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Press Releases / UN Women

Nearly 160,000 women and girls impacted by Nepal flash floods

...These risks are particularly acute for women and girls. “The full scale of these horrific floods is still emerging”, said Patricia Fernandez-Pacheco, UN Women Repres...

31 Aug 2026

Nearly 160,000 women and girls impacted by Nepal flash floods

News / Corporate Responsibility

Palm oil and primates, can they coexist?

...The question, however, is whether these initiatives are genuinely changing conservation outcomes or simply slowing biodiversity decline. Although the palm industry has made significant progress over t...

20 Aug 2026

Palm oil and primates, can they coexist?

News / Energy

China can catalyse local finance for home solar in the Global South

...The purchaser doesn’t just benefit from the power supplied: ultimately, they own the equipment. The firms selling the systems can package the agreements and sell them to banks, who then collect future...

3 Sep 2026

China can catalyse local finance for home solar in the Global South

industrial park in Dongguan city in China

News / Energy

Can China’s zero-carbon industrial parks go global?

...the case in other countries. “When they [Chinese companies] go overseas, they have to do everything themselves. They have to build the industrial park, build a road, build a port and look after the lo...

3 Aug 2026

Can China’s zero-carbon industrial parks go global?

News / Carbon & Climate

Heat and pests threaten gourd essential to Indian music

...the quality and quantity of gourds at the end of the harvest season. Hazri says if he uses pesticides, the chemicals also damage the small flowers and buds of the gourd. For him, the impact of these e...

6 Jul 2026

Heat and pests threaten gourd essential to Indian music

Holiday makers on the beach in Singapore

News / Lifestyle

Tourists become less environmentally responsible when in ‘holiday mode’, study finds

...the study, said the timing and framing of sustainability messages could be part of the problem. “Sustainability messages often fail because they target tourists when their vacation place identity is a...

9 Feb 2026

Tourists become less environmentally responsible when in ‘holiday mode’, study finds

Jeepneys and vehicles navigate flooded streets in Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Rethinking flood protection through a ‘no-regret’ lens

...when flooding exceeds a system’s design capacity, the investment may be questioned; when the system performs successfully, the avoided disaster remains largely invisible. The dilemma is particularly r...

1 Sep 2026

Rethinking flood protection through a ‘no-regret’ lens

News / Cities

Climate risks threaten more than 380 coastal World Heritage Sites

...them more resilient in the face of climate change and other threats posed by weather extremes. “The surprising thing, I suppose, was the number of sites in the coastal zone,” Nicholls, a professor of ...

31 Aug 2026

Climate risks threaten more than 380 coastal World Heritage Sites

News / Carbon & Climate

'We are losing not only work, but survival': India’s informal workers on the green transition

...them with the coal and waits; the equipment must be ready before her father-in-law and son arrive for work. Up close, her hands tell their own story. They have been worn down by years of labour, call...

8 Jun 2026

'We are losing not only work, but survival': India’s informal workers on the green transition

The Indian Kashmiri mountain town of Gulmarg

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub

...the plant, other fungi are primarily decomposers that keep the nutrients for themselves. However, if rain falls on the snow or the snow melts early, before plants are active, the nutrients can leach f...

25 Feb 2026

Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub

News / Transport

Fishers struggle as Gwadar port grows

...when there is some Chinese or VIP movement around the port. By the time they reach the deep waters, trawlers have already caught so much fish, leaving the fishermen with nothing.” The social activist ...

31 Jul 2026

Fishers struggle as Gwadar port grows

News / Policy & Finance

Can REDD+ protect forests and deliver justice for the Indigenous Iraya Mangyan?

...ther at the river to catch shrimp together, passing down stories and knowledge in the process — an activity that has stopped entirely as the rivers dry up,” she said. “The forest is the source of ever...

28 Aug 2026

Can REDD+ protect forests and deliver justice for the Indigenous Iraya Mangyan?

Press Releases / United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Guiding light: How solar power is providing a lifeline to blackout-prone Asian villages

...when many fish come closer to the surface and are easier to catch. Bright lamps help draw them toward the boat. For years, though, blackouts made the after-dark sojourn a challenge. “Ther...

17 Mar 2026

Guiding light: How solar power is providing a lifeline to blackout-prone Asian villages

News / Manufacturing

Indigenous conflict at Indonesian timber firm prompts rights probe call

...their fields. “That was when the company took the opportunity to enter the area and clear the forest on Bukit Sabar Bubu,” Sutalion said. “When we eventually returned to patrol the hill, we found that...

14 Jul 2026

Indigenous conflict at Indonesian timber firm prompts rights probe call

News / Waste

Microplastics could accelerate antibiotic resistance, studies find

...the base of the food chain by filter feeders, like mussels, if there’s any harmful pathogens or microplastics in there, they could be making their way into the human food chain. Emily Stevenson, resea...

14 Jul 2026

Microplastics could accelerate antibiotic resistance, studies find

News / Water

Super Oyster versus climate change in Hong Kong

...ther during winters on the shore of Deep Bay where his village sits, on the eastern side of the Pearl River Estuary. The colder the weather, the fatter the oysters grow, farmers used to say. But chil...

10 Jun 2026

Super Oyster versus climate change in Hong Kong

Press Releases / United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Development gains in reverse: High debt servicing bears disproportionate impacts on women

...The report estimates that the equivalent of 55 million women’s jobs are at risk in the short term and 92.5 million in the long term when countries move from moderate to high debt repayment burde...

11 May 2026

Development gains in reverse: High debt servicing bears disproportionate impacts on women

Podcasts / Waste

Waste-to-energy ‘safe’ for Filipinos amid health, pollution fears: environment official

...the methane generation of the landfill, the height of the generation, and the type of waste that they collect. These are the things that should be considered when integrating landfills with the New Cl...

15 May 2026

Waste-to-energy ‘safe’ for Filipinos amid health, pollution fears: environment official

News / Policy & Finance

Iran’s scientists face growing isolation amid war

...the war has also laid bare the damage caused by international sanctions imposed by the US, the EU and the UN, along with other moves to cut Iran off from the rest of the world. “ International paymen...

10 Jul 2026

Iran’s scientists face growing isolation amid war

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