Earth

How environmental change is shaping Southeast Asia.

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 12, 2018 • 11 min read

Waste and recycling The plastic tide

By Paul Millar • Sep 12, 2018
As Southeast Asia buckles beneath the weight of the world's redirected refuse, experts say sustainable waste management can only come by abandoning our throwaway culture

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 05, 2018 • 15 min read

Renewable energy The price of power

By Amanda Kaufmann • Sep 05, 2018
The deadly dam collapse in Laos in 2018 brings Cambodia’s own grand plans for hydropower into question – and thrusts solar power to the forefront of the Kingdom’s quest for energy independence

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 24, 2018 • 5 min read

Laos dam disaster Living in fear along the Mekong

By Socheata Sim • Aug 24, 2018
The Laos government’s response to the 2018 deadly dam collapse was not enough. Socheata Sim, programme manager for Oxfam's Mekong Regional Water Governance Program, explains why

Earth • Jul 19, 2018 • 9 min read
Bangkok

Losing its soul

Thailand’s military government wants to turn the chaotic metropolis of Bangkok into a kind of Singapore: tidy, sterile and easily controllable – and thus, a symbol of its power
By Katrin Kuntz

Earth • Jun 25, 2018 • 6 min read
Cambodia

Agriculture branches out as rice returns flatten

Although rice has long fed both the people and the economy of Cambodia, experts say that crop diversification and increased investment are needed to take the agriculture industry to the next level
By Euan Black

Earth • Jun 13, 2018 • 8 min read
Urban migration

Brunei’s troubled heart

The once-populous district of Kampong Ayer, a community of stilted homes and wooden walkways, is a shell of what it once was in its heyday as residents drift to the city
By Pete Ford

Earth • May 24, 2018 • 6 min read
Marine aquaculture

Why Southeast Asia is perfectly placed to embrace large-scale fish farming

The market is there, the physical conditions are near perfect and there is a great potential for growth. So why does Southeast Asian marine aquaculture still consist mainly of small family fish farms and not large-scale projects targeting local as well as export markets?
By Uffe Wilken

Earth • May 16, 2018 • 8 min read
Cambodia

The air we breathe

A year ago, Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment began monitoring Phnom Penh’s levels of the most damaging known air pollutant, PM2.5. How will the information gained be used?
By Janelle Retka

Earth • Apr 25, 2018 • 3 min read
Superfoods

Purple grain

Siam Organic is helping to tackle Thai poverty while also jumping on the superfood bandwagon with a new breed of richly coloured rice that it claims is the healthiest in the world
By Cristyn Lloyd

Earth • Apr 23, 2018 • 7 min read
West Papua

Preserving paradise

Indonesia's Raja Ampat archipelago is the most biodiverse marine environment in the world. But as word of its magnificence gets out, and visitors swoop in, locals and expats alike are striving to protect the paradise
By Carolyn Beasley