Earth

How environmental change is shaping Southeast Asia.

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 04, 2019 • 12 min read

Animal welfare Out of the woods

By Claire Baker-Munton • Sep 04, 2019
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?

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 30, 2019 • 15 min read

Drought in Cambodia When the river runs dry

By Evie Breese, with additional reporting by Veng Sonita • Aug 30, 2019
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

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 29, 2019 • 17 min read

Indigenous rights Uprooted

By Tabitha Payne • Aug 29, 2019
Landgrabs, deforestation and an increasingly-globalised Khmer culture are encroaching deep into the lands and lore of Cambodia's indigenous Bunong people

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 28, 2019 • 10 min read

Climate crisis Sinking cities

By Laura J. Snook • Aug 28, 2019
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

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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 • Aug 22, 2019

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 • Aug 09, 2019

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 • Jul 31, 2019

Earth • Jul 30, 2019 • 15 min read
Waste to energy

Money to burn

Limiting global heating means leaving fossil fuels in the ground. But the growing practice of breaking down and burning up the world's plastic waste for its energy potential is challenging this idea
By Claire Baker-Munton • Jul 30, 2019

Earth • Jul 24, 2019 • 9 min read
Plastic waste imports

Waste not, want not

The discovery of 1,600 tonnes of illegal plastic waste in a Cambodian port is just the latest example of wealthy nations heaping their trash on countries ill-equipped to handle it
By Paul Millar • Jul 24, 2019

Earth • Jul 18, 2019 • 10 min read
Poverty

Living on the edge

Scraping through the refuse of Yangon’s slums for scraps to sell, children and adults alike find themselves caught between economic crisis in the countryside and a rapidly developing city that threatens to swallow their makeshift homes
By Lorcan Lovett • Jul 18, 2019

Earth • Jul 11, 2019 • 6 min read
Overpopulation

The shrinking world

The world's population explosion has so far been considered one of humanity's greatest threats. But humankind might be shrinking faster than expected
By Hilmar Schmundt • Jul 11, 2019

Earth • Jul 03, 2019 • 14 min read
Endangered wildlife trade

Hunting the hunters

From our print archive: A few unsung heroes try to stem a trade that begins in the forests of Asia and then spans the restaurants and pet shops of the world
By Ben Davies • Jul 03, 2019

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