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How environmental change is shaping Southeast Asia.

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 21, 2019 • 11 min read

Hydropower dam protests Don’t poke the nest

By Skylar Lindsay • Nov 21, 2019
Activists from the Sa-iab Village in northern Thailand have successfully campaigned against the construction of a dam for three decades. With hydropower dams springing up across Asia, what can local communities learn from their struggle?

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 14, 2019 • 8 min read

Indonesia’s indigenous peoples Last of their kind

By Andre Barahamin • Nov 14, 2019
A forest community on Halmahera Island, North Maluku, is facing displacement by land-hungry businesses, threatening doomsday for a timeless hunter-gatherer lifestyle

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 31, 2019 • 7 min read

Renewable energy Looking on the bright side

By Paul Millar • Oct 31, 2019
When it comes to quick, clean and scalable solutions to Cambodia’s energy dreams, a recent surge in investment in solar power is promising a pathway to prosperity

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 24, 2019 • 7 min read

Boeung Kak Lake Flood, sweat and tears

By Sam Campbell • Oct 24, 2019
From our print archive: The flooding that inundated much of northern Phnom Penh has receded, but Lakeside residents now face a much greater threat

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE
Earth • Oct 08, 2019 • 12 min read
Powering Southeast Asia

Fanning the flames

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
By Simon Roughneen

Earth • Oct 04, 2019 • 5 min read
Cambodia Wildlife

Where the small things are

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
By Jeremy Holden

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE
Earth • Sep 27, 2019 • 13 min read
Indonesia Disasters

Washed away

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

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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