Air pollution in cities across Asia has reached a dangerous tipping point, ROBYN WILSON reports
… Air pollution in cities across Asia has reached a dangerous tipping point Robyn Wilson | 28th November 2017 News Asia Pollution Air Coal Energy Greenpeace … Air pollution in cities across Asia has reached a dangerous tipping point, …
Renewable energy could supply Russia and Central Asian countries with 100% of their electricity needs by 2030, writes Paul Brown - and cut costs significantly compared to nuclear power and CO2-abated fossil fuels.
… Asia's low-cost path to 100% renewable power … Fossil Fuels Climate Change Russia Central Asia … energy could supply Russia and Central Asian countries with 100% of their electricity … says that Russia and the countries of Central Asia could become a highly energy-competitive …
Response measures have forced coastal communities in South Asia to choose between a super cyclonic storm or shelters with no physical distancing.
… Covid and climate disasters in South Asia Rabiya Jaffery | 22nd July 2020 News South Asia International Editor’s Picks Climate … have forced coastal communities in South Asia to choose between a super cyclonic storm …
Following our exclusive investigation, Ingvild Jenssen from the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking explains how tougher regulations simply relocated the shipbreaking industry, and how the public can help stop the trade
… Shipbreaking: clampdown in Asia will send it to Africa The Ecologist | … vessels are sold to shipbreakers in South Asia for approximately $350 per ton – meaning … and the industry then moved to South Asia. It has therefore been a continuous …
The free-flowing Salween is the last big undammed river in Southeast Asia, home to a flurry of endangered species including tigers and clouded leopards, writes Tom Fawthrop in Hpa-an, Karen State, Myanmar. And thanks to support from both the indigenous Karen people, and senior officials in China who see the huge ecotourism potential of the river and its dramatic gorge, it could just stay that way.
… Saving the Salween: Southeast Asia's last major undammed river Tom Fawthorp … is the last big undammed river in Southeast Asia, home to a flurry of endangered species … is the last important undammed river in East Asia, where endangered species including …
China has now overtaken the European Union as the largest new market for solar power, writes Paul Brown - as solar PV becomes one of the world's fastest growing industries - and one that's sure to keep on getting cheaper!
… Asia powers into the forefront of solar … Economics Solar Wind EU Africa China Asia solar_leo_house_bipv-cut.jpg China has … Italy, led the way in solar installation, but Asia and the US are now catching up fast. …
Vultures have become one of the most threatened families of birds on the planet thanks to poisoning by the veterinary drug diclofenac. Now Birdlife has discovered that it's on sale in Europe - threatening to wipe vultures out and undermine significant EU investments in vulture conservation.
… recent catastrophic declines of vultures in Asia that left landscapes littered with … BirdLife International in Europe and Central Asia. And that means they are for human and … has already wiped out vultures in South Asia Used to treat inflammation in livestock, …
Campaigners urge retailers to follow example of Tesco and Adidas in cutting links with the controversial paper and packaging supplier after latest allegations of greenwashing
… hits back at 'notorious forest destroyer' Asia Pulp and Paper The Ecologist | 23rd February 2011 News Greenpeace Asian Pulp And Paper Deforestation Indonesia … a comment piece in the Ecologist last month, Asian Pulp and Paper (APP) said activists were …
Golden Rice will only strengthen the grip of corporations over rice and agriculture, endangering agrobiodiversity and human health.
… | News GMO Genetic Modification Golden Rice Asia Food Systems Science Systems Science & … According to Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Asia Pacific, Jean Balie , IRRI’s head of … 2013. Malnutrition The importance of rice in Asian countries cannot be understated. Ninety …
Biodiversity in Southeast Asia was severely disrupted due to El Niño forest fires, reports BRENDAN MONTAGUE
… 2017 News Forest Fire El Nino Southeast Asia 405316.jpg Biodiversity in Southeast Asia was severely disrupted due to El Niño … BRENDAN MONTAGUE Forest fires in Southeast Asia during the El Niño droughts of 2015 …
Farmers’ organisations, trade union federations, indigenous peoples, fisher groups, women’s organisations, environmental groups and progressive political parties met in Hyderabad, South India.
… South Asian coalition links climate with social … | 26th February 2020 News Change Makers South Asia India Crisis Emissions Unions Struggle … India. The climate justice movement in South Asia and India is moving in new …
Earlier this month, The Ecologist published an impassioned opinion piece by Mary Rice, asserting that the fault for the alarming rise in elephant poaching lies with legal CITIES-approved sales of ivory. These sales, she argued, had served only to trigger new levels of demand. Here, Daniel Stiles strongly disagrees.......
… many elephant sub-populations in Africa and Asia now facing extirpation - primarily as a … trade expert, and myself in Japan, South East Asia, Europe and the USA has found no rise in … mid-1990s.' In 2001 we surveyed South East Asia and found, in part, 'Unfortunately, it …
Korea's Jeju Island has been dedicated to peace ever since over 30,000 people were massacred there in 1948, writes Mica Cloughley. But now the US's 'pivot to Asia' demands a new naval base rejected by 94% of voters, and mobile phone giant Samsung is leading the construction project. Islanders are fighting every inch of the way.
