Trail of dust

Asian rubbish

Global warming can even cause plague

Deep inside Chittagong's shipbreaking yards

AMR Awareness Week: FAO’s biosecurity protocol can help create healthy farms with less antibiotic use

The three-zone biosecurity initiative by FAO was originally launched in 2013 to contain avian flu outbreaks

Wild relatives of crops at risk in conflict-ridden West Asia

Violence and strife have affected their conservation, threatening global food security.

Brick kilns major source of air pollution in South Asia

Contribute 10% to the total air pollution in south Delhi, 11% in Patna, 30% in Dhaka

Growing tendency

Compared to Europeans, South Asians need longer workouts

A toilet per second

Asian scientists on new plan to study monsoon patterns

COP28 recap: 5 insider highlights from negotiation rooms of Global Stocktake text

The two-week long battle of negotiations saw many competing priorities from countries influencing the text

Mixed reactions: COP28 focuses on fossil fuel role in climate change but disregards equity, says CSE

Inclusion of fossil fuels in Global Stocktake important starting point, rest a mixed bag

Afghanistan under Taliban: A decade’s progress eroded in a year, says UN

Cascading crises, almost 700,000 jobs vanished, finds report

Illegal wildlife trade growing in two border cities of southeast Asia

Lack of government intervention to be blamed for alarming trade of animal body parts

Vanishing grasslands

Exporting e-xposure

The US ships out highly toxic electronic waste to Asian countries

Flood update

20 Asian cities rated for air pollution

Asia-Pacific agreement on net fishing

Drop in air pollution in India during 2020 nationwide lockdown slowed snow melting in Himalayas, finds study

Snow & ice melt reduced by more than 27 million tonnes compared to 2019

Forests for people

Newly democratic Bhutan pushes community forestry to tackle rural poverty  

New UN report gives recommendations to improve human development in Asia-Pacific

Proposes green growth approach, among others

Mosquitos to roam as tigers

Asia's sooty air

'Climate change to impact suitability of tropical agricultural lands by 2100'

Suitability will shift to higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere