Singapore's OCBC Bank is the first financial services group in Southeast Asia to rule out financing new coal-fired power plants.

Scientists have long suspected such a trend but have been unable to demonstrate it with data until they completed tabulation of log books from 60 years of plankton research.

A warmer world means more chance of extreme heat in more than one continent at the same time, and a rising threat to global food security.

The global financial institution has advocated for reforms that favour agribusiness and ignore peasants and indigenous peoples whose livelihoods depend on traditional land use.

Renowned for its diverse wildlife, Thailand's biggest national park is also home to about 30 communities of ethnic Karen people, who have traditionally lived and farmed there.