As people across the country crank up the AC, the grid is struggling to cope: a peek into a future in which climate change drives more extreme weather.
A court decision overturning an earlier ban on three-wheelers paves the way for them to be made legal, which would support better design and potentially greener ways to power them, benefitting drivers, transport experts say.
Human encroachment into wildlife habitats and economic growth are among the main drivers of the emergence of pandemics. We could face greater risks if we pass diseases to wild animals.
By
Linfa Wang
The devastating effects of climate change are bearing down on cities. For adaptation and decarbonisation to work, municipal leaders need to devote resources to the collection of better climate data and use them in the right way.
By
Carlo Ratti and
Robert Muggah
Far from rendering cities obsolete, the pandemic has unlocked an ever-broader potential for renaissance – what the economist Joseph Schumpeter famously called 'creative destruction' on an urban scale.
By
Carlo Ratti and
Richard Florida
Absolute temperatures are expected to rise more slowly in the tropics than in higher latitudes and polar regions, but the combination of heat and rising humidity will make life more challenging.
By
James Shulmeister
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In this new podcast series 'Climate Tech in Asia', Eco-Business speaks to Gogoro chairman and CEO Horace Luke about the company's recent listing on the Nasdaq and its quest to electrify Asia's ubiquitous two-wheelers and make battery swapping mainstream.
