Tag: Environment
Families in Laos’ capital say sand-dredging destroying their village
Sand dredging is a problem in other riparian communities along the Mekong, including Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam
Greenpeace warns of something ‘fishy’ in Philippines’ ‘midnight nuclear deals’
The Philippines and the US signed an MOU that aims to boost cooperation on developing the Philippines’ nuclear energy program
Green activists call on Philippine gov’t to stop playing with dirty...
Greenpeace says that nuclear power will not solve the climate crisis, saying that the nuclear plant life cycle contributes to climate change
Salinization in Mekong Delta in Vietnam to spike in March, says...
Salinity intrusion is an increasingly serious issue caused by climate change and upstream water resource management
Australia orders 200,000 to flee floods moving towards Sydney
Authorities issued severe rain and wind warnings for a 400-kilometer (250-mile) stretch of coast as water levels rose rapidly
Attacks against environmental defenders quadrupled ahead of Philippine polls
The group Kalikasan PNE raised concern that election-related violence might be deliberately targeting defenders
From bad to worse: key IPCC findings on climate impacts
Severe climate impacts -- once seen as a problem on the horizon -- have become a here-and-now reality
The butterfly effect: tropical butterflies spread as monarchs dwindle in East...
Sparked by global warming and other forms of climate change, tropical butterflies are starting to arrive in Hong Kong and Taiwan
The most precious of all
Global warming is evaporating lakes, reservoirs and melting the glaciers in the mountains around the world
Last Irrawaddy dolphin in northeastern Cambodia dies
“This latest river dolphin death highlights how vulnerable these and other species remain.”
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