Environment

Since the start of last week, divers and a specially equipped boat with lifting gear have been fishing out hundreds of tyres. Photo: AFP

Yes, this sea sanctuary made of 25,000 car tyres was a silly idea

What seemed a like a crazy idea turned out to be just that: a 1980s experiment that saw 25,000 car tyres dumped into the crystal-clear waters of the Mediterranean to create a sanctuary for sealife off the French coast is being cleaned up after it was found to be polluting.

24 Sep 2018 - 10:32am

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23 Sep 2018 - 6:54pm 1

Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar arrive at the border of Bangladesh in 2017. War and politics are common factors in mass migration, but soon climate change may be too. Photo: AFP

Next, a possible flood of climate-change refugees threatens

23 Sep 2018 - 7:21pm

A woman wears a protective face mask to fight bad air pollution on a street in Beijing this summer. Photo: AFP

China leads global focus on green financing, says top PBOC official

22 Sep 2018 - 8:01am 4

Scavengers work with head lamps as they look for useful items to use or sell at the Truitier landfill, as trash burns behind them in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo: AP

World waste could grow 70 per cent as cities boom, warns World Bank

21 Sep 2018 - 9:40pm

Sewage has been leaking into the sea from the treatment facility Sai Kung. Photo: Facebook

Sewage leaks into Hong Kong's ‘back garden’ after typhoon

21 Sep 2018 - 10:09am

Activists from WildAid stage a protest at Maxim's at the University of Hong Kong. Photo: Edward Wong

Maxim’s to stop serving shark fin by 2020

21 Sep 2018 - 1:33am 16

It is unethical, if not hypocritical, for the government to preach responsible recycling when it does not set a good example. Photo: Imaginechina

Halt auctions ahead of laws on e-waste

20 Sep 2018 - 11:33pm 1

Experts say the city desperately needs to recover, recycle and reduce the use of plastic as the export market for waste product dries up. But others believe the solution must go beyond recycling, and that science will save us

Rethinking waste: what next as China bans imports and recycling fails?

19 Sep 2018 - 2:35pm 7

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How Hong Kong's village houses and offices could soon be saving with solar

19 Sep 2018 - 4:32pm 4

A handsome pear seedling, once embraced as the ubiquitous tree of post-war suburban America, has turned aggressively invasive from Texas to New York

How a dream tree from China became a nightmare on US soil

18 Sep 2018 - 8:48pm 1

Hydrogen trains are equipped with fuel cells that produce electricity through a combination of hydrogen and oxygen, a process that leaves steam and water as the only emissions

Behold, the world’s first hydrogen-powered train

18 Sep 2018 - 9:47pm 9

Furniture made from Vietnamese rosewood on sale at a shop in Beijing. The richly hued hardwood is being illegally cut from Southeast Asian forests, then smuggled and turned into Chinese furniture. Photo: AP

Crazy rich Chinese demand for rosewood propels drive toward extinction

18 Sep 2018 - 3:20am 8

In 2016, Hong Kong sent about 2,000 tonnes of plastic waste daily to local landfills, a weight equal to that of 135 double-decker buses. Photo: Dickson Lee

Would Hong Kong pay to have its plastics problem melt away?

17 Sep 2018 - 7:04pm 1

A squirrel carries a walnut in Portland, Maine. A bumper crop of acorns, pine cones and other staples last year led to a population boom of squirrels. Photo: AP

Huge squirrel population chomps crops, driving New England farmers nuts

16 Sep 2018 - 11:27pm

Workers assemble air conditioners at a Gree Electric Appliances factory in Wuhan, China. China is already the world’s top producer of air conditioners and is expected to be a key player in the installation of 1 billion more globally over the next decade. Photo: EPA

Can China cool its red-hot air-conditioning market?

18 Sep 2018 - 9:48am 2

An arborist trimming trees in Sai Kung. Photo: May Tse

Tree management tendering up for review amid collusion concerns

15 Sep 2018 - 11:32pm 1

A rice paddy in Jiangxi province, China. Photo: Xinhua

Greenhouse gases from rice paddies ‘as high as 200 coal power plants’

11 Sep 2018 - 8:44am 1

Members of government committee play down concerns, saying majority sit on subcommittee that has already vetted CLP Power’s report

Green group fears natural gas facility will be ‘rubber-stamped’

10 Sep 2018 - 9:15am 4

Near endangered, finless porpoises are extremely sensitive to noise. Photo: Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society

Piling for offshore gas plant could deafen marine mammals, WWF warns

10 Sep 2018 - 7:53am 5

An artist’s impression of landscape design at Tianjin Gulang Water Town, a luxury housing project in northeast China. Green is the new buzzword for developers and their customers. Image: HOK

In changing China, luxury living is now about being green

10 Sep 2018 - 8:15pm

Survey from World Green Organisation finds that record hot spell and torrential rain means city’s residents are opting not to walk when they could

Extreme weather drives Hongkongers off the streets and into cars

9 Sep 2018 - 9:48pm 13

More conflicts of interest in tree safety revealed, after death of Jumiati Supadi two weeks ago

More conflicts of interest in tree safety revealed after helper’s death

9 Sep 2018 - 9:48pm 5

A woman with a placard that reads “I vote for the planet”, during a demonstration for the climate, in Marseille, France, on Saturday. The march was part of a global day of protest ahead of a climate action summit later this month in San Francisco, California. Photo: AP

Global protests unroll as key UN climate talks stumble

9 Sep 2018 - 2:57am

The 600-meter long floating boom will be towed to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – an island of trash twice the size of Texas

Massive boom aims to shrink the island of trash floating in Pacific Ocean

9 Sep 2018 - 2:14am

The current craze for hardy succulents, which started in South Korea and spread to China, has resulted in organised gangs stripping the US state of a plant crucial to its fragile coastal ecosystem

How Californian plant lovers are stalking Asian smuggling rings

9 Sep 2018 - 10:01pm 2

A rubbish-strewn beach in the southern Chinese province of Hainan. Around 10 million tonnes of plastic waste are currently dumped in the sea each year. Photo: AFP

How Chinese scientists hope to use the sea to fight plastic pollution

7 Sep 2018 - 11:24pm 3

California governor Jerry Brown shakes hands with China's Science and Technology Minister Wan Gang after signing a memorandum of understanding of Clean Technology in Beijing in June 2017. Photo: AP

China and California talk clean energy but their actions are dirty

7 Sep 2018 - 5:52pm 3

Au Fung-lan, 67, gathers polystyrene boxes in Kwai Fong. Photo: Edward Wong

A day on the road with Hong Kong’s scavenging ‘cardboard grannies’

7 Sep 2018 - 11:18am 14

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