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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Whichever way you spin it, Australia’s greenhouse emissions have been climbing since 2015

...The adjusted data says there have been 12 of these increases. And they have only agreed on whether there was an increase six times. When one form of the data shows an increase and the other does not, ...

7 Jun 2019

Whichever way you spin it, Australia’s greenhouse emissions have been climbing since 2015

A student asks International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde a question at the Ecole Royale d’Administration December 3, 2013 in Phom Phen, Cambodia

News / Carbon & Climate

The young people calling time on climate change in Asia Pacific

...They have spoken at 329 events, witnessed the birth of 35 global teams aligned to their mission, and spread the message of how plastics are degrading the environment to 45,000 students. Bringing toget...

30 Apr 2019

The young people calling time on climate change in Asia Pacific

News / Energy

In smog-choked South Korea, the biggest barrier facing renewables is people

...the most polluted wealthy nation in the world, but while citizens associate coal with the choking air they breathe, they fail to see renewables as a way to address the issue, she said. The report come...

1 Apr 2020

In smog-choked South Korea, the biggest barrier facing renewables is people

News / Policy & Finance

Moving beyond South Korea’s hierarchal business structure for sustainable green growth

...the open plan office, there is a lively and communicative air among the staff who are mostly in their 30s or 40s. At the office centre there is an open plaza where people relax over coffee, talk and b...

24 Jan 2019

Moving beyond South Korea’s hierarchal business structure for sustainable green growth

News / Policy & Finance

No more loopholes: HSBC closes door on new coal projects

...their revenue from thermal coal production, down from 30 per cent previously. “If you look at the policies in isolation, they are nowhere near sufficient; they are not watertight. But they are indicat...

27 Apr 2020

No more loopholes: HSBC closes door on new coal projects

News / Carbon & Climate

Toxic smog: the new normal in South Asia

...the most extensive of which is in Pakistan. Yet, many people living in these cities are adapting to the pollution, rather than putting pressure on their governments to taking action to change their ow...

6 Jun 2019

Toxic smog: the new normal in South Asia

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Universities need to be at the forefront of innovation and solutions for climate change

...ther Earth Hour has come and gone. Hopefully in this moment of insecurity, members of society have reflected on the state of the climate crisis and are taking the call for “a green reboot after the pa...

31 Mar 2020

Universities need to be at the forefront of innovation and solutions for climate change

News / Food & Agriculture

How satellite surveillance is closing in on illegal fishers

...The problem with these satellites is that they provide an incomplete picture of the world’s oceans because there aren’t enough of them. What’s more, because they are large—about the size of a trash du...

2 Sep 2019

How satellite surveillance is closing in on illegal fishers

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Intense forest fires threaten to derail Indonesia’s progress in reducing deforestation

...the land proved unsuitable for massive rice cultivation. What can we do? The fact that fires are still a far cry from the levels seen in 2015, the last time the country experienced an El Niño weathe...

9 Oct 2019

Intense forest fires threaten to derail Indonesia’s progress in reducing deforestation

News / Carbon & Climate

Asia Pacific faring poorly on SDGs, marching backwards for two goals—UN

...the share of renewable energy in Asia Pacific, at 16 per cent, is one of the lowest globally. The region emits half of the world’s greenhouse gases, and the number has doubled since the year 2000, fro...

30 Mar 2020

Asia Pacific faring poorly on SDGs, marching backwards for two goals—UN

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Fighting anaemia—a silent killer of women

...the body) in the blood, anaemia occurs either when there are too few red blood cells or when their oxygen-carrying capacity is compromised. It is caused by a deficiency in essential nutrients, most of...

13 Aug 2019

Fighting anaemia—a silent killer of women

News / Transport

Gravity lightens the load for Nepal's hard-working rural women

...the face of heavy workloads, she said. But the women of Ratada now have help to lighten the load, in the form of a gravity-assisted rope-and-cable system that lets them transport heavy loads across th...

4 Apr 2019

Gravity lightens the load for Nepal's hard-working rural women

Cuestar project manager Neo Hong Giap demonstrating dry ice blasting on a metal strip

News / Waste

Moving towards cleaner ways of cleaning

...the savings on the waste,” she says. "In the past, when we were first brought up the dry ice method to them, they were not so receptive as they worried that the procedure is more expensive than other ...

2 Jul 2019

Moving towards cleaner ways of cleaning

News / Carbon & Climate

What the Arctic and Antarctic are trying to tell us, and why Southeast Asia must listen

...the can down the road, but there can be no further passing of the buck, Swan said. Scientists have warned that humans must make unprecedented changes to the way they generate energy, use land and live...

30 Aug 2019

What the Arctic and Antarctic are trying to tell us, and why Southeast Asia must listen

News / Cities

Race for space to house vulnerable in coronavirus crisis

...them. But we tell them, 'when you go in the street, remember these things like keep the mask and don't touch anything if you don't have to'," he explained. Officials expect the crisis to have an outsi...

27 Mar 2020

Race for space to house vulnerable in coronavirus crisis

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How a small community in the northeastern corner of India became the country's first green village

...the happiest moments of my life.” The hunting ban called for a huge shift in the lifestyle of the Khonoma people. The inflection point came in the early-1990s, when villagers killed as many as 300 en...

1 Apr 2019

How a small community in the northeastern corner of India became the country's first green village

A sticker calls for action against Aids seen in a shopfront in Indonesia

Opinion / Cities

What HIV has to do with the SDGs

...theless, millions of people still do not know their HIV status or cannot get the support they need when they test positive. If the world is ever to overcome HIV/Aids, we must find ways to close these ...

28 Dec 2018

What HIV has to do with the SDGs

Dr Jane Goodall speaking at a press conference in Singapore. She said complaints from hotel customers would help to phase out shark's fin. Image: Eco-Business

News / Food & Agriculture

Hotel customers in Asia should complain if they see shark's fin on the menu: environmentalist Dr Jane Goodall

...the venues’ management if they see shark's fin soup on the menu. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday held at a hotel in Singapore which, like many others in the city-state, serves the controvers...

27 Nov 2019

Hotel customers in Asia should complain if they see shark's fin on the menu: environmentalist Dr Jane Goodall

News / Waste

Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems

...the fauna, we have an additional problem to the simple physical effect of the presence of the pellets, especially in the areas where they accumulate, such as beaches and mangroves.” He added: “As the ...

27 May 2019

Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems

News / Energy

Weights show the way to cheap stored power

...the journal Energy. It allows the energy to be stored for months. If a water source is available halfway or further up a mountain the empty containers can be filled nearer the top, making the system e...

25 Nov 2019

Weights show the way to cheap stored power

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