Eco-Business

A new study in Vietnam found coastal plastic pollution costs small-scale fishers thousands of dollars a year in lost earning potential.

The world may eventually bring temperatures back below the Paris threshold, but fishers in Eastern Samar are already spending less time at sea, catching less fish and risking their health to make ends meet.

The Bajau people of Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines have traditionally harvested the sea through freediving.

Laos’ dams and transmission lines are powering the region’s shift to lower-carbon energy. But its neighbours are also ramping up other renewables.

By Andrew Jeong

By Miriam Bahagijo

By Rashidul Hasan

By Naina Rao

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China is progressing towards the 30x30 target but concerns over livelihoods are hampering progress. By Chen Jian

Workers’ suffering is an integral part of the fisheries system, say four experts. By Abdirahim Sheik Heile, Daniel Salas, Matthew A Schnurr and Kate Swanson

Connecting communities that protect their coasts can yield huge benefits but funding is not flowing to the right places. By Adam Miller

Evolutionary game theory is useful to devise strategies for real-life situations such as international negotiations and ecological crises, where players are unequal, and choices are complex. By Aradhana Narang and A J Shaiju

By Hossain Ahmed Taufiq and Jonas Gamso

By Naporn Popattanachai

By Claudio de Sanctis

By Ulrike Decoene

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Do children ask the toughest questions? This World Oceans Day, we get renowned oceanographer Dr Sylvia Earle, founder of Mission Blue, to field questions from curious kids on the mysteries of the deep.

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On International Human Rights Day, Greenpeace releases shocking testimonies from Southeast Asian migrants working on board foreign fishing vessels, plying the remote waters to meet Asia's surging demand for seafood.

The Philippine government has begun the process of relocating more than 200,000 families living along waterways to restore Manila Bay, the main body of water in the capital.

Fishermen are often cut off from land for weeks out at sea. But a new technology enables them to be connected with loved ones, while boosting the traceability of their catch.

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Government must call on development finance institutions to tap on risk management tools to make the capital-intensive technology more investible, Global Wind Energy Council’s Ann Margret Francisco tells the EB Podcast.

EB Studio Eco-Business talks to 'Aulani Wilhelm of Conservation International about why a plan to protect the ocean is critical, and why it might just work.

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