How effective are recycling programmes in East Asia? We crunched the numbers to compare Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mainland China’s...

Policy makers and scientists from China, the US and other countries recently gathered to discuss China’s plans to create a unified...

Plastic Free Seas, a Hong Kong-based environmental charity, is calling for an investigation into the source of the black granule...

Vietnam has banned the import and trade of wildlife, dead or alive, as well as wildlife products, and announced a crackdown on illegal...

ReThink Hong Kong is an ambitious two-day business conference taking place in Hong Kong this September that will explore and encourage...

The Consumer Council, the consumer watchdog of Hong Kong, reported various levels of metallic contaminants in samples of canned fish that...

Weeks of torrential downpours in China have caused the worst flooding of the Yangtze River in the eastern province of Jiangxi since 1998,...

Retailers in Japan have started charging for plastic bags, in a move aimed at cutting down on plastic packaging and waste. Shops can...

Supermarket shelves around the world were emptied as people panic bought due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In Singapore, this brought...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, popularly known as CITES, is a rare animal: an international environmental...

People usually associate deforestation and illegal logging with tropical rainforests in developing countries such as those in the Amazon...

In early June, it was widely reported that the Chinese government had banned pangolin scales in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and...

An investigation by Hong Kong news media outlet HK01 has found that nearly two-thirds of housing estates surveyed, both public and...

The government of South Korea is subsidising the development of biomass power so heavily that it’s hindering the adoption of renewable...

The 1950’s were known as the Great Acceleration which was marked by profound human transformation of the planet. Forests have declined...

Desert locust swarms have been multiplying across East Africa and the Middle East since January as a result of unusual climate processes....

It’s the world’s biggest importer of logs, legal and illegal alike. A behemoth that drives an engine of timber harvesting across the...

A study shows that within 50 years, a billion people will either be displaced or forced to live in insufferable heat for every 1°C rise...

Fukushima, a prefecture in northeastern Japan synonymous with a devastating nuclear meltdown, is seeking to transform itself into a...

Rising sea levels and increased frequency of flooding are now common occurrences under the climate crisis. In the United States,...