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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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Water

Indonesian coastal villages in the dark over nickel pollution

The government has recorded multiple environmental violations at the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park, but locals are yet to see action.
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Policy & Finance

COP30: Could Brazil’s ‘Tropical Forest Forever’ fund help tackle climate change?

Billed as the “Amazon COP”, the UN climate talks will see the debut of Brazil’s flagship fund to “reward” tropical countries for keeping their forests intact.
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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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24 October 2025

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Cities

Life in the Sundarbans, on the front line of climate change

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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Water

Global water resources under strain, WMO finds, as extremes of scarcity and deluge deepen

11 September 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Are cloudbursts a scapegoat for India’s floods?

3 September 2025

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Water

China’s journey from tackling water pollution to restoring ecosystems

1 September 2025

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Energy

Explainer: How mainland Southeast Asia is incorporating wind power

15 August 2025

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Water

Smuggled mercury shows extent of illegal Amazon gold mining

13 August 2025

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Water

Tribal fears mount in Himalayas with end of Indus water treaty

24 July 2025

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Manufacturing

Global shoe brands tied to toxic tannery conditions in India

23 July 2025

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Water

How India’s leather industry is polluting a major river basin

27 June 2025

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Energy

Indonesia's nickel mining for EV boom threatens environment

26 June 2025

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Water

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

13 June 2025

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Water

Toxic runoff from Myanmar rare earth mines threatens Thai waterways

5 June 2025

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Water

India-Pakistan water pact ‘outdated’ in climate era

28 May 2025

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Food & Agriculture

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, elusive ‘ghost rice’ holds key to climate resilience

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