Asia worried about climate change, Africa about environment-development trade-off

Experts from around the world express concerns over biodiversity

People in Asia-Pacific consuming more milk, protein

Transition in diet due to urbanisation and rising income levels, FAO report says

Sri Lanka to harvest rainwater to boost irrigation, power

The new project will begin this month and end in 2024

No alternative

Asia turns to nuclear power as the demand for energy soars

Fastest loss of forests in Asia

Imminent deluge

Asian countries risk becoming the dumping ground for the world's burgeoning waste trade

Do or die development

CREATING AWARENESS

Saving steps

Fuel for warming the globe

A collapse in the price of fossil fuel means bad news for efforts to curb global warming

Asian origins

QED

Cancer in the region of the Aral Sea linked to its drying up

Price war

Stemming the rot

Asia's regional domain

From the blurbs

South Asia has lost most human capital due to air pollution: World Bank

World Bank releases the Changing Wealth of Nations report that says environmental degradation is leading to a decline in overall wealth

Over 80% hypertension patients live in low- and middle-income countries

Treatment and control rates in Nepal, Indonesia and several countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania were particularly low

Ulcerative colitis explained, as Shinzo Abe retires

Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has announced that he is retiring due to worsening health. The condition 65-year-old Abe suffers from …

Camera traps click ties between species in Sumatra

The traps, deployed for eight years as part of a study, recorded the haunts and habits of dozens of species

Ten zero-waste cities: How Seoul came to be among the best in recycling

Strong policy instruments and good implementation did the trick for South Korea's capital

Don’t drive Indian farmers to suicide through RCEP

India's political leadership seems to be favouring narrow corporate interests over those of the people

Farmers in this Nepal district struggle to cope with crop raiding by wild animals

Almost all farmers in Aiddhungra, Budechaur and Bagargot villages have abandoned maize and millet farming due to increasing incursions by wild animals

Angkor Wat archaeological digs yield new clues to its civilization’s decline

By looking at the events associated with one particular temple, archaeologists are able to see a microcosm of some of the broader regional …

Fake medicine from the sea

That terrestrial species like the rhino and tiger are targeted for use in Traditional Chinese Medicine is well known. What is not is that this …