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How environmental change is shaping Southeast Asia.

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • yesterday • 11 min read

Burmese politics A town built on malice

By Nic Dunlop • yesterday
From our print archive: In a country where many cannot afford a bicycle, limousines whisk military bigwigs along eight-lane highways to the soulless splendour of Myanmar’s new jungle capital

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Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 08, 2019 • 12 min read

Powering Southeast Asia Fanning the flames

By Simon Roughneen • Oct 08, 2019
Southeast Asia’s growing economies have huge power generation needs, fuelling coal use across the region even as the rest of the world looks to greener methods

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 04, 2019 • 5 min read

Cambodia Wildlife Where the small things are

By Jeremy Holden • Oct 04, 2019
From our print archive: At first glance, Cambodia’s rainforests may seem bereft of wildlife, but a closer looks reveals a profusion of tiny and often unique creatures

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Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 27, 2019 • 13 min read

Indonesia Disasters Washed away

By Simon Roughneen • Sep 27, 2019
Last year’s tragedies forced authorities to better prepare for the disasters that are inevitable across the seismically hyperactive, drought and flood-prone archipelago

Earth • Sep 19, 2019 • 5 min read
Climate strikes

Striking out

Across the world, teenagers are striking to protest the climate crisis. We look at why the region's own stand against the fossil fuel industry is so important
By Andrew Haffner

Earth • Sep 09, 2019 • 9 min read
Urban planning

A capital idea

With Jakarta steadily sinking, President Joko Widodo has announced that a new capital will be built on the island of Borneo. So how will the new city be different?
By Kate Walton

Earth • Sep 04, 2019 • 12 min read
Animal welfare

Out of the woods

For over a century, elephants were Southeast Asia’s workhorses, used to pull logs razed from their forest homes. But what happens to those elephants when the logging stops?
By Claire Baker-Munton

Earth • Aug 30, 2019 • 15 min read
Drought in Cambodia

When the river runs dry

Every year, Cambodia's Tonle Sap river changes course to fill up the nation's largest lake, bringing life back to the Kingdom. This year, it's running late
By Evie Breese, with additional reporting by Veng Sonita

Earth • Aug 28, 2019 • 10 min read
Climate crisis

Sinking cities

From our print archive: Climate change is expected to hit Southeast Asia's megacities the hardest – and places such as Jakarta, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City might be the first to get flooded out
By Laura J. Snook

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Earth • Aug 22, 2019 • 13 min read
Waste pickers

A brief history of Cambodia’s plastic crisis

Cambodia’s plastic waste is kept in balance thanks to an army of waste pickers, who represent the only functioning infrastructure. We look back at how plastic conquered the Kingdom
By Kathrin Eitel

Earth • Aug 09, 2019 • 6 min read
Opinion

Guardians of the forest

The head of Indonesia’s main Indigenous Peoples organisation calls on the country’s government to live up to its promises on land rights
By Rukka Sombolinggi

Earth • Jul 31, 2019 • 13 min read
Plastic waste

Road to redemption

Dow Chemical is infamous for the devastating Agent Orange unleashed on civilians during the Vietnam War. Now, the company is putting plastic scrap to work paving new roads for the nation
By Claire Baker-Munton