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Entrepreneur Tony Verb is on a mission to promote technology that can help make cities greener and smarter in China's Greater Bay Area, now being shaped as a low-carbon megalopolis. Hong Kong-based Ve...

21 Jun 2019

As Pakistan's first-ever electric three-wheeled rickshaws start to roll off the assembly line, the country is struggling to build momentum for its shift to electric vehicles in efforts to cut air poll...

12 Mar 2020

An advertisement for green group Sea Shepherd highlights the ecosystem damage of cigarette butt pollution to mark World Oceans Day. A single cigarette can pollute 500 litres of water, the ad warns. Image: Sea Shepherd

Though few people would ever say this publicly, it could be argued that, by killing 7 million people a year, tobacco companies are doing the world a favour by keeping human population growth in check....

22 Oct 2019

Total global waste is expected to double from nearly 2 billion tonnes in 2016 to an estimated 4 billion tonnes by 2050 as consumer-oriented urban populations grow. As population growth increases consu...

31 Jan 2020

a shelf of cockroaches at Shandong Qiaobin Agricultural Technology Co., in Jinan, China. WOCHIT NEWS YOUTUBE

At a media workshop held by the World Bank and Eco-Business in Singapore earlier this year, it emerged that news consumers are growing tired of the doom and gloom in climate reporting, and are turned ...

24 Dec 2019

Electronic waste being processed in an informal setting in Thailand. Image: Basel Action Network

International regulations designed to limit the environmental impact of electronic waste could be making the problem worse, experts in Southeast Asia say. The region's e-waste sector has been under th...

27 Mar 2019

Blue Planet moves closer to ‘zero waste to landfill’ vision with new green building solution

Singapore, 28 August 2019 — Singapore-headquartered waste management solutions provider, Blue Planet Environmental Solutions Pte. Ltd. (“Blue Planet”) today announced the strategic a...

29 Aug 2019

man sells vegetables in Old Ahmedabad, India

Javid Ahmad shook his head in disgust at the bag of carrots he had discovered while arranging vegetables on his roadside stall in Indian-administered Kashmir - inside, half of the carrots were broken ...

2 Oct 2020

As many companies scrambled to respond to disruptions arising from the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year, nutrition, health and sustainable living company Royal DSM signed its largest renewable e...

6 Oct 2020

The Moringa Health & Food industry’s most productive seed variety MOL'E unveiled for Leaf Farming by MOMAX3 moringa seeds inventor

A state-of-the-art Cultivation technology and new Moringa seeds "MOL'E" look set to push the boundaries in both Quality leaves production and sustainability. Advanced Biofuel Center (ABC) reports pro...

17 Jul 2019

In Wuyi County, one of the poorest regions in China’s Hebei province, a combination of e-commerce, blockchain technology and government will has lifted the area from the national poverty list after ru...

23 Apr 2019

It’s just after sunrise here in Bali, and a group of locals are preparing to sail their wooden boats out to a bay off Nusa Lembongan, a small island southeast of the tourism hotspot. They’re neither f...

25 Mar 2020

Many parts of the world may not have enough suitable land for green efforts to make up for the environmental damage caused by planned development like clearing forests for new roads or more plantation...

30 Apr 2020

November is a manic month for retailers as tens of millions of shoppers go on a buying spree on Singles Day and Black Friday. This year, furniture giant IKEA is trying something different for Black Fr...

12 Nov 2020

The world before Covid-19 looks very attractive right now. In light of the disease, mass unemployment and social distancing, a return to pre-pandemic normality seems appealing. Yet we should remember ...

19 Jun 2020

78% of Europe’s largest companies falling short of adequately reporting environmental and climate-related risks despite EU guidelines

The findings from the latest analysis of environmental and climate-related disclosure by Europe’s major companies reveal that current corporate reporting practices could fall short on delivering...

19 May 2020

As roads in the Philippines get a breather from choc-a-bloc traffic amid Covid-19 lockdowns, mobility advocates are pushing for better bicycling infrastructure and a fairer system of compensation for ...

9 Sep 2020

e-waste being processed by hand in India

The world produces 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) per year, according to a recent UN report, but only 20 per cent is formally recycled. Much of the rest ends up in land...

18 Feb 2019

Climate-vulnerable Singapore will part ways with fossil fuel vehicles within the next two decades and throw its weight behind cleaner vehicles, starting with hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs). Its pi...

21 Feb 2020

apothecary mixing traditional Chinese medicine

Last Thursday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on China to shut down wet markets where illegal wildlife are sold. Pompeo’s call was echoed by the Australian government, which on the same day ...

28 Apr 2020

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