Environment

Chinese dams threaten one of the world’s most biodiverse rivers, critics say. It’s not just environmentalists who are worried.

As the UN biodiversity meeting opens in Nagoya, marauding bears and toads highlight ecological dangers.

The country plans to build a skyscraper and titanium mine and forgets…the people.

The Diplomat speaks with Jonathan Watts about his book 'When a Billion Chinese Jump'. Can the world survive Chinese growth?

The Diplomat speaks with Jonathan Watts about his book ‘When a Billion Chinese Jump’. Can the world survive Chinese growth?

Not yet a regional heavy hitter, but its tourism seems to be getting big and…green.

A remote and tropical destination where elephants ‘fly’…for now.

Fake cotton? Not exactly, but India’s organic cotton industry has been raising eyebrows over accusations that its crops are being grown from genetically modified (GMO) seeds. The scandal was revealed this week in a story by Ecouterre, (‘H&M, Othe

What is Missing? According to artist Maya Lin’s latest monument bearing this title, a lot of things-like all of the living species on earth that have or will become extinct within our lifetimes due to our rapid destruction of their natural habitats.&

Eat less meat, save the world. In a (very simplified) nutshell, this is what Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, suggested at the Copenhagen summit last year. Rajendra has publicly shared this idea before-

One of my favourite recent feature stories on our site has been ‘Climate Change’s First Refugees,’ by Ben Bohane. It’s timely, and I’m impressed by the way Ben was able to bring together these unique and urgent voices of locals on the remote Carteret

Talk this week that the Copenhagen climate meetings next month might not be as hopeless as they seemed reminded me of a documentary I came across recently about rainforest clearing in Indonesia.  The movie has gotten some international acclaim;