Every year between January and April, South-east Asia is plagued by smog from farmers lighting fires to clear land, emitting microscopic PM2.5 pollution that lines the lungs and enters the ...

The ADB claims its safeguards mitigate environmental harms, but there is a significant gap between policy and practice.

Researchers found that up to 17% of cropland contains dangerous levels of heavy metals like arsenic and lead. The most ...

In Brazil’s Yanomami Indigenous Territory and across other parts of the Amazon Basin, illegal gold mining ...

There are fears that some of Asia's most beautiful places could become “the next Boracay”, the Philippines island that was ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) issued a May 4 announcement of plans to expand its support to long-term food and nutrition ...

A community-based initiative is helping ger district families transition from polluting coal stoves to solar-powered heating.

Up to 1.4 billion people worldwide are affected by toxic heavy metal pollution and 17 per cent of arable land is contaminated, according to the study led by Hou Deyi, a professor at the School of ...

Experts have lambasted Indonesia’s heavy push toward natural gas, saying it risks locking the country into fossil fuel ...