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Latest news and updates about issues impacting the global environment, including climate change, recycling, pollution and sustainable living.

Video | Vietnam’s recyclers risk cancer in toxic villages

UN study finds ‘very high’ lead and dioxin levels in Vietnamese communities handling domestic and imported plastic waste, with residents reporting widespread illness.

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Business of climate change

Video | Australian start-up aims to turn algae into green fuel

19 Dec 2025 - 4:00PM

Indonesian elephants tasked to help in flood recovery spur conservation debate

19 Dec 2025 - 11:00AM

Good Schools Guide

How outdoor classrooms are shaping young minds, from Denmark to Hong Kong

Malvern College and International College believe in the power of outdoor learning and growing in nature’s classroom to build curiosity and resilience.

19 Dec 2025 - 6:00AM

Forest schools such as International College Hong Kong Hong Lok Yuen (ICHKHLY) offer manifold educational and mental benefits. Photo: Handout

Don’t build on ‘active zones’, experts warn Indonesia as Sumatra recovery begins

Jakarta has pledged US$3.6 billion and a special agency to help restore homes and public facilities destroyed in last month’s cyclone.

18 Dec 2025 - 6:00PMvideocam

‘Not able to breathe’: denial, deflection, dodgy data worsen India’s air crisis

‘Fed up’ citizens and experts demand honest action to tackle pollution that causes 1.5 million additional deaths every year in India.

18 Dec 2025 - 2:04PMvideocam

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Delhi battles severe pollution with traffic bans, work-from-home order

Every winter, Delhi’s air pollution surges as cold air traps vehicle, construction, and crop-burning emissions, causing severe health risks.

17 Dec 2025 - 7:50PMvideocam

Vehicles move on a road amid heavy smog near New Delhi, India on Monday. Photo: EPA

EU drops 2035 combustion engine ban in victory for its carmakers

Europe pivots to bolstering its crisis-hit auto sector in a major green policy retreat.

17 Dec 2025 - 2:08PM

Arctic has hottest year ever recorded, as climate impacts cascade

The region is warming far faster than the global average due to a phenomenon known as ‘Arctic Amplification’.

18 Dec 2025 - 6:25PMvideocam

Dirty, dangerous, cancer-prone: toxic truth about Vietnam’s recycling villages

‘There’s no shortage of cancer cases in this village,’ a worker, who has been sorting plastic in Xa Cau for a decade, says.

16 Dec 2025 - 11:42AMvideocam

A woman picks up plastic waste at a landfill on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam. Photo: AFP

Indonesia to revoke 22 forestry permits after fatal floods

Environmentalists and experts have highlighted the role forest loss played in deadly flash flooding and landslides.

15 Dec 2025 - 8:06PMvideocam

Boats used to ferry passengers across a river are seen near a collapsed bridge in Indonesia’s Aceh province in the aftermath of deadly flash floods this month. Photo: AFP

‘Didn’t know where to go’: tourists struggle in Japan quake evacuation

Foreign visitors were left scrambling for multilingual information after Monday’s magnitude 7.5 earthquake.

13 Dec 2025 - 10:21AMvideocam

Video | Mapping China’s quest to green its deserts

In 2024, China completed a 3,050km green belt that surrounds the Taklamakan, the country’s second largest desert.

12 Dec 2025 - 7:23PM

US-China relations

Senior Democrat urges Rubio to fill Arctic post and halt rise of China, Russia

In a letter, Raja Krishnamoorthi asks US Secretary of State to restore key US role in ‘one of the world’s most strategically vital regions’.

12 Dec 2025 - 11:50PMvideocam

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has come under increasing pressure to fill the State Department’s vacant post for Arctic affairs to help curb China and Russia’s influence in the region. Photo: Xinhua

Airbnb ban in Bali? Indonesia says no, but crackdown on illegal stays looms

Bali’s governor wants to ban the online platform but the island’s problems with illegal rentals go beyond Airbnb, critics say.

11 Dec 2025 - 10:51PMvideocam

An aerial view of Denpasar shows the many hotels and lodgings in the area. Photo: Shutterstock

‘I have to wear a mask all the time’: Hanoi’s smog hits crisis levels

On Thursday, Hanoi was the world’s fourth most-polluted city, with officials citing vehicles, industry, and crop burning for the poor air quality.

11 Dec 2025 - 4:44PM

Opinion | How China is cementing its central role as the architect of green tech

Beyond climate leadership and capacity building, China is rewriting its own energy system – and the global energy order.

11 Dec 2025 - 4:30PMvideocam

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‘Could go extinct here’: orangutans at risk as Indonesia floods devastate habitat

Orangutans have disappeared since landslides struck Sipirok in North Sumatra province.

9 Dec 2025 - 10:00PMvideocam

A Tapanuli orangutan, and its young, hanging on a tree in Batang Toru, Tapanuli, North Sumatra, Indonesia in 2015. Photo: Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme/EPA-EFE

Is Indonesian disaster response failing Sumatra’s flood victims?

Prabowo’s government is ‘busy bragging about its quick reaction’ while deaths mount and people suffer from lack of aid, critics say.

9 Dec 2025 - 6:31PMvideocam

Jakarta office building fire kills 22, including pregnant woman

The cause is under investigation, but witnesses reported seeing a battery spark in the testing area of the building belonging to a drone company.

10 Dec 2025 - 5:49PMvideocam

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

‘We have this gift’: Hong Kong film shows healing power of city’s nature

Never Too Late shows how four Hongkongers found balance and freedom in the city’s natural spaces and why people should cherish its beauty.

8 Dec 2025 - 6:15PMvideocam

Diver and environmentalist Hidy Yu in a still from the Hong Kong documentary Never Too Late. Photo: Edko Films

Video | Force of Kilauea eruption knocks out remote camera

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been erupting intermittently since December 2024.

9 Dec 2025 - 6:27PM

China desalination tech makes fresh water cheaper than tap water – plus hydrogen

Facility in Shandong province also produces mineral-rich brine for industrial use, achieving ‘one-in, three-out’ circular economy.

8 Dec 2025 - 1:22AMvideocam

India to pause coal power expansion beyond 2035 amid grid stress

Several Indian utilities are signing contracts with coal-fired power generators to meet a projected surge in demand for cooling.

8 Dec 2025 - 2:50AM

627 dead in Sri Lanka landslides as rains batter South, Southeast Asia

At least 1,812 people have been killed in the natural disasters rolling across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

7 Dec 2025 - 7:45PM

An aerial view of flooded Niyamgamdora, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters

Opinion | Fashion industry must tailor climate plans to Asian suppliers’ reality

Efforts to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions in the fashion industry will not work if they rest on a Western design paired with Eastern sacrifice.

7 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM

A worker holds a piece of clothing at a factory in Depok, Indonesia, on April 25, 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/ADI WEDA

Extreme weather

Letters | Asia is waking up to storms that are stronger – and more polluted

Readers discuss new research that shows how typhoons spread microplastic pollution, encouraging the use of an anti-scam app, and the migrant domestic workers who fell victim to the Tai Po fire.

6 Dec 2025 - 11:30AM

The Philippines

6 cyclones, 5 weeks: Philippines can’t escape its endless cycle of disaster

Corruption, complacency and climate chaos conspire to turn the Philippines’ natural hazards into man-made tragedies.

6 Dec 2025 - 8:17AMvideocam

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