December 25, 2024

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Sustainability

An employee of Trex stands with bales of used plastic, which the company recycles into decking material.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Nov 25, 2024

Can the world unite to end the plastic pollution crisis?

By Aaron Clark and Leslie Kaufman

The rising toll of plastic in the environment is impossible to ignore.

Sacks of untreated and shredded plastic waste, left unattended, collect at an inoperative recycling site in Asan, South Korea, on Nov. 19.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Nov 25, 2024

South Korea's mountain of plastic waste shows limits of recycling

By Joyce Lee

Seoul says that it recycles 73% of its plastic waste, but environmentalists say the real number is about 27%.

Rice fields in the town of Ozu, Kumamoto Prefecture. The water-filled paddies glistening under the sun is a symbol of a long-running effort to preserve the prefecture’s groundwater.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability / OUR PLANET

Nov 17, 2024

Japan's chipmaking rush pressures Kumamoto's special water supply

By Tomoko Otake

TSMC and others hope that support for existing projects and proper wastewater management can avoid undermining water development efforts lauded by the U.N.

Groove Armada’s Andy Cato at his farm in Oxfordshire, U.K.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Oct 28, 2024

How a DJ became an unlikely champion for green farming

By Charlotte Hughes-Morgan

Over the past six years, Andy Cato has built a network of more than 100 farmers in the U.K. and France to grow wheat using regenerative farming methods.

Coral growing off Indonesia's Komodo island, located in the marine rich Coral Triangle

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Oct 27, 2024

Report details fossil fuel threat to 'Amazon of the seas'

The Coral Triangle covers waters claimed by Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, the Philippines, Timor-Leste and the Solomon Islands.

The Champayan Lagoon in Altamira, Tamaulipas, Mexico. A new report finds that nearly 3 billion people and more than half of the world’s food production are in areas experiencing a worsening water shortage.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Oct 17, 2024

Water crisis endangers 8% of GDP in high-income countries, report warns

By Coco Liu

The report finds that nearly 3 billion people and more than half of the world’s food production are in areas experiencing a worsening water shortage.

An aircraft operated by Singapore Airlines takes off at Sydney Airport on Aug. 27. A trial that started last month in Asia makes it a reality to shave precious minutes off hourslong trips, depending upon what route a pilot chooses to take.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Sep 23, 2024

How shortcuts across the skies can make flights greener: Q&A

By Danny Lee

In a trial of user-preferred routing, several airlines in Asia can take shortcuts on 38 routes to save time and fuel.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Visitors to Kyoto walk along a street near Kiyomizu Temple in April. A popular tourist spot, Kyoto has seen what locals feel to be an overwhelming amount of tourists in 2024.

Is Japan ready for 60 million tourists?

By Kathryn Wortley

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

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