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Latest news and updates about issues impacting the global environment, including climate change, recycling, pollution and sustainable living.
A worker sorts clothing at Artikel2’s sorting centre in Stockholm. Mountains of clothes piling up in Swedish recycling centres has sparked calls for firms to take responsibility for textile waste. Photo: AFP
Fashion

A ban on binning textiles means Sweden’s recycling centres are overflowing

Mountains of clothes piling up in Swedish recycling centres are sparking calls for fashion firms to take responsibility for textile waste.

Hong Kong environmental issues

Editorial | Raise awareness of air pollution hazards in Hong Kong

Hong Kong weather

Hong Kong hits 33 degrees Celsius, haze set to last until later this week

Hong Kong environmental issues

Air pollution hits highest health risk level in at least 10 Hong Kong areas

Central, Mong Kok and Tai Po among areas reaching ‘serious’ levels as dusty northerly airstream brings pollutants to city for second day.

Smog over Victoria Harbour. More than 10 areas in Hong Kong reached the highest health risk levels on Monday evening. Photo: Sam Tsang
United States

With ever more urban wildfires, more ask – how dangerous is the smoke?

Monitoring systems are not all encompassing and do not always pick up all of the hundreds of harmful chemicals released, including lead.

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Hong Kong weather

Hazy skies expected to remain in Hong Kong for several days

Observatory says city experienced its driest April morning since 1984.

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India

Samsung, Hitachi fight Modi over costly e-waste recycling policy

New rules require certain manufacturers to pay significantly more to recycle air conditioners, refrigerators, TVs and other appliances.

A man recycles electronic waste, or e-waste, from computer power supplies at a scrap yard in Ahmedabad, India, on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters
Africa

African conservationists aim to change mindsets about unpopular vultures

Vultures are nature’s ‘best sanitation services’, and are estimated to worth US$1.8 billion a year to certain ecosystems in southern Africa.

Germany

‘Ant-agonistic’: aggressive ants threaten Germany’s infrastructure

The ants – in colonies with hundreds of thousands to millions of individuals – have also been noticed elsewhere in Europe, including France.

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Hong Kong courts

Hong Kong court dismisses legal challenge over San Tin Technopole project

High Court allows social worker Eddie Tse to drop the case but rejects his request for another activist to take over proceedings.

The San Tin Technopole forms a key component of the Northern Metropolis, a megaproject located at the city’s border with the mainland. Photo: Eugene Lee
Hong Kong economy

Editorial | Sustainable approach to ecotourism in Hong Kong can be of great benefit to all

In the largest land disposal of its kind in recent years, three Hong Kong sites with tourism potential have been set aside for commercial investment.

This former quarry site on Lamma Island is set to be turned into a high-end coastal and hillside resort development. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong hygiene officials issued 31,945 fines for littering in 2024

Increase of fixed fines to HK$3,000 in 2023 means authorities will generate HK$95.8 million from the penalty notices.

Sustainability

Opinion | Green design is a daunting challenge that’s well worth the effort

If recycling is not cheaper and faster, is it worth it? Building owners need to understand nature is valuable despite not having a price tag.

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Indonesia

Rats and rubbish mar Indonesia’s vision of a futuristic new capital

Indonesia’s US$32 billion dream of a green new capital at Nusantara is facing an early challenge: a surge in rats fuelled by tourist trash.

Videos of rodents darting through crowds in Nusantara have been making the rounds on Indonesian social media in recent days. Photo: Shutterstock
The Philippines

Volcano erupts in central Philippines, spewing ash 4km high

Social media footage captured the dramatic ascent of the massive ash plume as Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island roared back to life.

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Kanlaon Volcano on the island of Negros, central Philippines, erupted early on Tuesday morning, sending a plume of debris 4km into the sky. Photo: X/philvolcs_dost
Malaysia

Second pygmy elephant corpse find in Malaysia raises fears of ivory poaching

The practice of giving tusks as dowry in neighbouring Indonesia may be behind the killings, conservationists say.

Asia travel

In Philippines, illegal fishermen turn ecotourism operators

Siargao islanders who used to catch fish illegally and cut down mangroves now replant the trees and run ecotours to the community’s benefit.

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Snow leopard’s death in suspected hit-and-run sparks Chinese police probe

The animal was found dead on a mountainous stretch of highway in Qinghai province with bloody tyre marks at the scene.

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The are an estimated 5,000 snow leopards left in China. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Hong Kong environmental issues

Hong Kong tree enthusiast on high alert for hill fires on Ching Ming Festival

Paul Melsom, a horticulturist who teaches secondary school students, has planted thousands of trees in a Lantau country park over the decades.

Hong Kong

Then & Now | A perennial Hong Kong pleasure? A springtime picnic in the great outdoors

It’s picnic time and, luckily for us, one thing Hong Kong has done right is provide barbecue facilities at scenic spots for that perfect day out.

Climate change

Opinion | An Asia racked by natural disasters needs insurers to step up

Instead of withdrawing from high-risk areas, Asia’s insurers must become an active partner in long-term climate risk management.

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A Muslim woman cries while offering morning prayers on a road near destroyed mosques in Mandalay on March 31, three days after the deadly Myanmar earthquake. Photo: AFP
Architecture and design

A piece of Hong Kong in your living room

Heritage and urban living inform a collection of locally designed and crafted furniture on show in Milan, Italy, as part of Hong Kong Interior Design Week.

The Benboo lighting trio, comprising a table lamp, floor lamp and wall lamp that pay tribute to bamboo in copper, designed by Studio RYTE. Photo: Hong Kong Interior Design Week
Japan

Japan’s municipalities unready to deal with major earthquake: survey

The survey comes after Japan’s government estimated that up to 298,000 people could die from a megaquake along the Nankai Trough.

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Australia

Australian outback swamped by year’s worth of rain in a week, devastates livestock

Around 100,000 cattle and sheep are dead or missing due to flooding from 500 millimetres of rain in an area the size of Texas.

Hong Kong

Then & Now | Bright side of life reflected in charming resilience of the kapok tree

Bad times come and go, but the kapok blossoms and koel bird songs – a striking staple of Hong Kong in spring – remain.

Kapok trees in bloom at Cheung Wah Estate in Fanling. Photo: Eugene Lee
Britain

Operator of US jet fuel tanker brings UK lawsuit over cargo ship collision

The Solong crashed into the Stena Immaculate in the North Sea on March 10. A member of Solong’s crew is still missing, presumed dead.

Salvage workers examine the container ship Solong, damaged after colliding with the anchored Stena Immaculate oil tanker, after it was towed into the port of Aberdeen in Scotland, UK on Friday. Photo: Reuters
India

India’s hotter-than-usual weather may strain power networks, put crops at risk

India is facing an unusually hot April, risking wheat crop damage and straining power grids, with record electricity demand and potential diesel shortages.

Japan

Japan warns up to 298,000 could die in potential Nankai Trough ‘megaquake’

The figure is revised from previous projections of 323,000 deaths, but economic damage is estimated to increase to US$2 trillion.

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