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A mission to conserve forest canopies

...the mysteries of life in the treetops. More than four decades on, the monikers she has gathered say it all: mother of canopy research, Einstein of the rooftops, real-life Lorax, to name a few. Only a ...

27 Oct 2022

A mission to conserve forest canopies

News / Energy

Kachchh windmills encroach on unique thorn forest and local wildlife

...the rate of Rs. 2,500 a month. Earlier, the bees came from the forest. The noise from the mills and the reduced jungle has forced them to go away,” Dhaval Patel, a farmer, told Mongabay-India. The vil...

21 Apr 2022

Kachchh windmills encroach on unique thorn forest and local wildlife

News / Energy

Singapore power firm called out for greenwashing 'environmentally friendly' natural gas

...the problems that we are trying to solve," they said. The day after Eco-Business approached SingGas for comment, the company said it has "stopped the advertisement for internal review, and we are not ...

22 Oct 2021

Singapore power firm called out for greenwashing 'environmentally friendly' natural gas

rescue mission in northeast india floods

News / Carbon & Climate

Local volunteers to the rescue as fiercer floods ravage northeast India

...The team quickly spread the word to the rest of the committee, who started getting villagers to safety. "As the water inundated the village during the next few hours, there was absolute chaos... The f...

22 Nov 2021

Local volunteers to the rescue as fiercer floods ravage northeast India

Singapore's Sentosa covered in smog during haze crisis of 2015

News / Carbon & Climate

First-ever red alert for transboundary haze will be a stress test for Asean cooperation: report

...the hotter and drier weather expected in the coming months in the event of a strong El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). El Niño refers to the unusual warming of the ocean surface in the ce...

23 Jun 2023

First-ever red alert for transboundary haze will be a stress test for Asean cooperation: report

News / Policy & Finance

Natural disasters cost world US$280 billion in 2021 — a third more than in 2020

...the third consecutive year — another sign of the worsening impacts of climate change. The costliest nature-related calamity at US$65 billion was Hurricane Ida, which struck the east coast of the Unite...

11 Jan 2022

Natural disasters cost world US$280 billion in 2021 — a third more than in 2020

News / Energy

Wind farms signal decline of agriculture in southern India

...thern Tamil Nadu. They shared how the area has evolved over the last few decades and the social impact that the wind farms have had. The people understand that the wind farms led to rapid improvement ...

18 Apr 2022

Wind farms signal decline of agriculture in southern India

News / Policy & Finance

Indigenous peoples warn of global delay on forest protection push

...they are living sustainably for millennia", Eide said. "They clearly have a competence about sustainable living. Part of our work is to raise the clout of their organisations." Norway has been the top...

28 Jun 2022

Indigenous peoples warn of global delay on forest protection push

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Green groups fear failure on new global biodiversity pact after sluggish talks

...the 30 per cent figure itself in Nairobi. While there is wide backing for the direction of the target, with about half of the world's governments publicly declaring their support, the potential exclus...

28 Jun 2022

Green groups fear failure on new global biodiversity pact after sluggish talks

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‘Fairness for vulnerable communities’: IPCC's ‘final warning’ on climate spotlights inclusive governance and finance

...the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the international body for assessing the science related to climate change. The final part of the IPCC's mammoth sixth assessment re...

21 Mar 2023

‘Fairness for vulnerable communities’: IPCC's ‘final warning’ on climate spotlights inclusive governance and finance

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Woodstock going green

...the majority can be traced to the running of the venue and the traveling of the band and audience. As artists find themselves in ever more conflicting situations – “performing art at the cost of the e...

1 Nov 2021

Woodstock going green

Shaq Koyok, Indigenous artist and activist

News / Carbon & Climate

'Too many forests lost because Indigenous peoples have had to fight alone': Malaysian activist Shaq Koyok

...the Orang Asli people. Or if they have, they believe that we are all from Borneo. Another reason I live in the city is that there is no wi-fi in the village! It is hard to make the voices of the Indi...

13 Sep 2022

'Too many forests lost because Indigenous peoples have had to fight alone': Malaysian activist Shaq Koyok

A view of the forest in Central Kalimantan

News / Carbon & Climate

Voluntary carbon market principles: test lies in implementation, experts say

...the stringency of its assessment criteria and the way it evaluates the permanence of projects’ benefits. It deferred judgement on whether countries and firms can use the same offsetting project in tab...

17 Aug 2022

Voluntary carbon market principles: test lies in implementation, experts say

News / Energy

Hong Kong’s power utilities seek to boost share of nuclear in fuel mix

...The Onagawa nuclear power station had then served as a shelter for evacuees during the disaster. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on the other hand, confronted severe core damage in three of...

13 Jul 2022

Hong Kong’s power utilities seek to boost share of nuclear in fuel mix

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Nepal triples tiger population in span of 12 years despite human-animal conflict concerns

...the same year that it and 12 other tiger range countries agreed to double the population of Panthera tigris by the next Year of the Tiger in the Chinese zodiac, which is 2022. Following the latest cen...

1 Aug 2022

Nepal triples tiger population in span of 12 years despite human-animal conflict concerns

News / Carbon & Climate

What is COP27, and why is it so important?

...the 27th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This annual meeting brings together the 198 members of the convention to take concerted act...

6 Oct 2022

What is COP27, and why is it so important?

News / Energy

Widespread carbon capture in Southeast Asia unviable without carbon pricing: report

...the region, the study said. Even wealthy nations struggle with financing CCUS for power plants, the report added, which further dims the outlook for cash-strapped Southeast Asia. The only operating co...

27 Apr 2022

Widespread carbon capture in Southeast Asia unviable without carbon pricing: report

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Why did the Yunnan elephants trek so far north?

...the media: ”The herd are wandering haphazardly, but always northwards, and because they are gaining altitude as they go north, there is less and less food available for them on the wooded slopes. It’s...

4 Sep 2023

Why did the Yunnan elephants trek so far north?

Press Releases / International Built Environment Week

IBEW 2022: Building blocks for the future

...the evolving demands from the Built Environment industry. Mr Yip Je Choong, Managing Director of RX Singapore, the organiser for BEX Asia 2022, said: "The pandemic has accentuated the need for the bu...

15 Aug 2022

IBEW 2022: Building blocks for the future

Videos / Water

Curiosity is harming Singapore's intertidal wildlife

...the few natural beaches in Singapore. It is a repeat of what happened last year during the June school break, when Covid-19 deterred overseas travel. "When the June incident happened, we didn't know i...

9 Feb 2022

Curiosity is harming Singapore's intertidal wildlife

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