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With scant power or freezers, Pfizer vaccine brings little cheer to coronavirus-hit IndiaPolicy & Finance
With scant power or freezers, Pfizer vaccine brings little cheer to coronavirus-hit India
India's crippling heat, erratic electricity and limited cold storage make Covid-19 vaccine logistics a challenge. -
Sounds and the city: Artists put Asia's changing urban identity on tapeFrom vanishing street vendors in India to Hong Kong's iconic trams, rapid development is altering city soundscapes.
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Could the Himalayas harbour the next pandemic?Environmental destruction and climate change are driving pandemics, with the Hindu Kush Himalayas a potential hotspot for new emerging diseases. -
'Astro-stays' bring tourists and solar power to Himalayan villagesThe social business provides solar electricity to Indian villages and offers tourists stargazing through solar-powered telescopes in the Himalayan mountains.
Opinion
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The Global South’s pandemic path to self-reliance– The Covid-19 pandemic offers developing countries the chance to reinvent and reboot their economies, and shake off the disabling legacy of foreign aid dependency. -
Getting to low-carbon high seas– The global shipping industry's annual greenhouse gas emissions total more than one billion tons, making it a critical front in the fight against climate change. -
The recovery needs development aid– Governments should be using the current crisis to double up on foreign development spending. The more support that developing and emerging economies have to weather the storm, the faster the global recovery will be.
Videos
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Eco-Business releases Arctic Awakening– Produced and directed by Eco-Business managing editor Jessica Cheam and video journalist Fraser Morton, who journeyed to Norway earlier this year, the documentary has played to thousands of visitors at Marina Bay Sands’ ArtScience museum since its premiere on 4 October.
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A social venture on the road to improve lives, reduce emissions with electric rickshaws– With a vision to end the drudgery of manual rickshaw pulling, social enterprise SMV Green is also helping restore clean air in one of India's most polluted cities through electric rickshaws.
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Watch: How an Indian professor is turning plastic trash into highways– Plastic pollution is a huge problem all over of the world. Will India's plastic roads be a solution?
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2016 was the deadliest year ever for environmental defenders– A Global Witness report has found that more than 200 people were killed for engaging in peaceful protest against corporate mining, logging, agribusiness and poaching activities last year. The trend is growing.
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