#mental health News
Carbon & Climate
Community-led conservation: When protecting the elusive Dulungan hornbill involves working with its exploiters
Filipino conservationist and founder of Antique-based Dulungan Youth Jann Vinze Barcinal shares how he is helping former poachers find new ways of making a living in ecotourism and nursery work so that they become the bird's protectors.
Carbon & Climate
Greenwashing fear is driving investment in sustainability in Asia – but also stunting climate ambition, study finds
Business executives around the region are very wary of being called out for greenwashing, a survey by Kearney finds. Changing rules for how firms can communicate their sustainability credentials are fuelling angst.
A 1°C warmer Singapore will result in an 88 per cent increase in economic losses to heat stress, which also negatively affects fertility, research by National University of Singapore finds.
Food & Agriculture
The skipped chapter of the sustainable palm oil story: Women smallholders
EB Studio
Women make up a large but undervalued part of the palm oil industry. How can the "backbone" of Indonesia's palm oil trade be included in the sustainability conversation?
Carbon & Climate
Climate change takes heavy toll on mental health in Bangladesh
Food & Agriculture
Climate-stressed Indian farmers seek to escape debt and suicide
#mental health Opinion
The imaginative process of crafting fictional narratives about difficult topics comes with its own benefits – almost akin to therapy.
Carbon & Climate
Scrolling into stress: How climate fears hit youth
It is particularly important for emerging economies like Indonesia that has a large youth population to address the issue of eco-anxiety, often driven by a perceived lack of political will and action from those in power.
The comedy-drama film mirrors many psychological effects of climate change. It may also point a way forward, in acknowledging fundamental unfairness, loss and an inability to control the past.
There must be a balance between sufficient anxiety to promote positive and urgent change in people’s behaviour, and not so much as to create paralysis. How we communicate facts matters, these researchers say.
