Earth

How environmental change is shaping Southeast Asia.

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 14, 2019 • 9 min read

Mass extinction How to save the world

By Philip Bethge • Jun 14, 2019
A new ethos and a new self-identity for mankind are needed to overcome mass extinction

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 12, 2019 • 9 min read

Natural disasters Apocalypse, soon

By Claire Baker-Munton • Jun 12, 2019
Soaring temperatures spurred by global warming and El Niño raise the risk of increasingly devastating storms, fires and floods. Is Southeast Asia ready?

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 05, 2019 • 9 min read

Climate change Dead in the water

By Claire Baker-Munton • Jun 05, 2019
Hydropower is booming in the Mekong River basin as countries seek clean energy – but these massive dams might prove even more polluting than fossil fuels

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • May 24, 2019 • 6 min read

Clean energy A guide to renewable power in Cambodia

By Thomas Brent • May 24, 2019
Cambodia has huge renewable energy potential in the form of hydropower, solar and wind. Hydropower is already an important part of the energy mix and attention is shifting towards other renewable energies, but many challenges lie ahead

Earth • Mar 27, 2019 • 10 min read
Indonesia

A company intimidates, evicts and plants oil palm without permits

MAROANGIN, Indonesia — One day in March last year, Rahim was shocked and furious to find an excavator rolling through his rice field, turning the bright green grains into piles of mud. The 51-year-old farmer took photos of the incursion and demanded to know why his family’s livelihood was being uprooted
By Ian Morse / Mongabay • Mar 27, 2019

Earth • Feb 15, 2019 • 6 min read
Mekong Wildlife

Fishing for DNA

Scientists are rapidly developing new DNA-methods to identify what kind of life is present in rivers, lakes and the ocean. Advocates of the method claim that it has the potential to revolutionise the way environmental monitoring is done
By Uffe Wilken       • Feb 15, 2019

Earth • Feb 08, 2019 • 4 min read
Environment

Behind the growing demand for ‘unbreakable’ bamboo bikes

Known for its strength and durability, bamboo has been used to make items across Asia for centuries, from chopping boards in Japan to firecrackers in Malaysia to the scaffolding of today, so why not bicycles? Southeast Asia Globe looks into how these rigid weeds become a viable means of transportation
By Claire Baker-Munton • Feb 08, 2019

Earth • Jan 24, 2019 • 8 min read
Illegal ivory trade

A mammoth task

Cambodia is playing a growing role in the international illegal ivory trade
By Claire Baker-Munton • Jan 24, 2019

Earth • Dec 18, 2018 • 15 min read
Belt and Road

Operation Mekong

China is exercising a level of economic influence on the Mekong states not seen since the height of its imperial might
By Bernhard Zand • Dec 18, 2018

Earth • Nov 30, 2018 • 5 min read
Sustainable tourism

Turning shark hunters around

A Singaporean schoolteacher-turned-social entrepreneur is fighting to save sharks from extinction in a unique way: by working with the shark hunters
By Lily Hess • Nov 30, 2018

Earth • Nov 23, 2018 • 4 min read
Plastic kingdom

Exhibition questions Cambodia’s rampant waste problem

An new art exhibition in Phnom Penh featuring works by Cambodian and foreign artists will raise questions about plastic use and recycling, through woodcarvings, illustrations and even a motorbike.
By Lily Hess • Nov 23, 2018

Earth • Nov 12, 2018 • 17 min read
Cambodia's building blocks

Blood bricks

Cambodia's construction boom has demand for clay bricks climbing. But a transformation to Cambodia’s rural economy feeds some of the most vulnerable into the growing brick sector and its toxic debt bondage
By Janelle Retka and Leng Len • Nov 12, 2018