International: Asia
Sunny Southeast Asia just doesn't get solar
4 Oct 2017
Southeast Asia has double the solar energy potential of Northern Europe, but the market hype is not living up to the reality on the ground.
Delhi chokes on US exports of tar sands waste
29 Sep 2017
India has emerged as the world’s largest importer of petroleum coke, an oil byproduct that is now a major cause of pollution in the capital.
Palm oil giant makes debut in sustainability index
26 Sep 2017
Singapore palm oil company Golden Agri-Resources has been featured in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for the first time.
India is about to embark on stupendous e-car changes
21 Sep 2017
India, the world’s fifth-largest car market is readying for a stupendous transformation: moving completely toward electric vehicles by 2030.
Shrinking glaciers threaten water supply of millions
15 Sep 2017
Asia’s mountain glaciers will lose at least a third of their mass through global warming by the century’s end, with dire consequences for millions of people.
Indonesia chases firms to pay for forest damage
31 Aug 2017
The Indonesian government is struggling to collect fines from companies found guilty of damaging the environment, leaving trashed rainforests and peat swamps to stay barren.
Himalayas hold their ground as world weather gets warmer
31 Aug 2017
Asia’s glaciers are holding out against global warming and are melting more slowly than expected.
In these highlands climate change is a death sentence
30 Aug 2017
Climate change should be taken as seriously as fighting insurgents, say those witnessing the savage impact first-hand.
Climate change threatens Pacific Rim farm trade
29 Aug 2017
The United Nations agriculture agency is calling on Asia-Pacific economies to take a leading role in climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Coal to power India for decades, says government
29 Aug 2017
Coal will maintain its dominant share of India’s electricity production for decades to come, according to a major report from the government.
COLOURFUL CANINES: Waste gives Mumbai dogs the blues
24 Aug 2017
Authorities in Mumbai have shut down a manufacturing company after it was accused of dumping untreated industrial waste and dyes into a local river that resulted in dogs turning blue.
Drought legacy can be a lingering death
18 Aug 2017
A climate hazard that doesn’t disappear when the rainclouds gather, drought’s lingering death can delay recovery a very long time.
THE IMRAN EFFECT: Pakistanis plant billion trees for their hero
17 Aug 2017
Inspired by national cricket hero Imran Khan, a province in Pakistan has planted a billion trees in just two years.
China puts Tibet's fragile ecosystem in danger
9 Aug 2017
Rising temperatures on the roof of the world make Tibet both a driver and amplifier of global warming. China’s unchecked mining and dam building has to be reigned in.
HOT AS HELL: These heatwaves will kill even healthy people
4 Aug 2017
Extreme heatwaves that kill even healthy people within hours will strike parts of the Indian subcontinent unless global carbon emissions are cut sharply and soon.
Study links climate change and 60,000 farming suicides
3 Aug 2017
Climate change might have contributed to the suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers and farm workers over the past three decades.
Solar not cheaper than coal, says former mining boss
27 Jul 2017
India’s future is still tied to coal and fixing woeful inefficient plants will create huge new generation at a price solar cannot match.
India diverts $25 billion away from clean energy
26 Jul 2017
The Indian government is diverting $25 billion earmarked for clean energy to an unrelated policy, a national news site has revealed.
Asian temperature rise could be disastrous
24 Jul 2017
Profligate fossil fuel use could cause Asian temperatures to rise by 6deg , bringing floods and food shortages for hundreds of millions.
Hanoi choking on fumes of five million motorbikes
24 Jul 2017
The roads of Vietnam’s capital have been taken over by the two-wheeled horde, but bringing in a ban by 2030 will be a tough ask.
Asia coal boom bankrolled by foreign money
21 Jul 2017
The much-discussed boom in coal-fired power in south-east Asia is being bankrolled by foreign governments and banks, with the vast majority of projects apparently too risky for the private sector.
Japan to export renewable energy expertise
17 Jul 2017
Japan plans to export its expertise in renewable energy technologies such as low-emitting geothermal, solar and hydrogen power.
Indian utility bets $10 billion on coal power
6 Jul 2017
India's state-run power utility plans to invest $10 billion in new coal-fired power stations over the next five years.
India gets busy and plants 66 million trees in 12 hours
5 Jul 2017
In India, about 1.5 million volunteers have planted more than 66 million trees in just 12 hours as part of a record-breaking environmental campaign.
MODI AND ADANI: Old friends who are laying waste to India
29 Jun 2017
India’s environment has been subjugated to the whims of the prime minister’s industrial cronies. How can the world believe him on climate change?
South Korea to scrap coal and nuclear power
22 Jun 2017
The new President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in has committed his country to phasing out all coal and nuclear power stations suggesting a major change in energy policy for the Asian state.
India and Pakistan scrap over the mighty Indus
15 Jun 2017
Fast-growing populations and increasing demand for hydropower and irrigation are putting one of Asia's great rivers under intense pressure.
Singapore opens sustainability academy
15 Jun 2017
The Singapore Sustainability Academy has been built to highest energy efficiency and green building standards and will serve as the city-state’s sustainability learning and collaboration hub.
Companies could have profits from breaking environment laws stripped under Australian reforms
23 Oct 2025
The Albanese government wants the power to strip companies of any financial gains made from breaking environment laws, as part of a package of landmark reforms to be put before parliament in the next two weeks.
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
Thu 30 Oct 2025
Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%.
The Yangtze River is becoming the world’s largest electrified trade corridor
Thu 30 Oct 2025
The Gezhouba, a new 13,000-ton all-electric bulk carrier launched in Yichang, is more than a technical milestone. It is a sign that the electrification of inland shipping is moving from concept to inevitability.
Norway faces European Court climate ruling over oil licences
Wed 29 Oct 2025
The European Court of Human Rights will decide on Tuesday if Norway breached its climate obligations when it awarded Arctic oil exploration licenses in 2016.
UK Prime Minister will attend Brazil climate summit
21 Oct 2025
Keir Starmer will travel to the Amazon rainforest for the COP30 United Nations climate summit next month, Downing Street has confirmed, after weeks of speculation that he would not.
Renewables are a global economic engine, not a culture war threat
2 Oct 2025
Energy companies are learning this lesson faster than Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
Mystery heatwave warms Pacific Ocean to new record
21 Oct 2025
The waters of the north Pacific have had their warmest summer on record, according to BBC analysis of a mysterious marine heatwave that has confounded climate scientists.
Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica
13 Oct 2025
Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate".
Angola lowers climate ambition in blow to spirit of Paris Agreement
14 Oct 2025
Angola has scaled back its targets for reducing emissions in its new national climate plan, saying it chose “realism and implementability” over the Paris Agreement's calls for governments to set progressively more ambitious goals.
Police raids in Brazil’s Rio kill 64 ahead of events related to COP30 climate summit
Thu 30 Oct 2025
At least 64 people died on Oct 28 in Rio de Janeiro’s most deadly police operation ever, which targeted a major gang days before the city hosts global events related to the United Nations climate summit known as COP30.
Most countries fail to submit new climate pledges ahead of summit
Wed 29 Oct 2025
Only 64 countries have submitted new plans to cut carbon, the UN says, despite all being required to do so ahead of next month's COP30 summit.