… Mica Cloughley. But now the US's 'pivot to Asia' demands a new naval base rejected by 94% … for a crime. A victim of America's 'pivot to Asia' But whose business are these … crown jewel of President Obama's 'pivot to Asia', which is essentially a semi-circle of …
Industrial-scale farms are being used to supply big cats for use in traditional asian medicines, new study finds.
… medicine Staff Reporter | 10th July 2019 News Asian Medicine Traditional Medicine Lions Big … to supply big cats for use in traditional asian medicines, new study finds. World Animal … as lions and tigers due to the Traditional Asian Medicine trade. WAP's first ever global …
Ahead of this week's 29th meeting of the CITES Animals Committee, in Geneva, Switzerland, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals how the legal trade in lion bones from captive-bred lions serves only to exacerbate and drive the illegal trade in wild tiger parts
… drive the illegal trade in wild tiger parts Asia's massive unchecked demand for skins, … tiger parts to less-discerning consumers in Asia. At the heart of the lion trade is South … exports threaten endangered wild tigers in Asia African lions are listed under CITES …
Two thirds of the world's investment in building new power generation until 2030 may go to renewable energy, reports Rosie Murray-West, causing CO2 emissions to peak at end of the 2020s.
… About half of the investment will be in Asia, where power capacity will grow the most - Asia will account for $2.5 trillion of the … and a half. Capacity will expand the most in Asia, where new solar sites will exceed gas …
Anna Taylor reports on the highly lucrative illegal trade in Python skin which now threatens to overtake the tightly-controlled legal trade and warns if this happens, it will be catastrophic for the populations of these beautiful reptiles.
… The report, entitled “The Trade in South-East Asian Python Skins”, was backed by the … survival of pythons. Pythons in South-East Asia are traded for food and traditional … species traded most often from South-East Asia is the world’s longest snake, the …
Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith joins the Sustainable Eel Group to showcase the barriers to eel conservation.
… trafficked every year from Europe to Asia, accounting for almost one quarter of the … the illegal import of eel meat coming from Asia containing DNA of the European Eel. … out of the EU, put into eel farms in Asia and then sent back to the US, Canada and …
Marine turned TV sensation Bruce Parry has lived with indigenous tribes people in Africa, South America and South East Asia for his award winning BBC programmes. His latest venture is an independent film, TAWAI - A voice from the forest. He tells BRENDAN MONTAGUE why its message is almost too astonishing to believe.
… in Africa, South America and South East Asia for his award winning BBC programmes. His … led science exhibitions in South East Asia, and then became an award winning BBC … people in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. He was richly rewarded for his pains. …
A succession of mega-corporations that have been driving rainforest destruction in Indonesia have recently announced 'no deforestation' policies. Bill Lawrance asks: is it too good to be true?
… across the tropics, especially in southeast Asia. Golden Agri Resources led the way, … growing pressure, its sister company APP (Asia Pulp & Paper) followed suit early last … more open and forthcoming. Youtube video: Asia Pulp & Paper now has a ‘zero …
One of the world's most endangered animals is being smuggled out of Central Africa into Asia via remote ivory trade routes. The highly prized Pangolin is being targeted by animal traffickers for its much sought after meat and scales. CATHERINE HARTE reports
… is being smuggled out of Central Africa into Asia via remote ivory trade routes. The highly … selling increasing numbers of the animals to Asian workers stationed on the continent for … as the demand markets are similar.” Found in Asia and Africa, pangolins are scaled, …
In 1975 Indonesia invaded the small Pacific country of East Timor, writes John Pilger, and then massacred a third of its population to suppress demands for independence. Now unearthed documents show the genocide was supported by Australia so it could grab the oil and gas reserves of the Timor Sea. Despite East Timor's independence, won in 1999, Australia is still stealing its oil and gas revenues worth $5 billion and counting.
… of the 20th century." 'A gleam of light in Asia' This was greeted in the Western press as "a gleam of light in Asia" ( Time ). The BBC's correspondent in South East Asia, Roland Challis, later described the …
The Philippines were meant to be the US's sandbox for GMO development and penetration into southeast Asia, but that has all changed with a Supreme Court decision to ban GMO crop trials pending the development of new biosafety protocols.
… development and penetration into southeast Asia, but that has all changed with a Supreme … court ruled in favour of Greenpeace Southeast Asia , as well as several Filipino activists, … regulatory process. Greenpeace Southeast Asia is calling on the Philippines government …
A new study from the University of East Anglia shows the ozone is under threat from new unregulated chemicals. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports.
… of these very short-lived chemicals in East Asia, and shows how they can be carried up … damaging because of cold-air surges in East Asia that can quickly carry industrial … emissions [of dichloromethane], with other Asian countries, including India, likely to be …