Earth

How environmental change is shaping Southeast Asia.

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 24, 2014 • 7 min read

Dams Gone: Fishing

By Alison Smith • Jan 24, 2014
How will a population so dependent on rivers and lakes stay afloat when faced with a series of mega-dam projects?

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 15, 2014 • 7 min read

Illegal Logging The wood for the trees

By Colin Meyn and Mech Dara • Jan 15, 2014
Despite community efforts to combat illegal logging, Cambodia’s forests continue to be pillaged at an alarming rate, while the government’s promises are frequently exposed as empty

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 23, 2013 • 9 min read

Environment Trapped by change

By Written by DENISE HRUBY, Photos by THOMAS CRISTOFOLETTI • Dec 23, 2013
The impending Don Sahong dam has the potential to cause environmental catastrophe and destroy the livelihoods of the area’s daredevil fishermen

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 19, 2013 • 3 min read

Skin and bone

By Frédéric Janssens • Nov 19, 2013
Once a key supplier for the wildlife trafficking trade, Southeast Asia is becoming a major destination for this bloody business as well

Earth • Nov 13, 2013 • 4 min read
Wildlife

Caught on camera: 'Asia's unicorn'

The critically endangered saola - known as the Asian unicorn - captured on camera for the first time in 15 years
By Southeast Asia Globe • Nov 13, 2013

Earth • Aug 28, 2013 • 7 min read
Development

The view from the bottom

In a city of extremes, what does the boom look like from the perspective of the urban poor?
By Marcus Tudehope • Aug 28, 2013

Earth • Oct 31, 2012 • 3 min read
Working Elephants

With a heavy heart

In a sad twist of fate, elephants are forced to fuel an insatiable logging industry that contributes to the slow demise of their species
By Brent Lewin • Oct 31, 2012

Earth • Oct 04, 2012 • 10 min read
Cambodia Wildlife

Hunters and hunted

Patrolling Cambodia’s southern Cardamom Mountains with Wildlife Alliance and the rangers of Stung Proat 
By Daniel Otis • Oct 04, 2012

Earth • May 16, 2012 • 2 min read
Wildlife Trade

The killers

For more than 10 years, photographer Patrick Brown and author Ben Davies have followed the global wildlife trade and its gruesome pursuit of profits
By Navet Tab • May 16, 2012

Earth • Dec 15, 2011 • 6 min read

Weathering the weather

How climate change became the currency that transformed a vulnerable community
By Bian Cara • Dec 15, 2011

Earth • Feb 09, 2011 • 9 min read
Ring of fire

Superstition to science

From reverence to fear to curiosity, these monsters of nature have proven to be a constant source of fascination. Southeast Asia Globe investigates how mankind’s relationship with volcanoes has evolved over the centuries
By Laura J Snook • Feb 09, 2011

Earth • Jan 27, 2010 • 7 min read
Water

When the well runs dry

With clean water increasingly hard to come by, the fight for fresh water threatens to plunge Southeast Asia into chaos
By Sumona Raha • Jan 27, 2010