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plastic pollution Little Andaman in the Indian Ocean

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Are microplastics ending up in biodiversity hotspots in the ocean?

...they can also be absorbed into the flesh of soft-bodied creatures. So they’re entering the food web at the lowest levels, and by the time you get to the bigger creatures in the trophic web, then they ...

7 May 2020

Are microplastics ending up in biodiversity hotspots in the ocean?

News / Policy & Finance

Indonesian anti-graft enforcers set their sights on corporations

...the nickel miner, has blocked off their water sources, leaving them dependent on a water treatment plant built by another firm whose management costs they must pay for. Still, they’re torn about wheth...

1 Apr 2020

Indonesian anti-graft enforcers set their sights on corporations

News / Carbon & Climate

Should we bank on innovation to hold back global heating? History says it’s a risky bet

...The root of the issue is that, in sketching potential fates for Earth and its climate, scientists, economists and other researchers use models that simulate complex systems like the atmosphere and the...

3 Sep 2020

Should we bank on innovation to hold back global heating? History says it’s a risky bet

News / Carbon & Climate

Wildfire-hit countries in need of new strategies to tame burning threat

...the fire experts met to share ideas. With 85 fires still burning, 30 of them not yet contained, the damage is expected to rise, Robson said, calling the fires "unprecedented". The Australian crisis, h...

17 Jan 2020

Wildfire-hit countries in need of new strategies to tame burning threat

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Key investments can build resilience to pandemics and climate change

...the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc, the world’s energies are rightly focused on efforts to contain the virus and manage the economic fallout. Yet, in the background, the climate emergen...

16 Apr 2020

Key investments can build resilience to pandemics and climate change

News / Energy

Fossil fuels: Heading down, but not yet out

...ther to the problems of the oil and other fossil fuel producers – but at the same time contributing to the well being of the planet – has been the rise of the renewable energy industry. In 2010 the sh...

21 May 2020

Fossil fuels: Heading down, but not yet out

News / Carbon & Climate

Dirty secret: Half of world lacks clean cooking, at a huge cost

...the emissions and efficiency of stoves, but also the impact of cooking methods on health and whether they are convenient, safe and affordable. The World Bank and other clean cooking experts say provid...

28 Sep 2020

Dirty secret: Half of world lacks clean cooking, at a huge cost

News / Energy

Green hydrogen could drive the energy transition—but investment and infrastructure are lacking, say experts

...The rest of the world could soon follow. Policymakers across the globe have pinned their hopes on green hydrogen—hydrogen produced with renewable energy—as the missing piece in the renewables puzzle, ...

16 Jan 2020

Green hydrogen could drive the energy transition—but investment and infrastructure are lacking, say experts

News / Carbon & Climate

How Brazil can save the Amazon through bioeconomy

...the government, that doesn’t mean that they should quit what they are doing, as the other options offered are at the other side of the table: livestock or palm. "Both the livestock and palm oil indus...

7 Oct 2019

How Brazil can save the Amazon through bioeconomy

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Chinese firms struggle to fund renewables projects overseas

...the financial system: “Financial institutions need to promote the implementation of the Green BRI through their services.”The seminar was held to mark the publication of the new report, which examined...

13 Apr 2020

Chinese firms struggle to fund renewables projects overseas

Solar panels in a rural area in Rohertek, Bangladesh

News / Energy

Bangladeshi solar-sharing start-up aims to cut power waste

...they have set up 27 "microgrids" in communities that have installed their devices across Bangladesh. A majority of their roughly 3,000 customers - most of them farmers - earn less than $5 a day, they ...

3 Jul 2020

Bangladeshi solar-sharing start-up aims to cut power waste

Opinion / Energy

Why we need a massive redraft of the Philippine Energy Plan

...these observations into account as they strengthen and revise the draft PEP. Based on the experience of Vietnam and other emerging markets, clear and well-defined policy signals attract much-needed i...

25 Sep 2020

Why we need a massive redraft of the Philippine Energy Plan

News / Waste

Seaweed over plastic: Indonesia's race towards sustainable packaging

...theast of the tourism hotspot. They’re neither fishermen nor tour guides. They’re farmers, cultivating a watery crop that promises to be part of the solution to the increasingly urgent problem of mari...

25 Mar 2020

Seaweed over plastic: Indonesia's race towards sustainable packaging

News / Lifestyle

Cutting the unexpected carbon culprits in your life

...the earth. The UN reckons it takes 3,781 litres of water to make a pair of jeans, from the production of the cotton to the delivery of the final product to the store. That equates to the emissions of...

30 Apr 2021

Cutting the unexpected carbon culprits in your life

News / Policy & Finance

South Korea proposes ban on overseas coal financing

...the Green New Deal pledge. The fact that lawmakers have followed up with this proposal shows that the initiative is there.” It is not yet known when legislators will vote on the matter. The proposal f...

30 Jul 2020

South Korea proposes ban on overseas coal financing

News / Transport

Can electric cars produce as much emissions as fossil-fueled vehicles?

...the globe, as well. The results of the study are detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature Sustainability this week. According to Florian Knobloch of Radboud University, the lead author of t...

26 Mar 2020

Can electric cars produce as much emissions as fossil-fueled vehicles?

Yaowarat Road in Chinatown in Bangkok, Thailand

News / Policy & Finance

Digital lifeline for women running Asia's small businesses

...the 39-year-old mother told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Vinh Phuc province, near the capital Hanoi. Now help is at hand, offering hope of a way through the crisis and laying the found...

15 May 2020

Digital lifeline for women running Asia's small businesses

News / Food & Agriculture

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Simon Lord, sustainable palm oil proponent

...The other the co-founder of Rainforest Alliance, Chris Wille. From both of them, I gain such strength from listening to their advice and guidance, and how they see the world. Aside of that, there's be...

9 Jan 2020

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Simon Lord, sustainable palm oil proponent

Ma Jun director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs PRC

News / Policy & Finance

Ma Jun: ‘We’re at a crossroads for environmental protection’

...the impact of the trade war with the US and the coronavirus mean unprecedented pressure on the Chinese economy. Given this, it will be hard to maintain the intensity of the top-down government-led app...

23 Mar 2020

Ma Jun: ‘We’re at a crossroads for environmental protection’

Opinion / Water

Blue acceleration: our dash for ocean resources mirrors what we’ve already done to the land

...the Earth, but when did we become the main driver of change in the planet’s ecosystems? Many scientists point to the 1950s, when all kinds of socioeconomic trends began accelerating. Since then, the w...

28 Jan 2020

Blue acceleration: our dash for ocean resources mirrors what we’ve already done to the land

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