Tag: Environment
Help stop the extinction of a million species
More than 10,000 wild species are harvested for human food with one-in-five people dependent on such species for income and food
Without land, Bangladesh’s Manta people live – and die – on...
Eroding Bangladeshi rivers stole their land - and now climate change and overfishing threaten the life they have built on water
Philippine greens urge new Environment chief to impose moratorium on destructive...
"With her experience, we expect her to use and rely more on science-based analysis to decide on environmental policies and practices"
Pacific leaders struggle to keep focus on climate at key summit
Geopolitical jostling between the United States and China has been building since Solomon Islands signed a security pact
After Lao rivers run red, authorities order iron mine to stop...
The water turns red when the mines wash iron and release waste into the river, a resident said
Study says most Filipinos see climate change as something ‘personal’
About 82 percent of respondents in the Philippines consider the issue of climate change as either “extremely important” or “very important”
Thousands evacuate from ‘dangerous’ Sydney floods
Many people had been trapped in their cars trying to cross flood-swept roads or were unable to leave homes surrounded by rising waters
Dead rivers: The cost of Bangladesh’s garment-driven economic boom
Environmentalists say growth has come at an incalculable cost, with a toxic melange of dyes, tanning acids and other dangerous chemicals
Catholic social action workers back campaign vs open-pit mining in Philippine...
“We pray that with this collective voice and action, the national government ... will heed the call of its people"
Hundreds of thousands evacuated in China after heaviest rains in decades
The downpours have dangerously swelled waterways in the low-lying Pearl River basin in recent days
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