Philip Ball plunges into a chronicle of the subcontinent’s human and environmental histories. Philip Ball December 12, 2018 The Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh remarked on a singular cultural gap in his 2016 book The Great Derangement. Environment and climate, he noted, are almost completely ignored in contemporary literary […]
Indonesia is one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases, but manages to fly well below the radar. Dec 6, 2018 By Nithin Coca World leaders are gathered this month in Katowice, Poland, for COP24, the most important global meeting on climate change since the 2015 UN Climate Conference in […]
Boy gets free drinking water in Dala township, Yangon. The Myanmar Times Myat Moe Aung November 18, 2018 Weather predictions indicate that El Nino might be coming to Myanmar during the winter season, meteorologists said. “El Nino is forecast to happen this year, but it will be weak to […]
November, 27, 2018 Viet Nam NewsHÀ NỘI — The Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Southeast Asia (CCAFS SEA) programme continues to work towards the goal of ensuring food security in the face of climate change by working with its partners to integrate solutions and mitigation policies into […]
As the Phnom Penh construction boom begins to permeate secondary cities, demand for locally produced clay bricks has seen full kilns selling out at unprecedented rates. But a transformation to Cambodia’s rural economy – led in part by remittances from construction workers on these sites and microfinance loans […]
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon and Kong Meta Last year’s drought caused a nationwide crisis, with harvests ruined, forest fires raging and many rural families struggling to feed themselves. As experts take stock of the impact, news of another potential El Niño raises a question: Is Cambodia prepared for the next drought? […]
August 2018 by Sonia Fernandez, University of California – Santa Barbara At roughly 415,000 acres, Northern California’s Mendocino Complex Fire is now the state’s largest recorded wildfire, surpassing the record held by Santa Barbara and Ventura counties’ Thomas Fire, which occurred less than a year before. Roughly 10 […]
