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Asian seabass are bred at the Songkhla Coastal Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Research and Development Center in southern Thailand.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability / OUR PLANET

Feb 23, 2025

Japan looks to save seafood and seaweed farming from warming oceans

By Joel Tansey

Projects at home and in Thailand are seeking to address challenges stemming from climate change as well as sustainability concerns.

The Chip Mong Insee cement factory in Kampot province, Cambodia, on Jan. 9. An investigation has shown that the plastic credits sector relies heavily on the polluting cement industry to burn collected waste, despite concerns about health risks and carbon emissions.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Feb 20, 2025

'What would you have us do?': The plastic credits problem

By Sara Hussein

Credits place no obligations on buyers to stop producing or using unrecyclable plastic that ends up in the environment.

Laborers at a shipyard on the outskirts of Dhaka. Worker deaths, injuries and exposure to hazardous substances are common in the ship-breaking industry, as is environmental harm with toxic chemicals seeping into the beach and water, harming marine life.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Feb 19, 2025

Shipyards of Bangladesh brace as heavy emitting ships near end of life

By Md. Tahmid Zami

Worker deaths and environmental harm are common in yards where vessels that have supplied richer nations are dismantled for scraps that can be used in manufacturing.

All Nippon Airways aircraft at Haneda Airport in Tokyo in August 2024. ANA has staked a lot on greener kinds of jet fuel, with 70% of the emissions reductions under its net-zero emissions plan coming from them.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability / OUR PLANET

Feb 16, 2025

Sky not the only limit for JAL and ANA’s climate goals

By Chris Russell

The airlines' similar but different carbon neutrality plans highlight the difficulty of decarbonization, especially as the sector is now growing again.

Cows graze in a deforested pasture in Brazil's Amazon located in the municipality of Itapua do Oeste, Rondonia state, Brazil, in 2020.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Feb 3, 2025

Brazil's carbon trade takes off, but agribusiness escapes scrutiny

By Andre Cabette Fabio

The regulation is still expected to bring legal security and foster carbon projects that protect the Amazon against pressure from the agribusiness sector.

Though vegan restaurants have been on the upswing since 2017, Japanese vegans still lack a wide variety of options.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability / OUR PLANET

Jan 29, 2025

In meat- and fish-loving Japan, veganism is making a comeback

By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey and Joseph Winters

Tourism, climate goals and animal rights concerns are sparking a plant-based renaissance in a country famous for sushi and pork ramen.

Vehicles drive over a road made using recycled plastic waste in Pokhara, Nepal, on Dec. 26.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Jan 27, 2025

Rubbish roads: Nepal explores paving with plastic

By Paavan MATHEMA

Studies show that roads paved with plastic waste can be twice as durable as normal roads.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.

The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan

By Johan Brooks

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Cainz enriches lives and communities through DIY

Cainz enriches lives and communities through DIY

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