Conflicts over land and water flared across the world this year amid greater competition for resources and increasing hostility towards farmers and indigenous people, according to two reports published Tuesday.
Category: Region
Selected environmental stories from media outlets in the Mekong region and beyond.
Myanmar very vulnerable to climate change effects: Historian
“What we know is that as the earth warms another 2, 3 degrees over the rest of this century, the impact on Burma could be catastrophic in terms of rising sea levels, extreme heat, extreme weather events.”
Illegal hunting a greater threat to wildlife than forest degradation
In one protected area complex, the Hue and Quang Nam Saola Nature Reserves, in central Vietnam, forest rangers collected more than 110,000 wire snares over the course of a few years.
‘Watered Down”: report on policy versus practice in flagship dam projects
Includes a case study of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower Project in Laos, the first time a Chinese company obtained rights to develop a cascade along an entire river basin outside of China.
We’re in denial mode as the Mekong Delta goes under
The Mekong Delta is disappearing right in front of our eyes, but we think we can save it with empty promises.
With few green spaces, Bangkok plants Asia’s biggest rooftop farm
Bangkok’s Thammasat University, one of the oldest in Thailand, has a new claim to fame: Asia’s largest urban rooftop farm.