push Afghan farmers to the brink

Afghanistan’s conflicts repeatedly hurt its farmers who endure droughts, floods and rising financial uncertainty.

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27 January 2026

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Policy & Finance

Indonesia scraps permits of firms blamed for worsening Sumatra floods, landslides

10 November 2025

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Carbon & Climate

‘Climate whiplash’: Asia’s worst extreme weather events of 2025

15 October 2025

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Energy

Trade-offs: Working with China on the energy transition

29 September 2025

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Cities

How flood control projects fail the poor in the Philippines

25 September 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Q&A: ‘Pakistan will have to adapt to floods as the new normal’

24 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

Q&A: Will China and the BRICS fill the ‘leadership gap’ on climate change?

11 September 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Are cloudbursts a scapegoat for India’s floods?

13 August 2025

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Water

Tribal fears mount in Himalayas with end of Indus water treaty

26 June 2025

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Water

Specter of dams and diversion looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River

5 June 2025

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Water

India-Pakistan water pact ‘outdated’ in climate era

26 May 2025

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Water

Pakistan’s new climate minister on water, justice and a warming world

21 May 2025

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Water

The Mekong Delta’s climate defences are failing

14 May 2025

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Water

What India’s river moves mean for South Asian water cooperation

21 April 2025

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Water

Mekong fish corridors mapped for the first time but funding cuts threaten research

17 April 2025

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Energy

Indonesia’s hydropower projects threaten Indigenous forests in the 'Heart of Borneo'

7 April 2025

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Water

Can't wash, can't farm: Iranians battle 'water bankruptcy'

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