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SINGAPORE – Satellite images of Kranji woodland shared on social media on Thursday (Feb 18) showed over 8ha of forested land being cleared since last…
View More Satellite images show over 8ha of Kranji woodland was cleared almost a year before JTC knew
TAIPEI (AFP) – Nearly a third of Taiwan’s corals are dying from bleaching caused by warming oceans, in an alarming phenomenon that poses a severe…
View More 'Corals are being cooked': A third of Taiwan's reefs are dying
Conservation experts are becoming increasingly concerned with surgical mask litter all over the island. Cleanup groups here have been picking up an average of four…
View More Increase in mask litter at Singapore's parks and beaches
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Monday (Jan 4) it has made final its plan to open up vast areas…
View More Last-minute White House decision opens more Arctic land to oil leasing
SINGAPORE – Residents of East Coast GRC can look forward to more green spaces and also opportunities to take part in initiatives which protect the…
View More More community gardens, opportunities to participate in green initiatives for East Coast residents
TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed on Monday (Oct 26) to build a carbon-neutral “green society” by 2050, marking a paradigm shift for…
View More Suga sets 2050 goal for Japan to be carbon neutral
PARIS (AFP) – The world has lost nearly 100 million hectares of forests in two decades, marking a steady decline though at a slower pace…
View More World lost 100 million hectares of forest in two decades: UN
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – The world is failing to address a catastrophic biodiversity collapse that not only threatens to wipe out beloved species and invaluable…
View More A 'crossroads' for humanity: Earth's biodiversity is still collapsing
CHAGAR HUTANG (AFP) – Aziz Mustaffa used to collect turtles’ eggs from a Malaysian beach and sell them. But nowadays, he makes a living as…
View More From egg hunter to protector, Malaysian battles to save turtles
BANGKOK (AFP) – Environmentalists have criticised Laos for pressing ahead with plans for another “destructive dam” on the Mekong River, a waterway already strangled by…
View More Laos to press ahead with 'destructive' new dam on Mekong river
TOKYO – A top Japanese public financier of foreign development projects has said it will stop accepting loan applications for coal power plants, as global…
View More Japan public financier to stop approving loans for coal projects
BANGKOK (REUTERS) – South-east Asian countries, among the world’s worst ocean polluters, need tougher regulations for plastic packaging to curb leakage, a United Nations report…
View More South-east Asian countries need tougher plastic policies to curb pollution: UN
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – California’s biggest, most ruinous wildfire this year, a wind-driven blaze that scorched 310 square kilometres of Sonoma County wine country and…
View More Year's most destructive California wildfire declared extinguished after 2 weeks
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Depending on how you want to read the numbers, the humble hamburger is a bigger contributor to the warming of the…
View More Meat-free burgers turn climate concerns into a sales pitch