Japan retailers to begin charging for plastic utensils and straws from April 2022
TOKYO – Plastic utensils and straws will no longer be given out for free in Japan from April next year, joining plastic bags [...]
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China makes desalination push to ease water scarcity
SHANGHAI (REUTERS) – China will invest in new desalination plants over the 2021-2025 period and raise capacity to 2.9 million tonnes a day [...]
It's a shame we need fines to force us to clear table litter, return trays
I once cleared a table at a foodcourt of dirty dishes that a family of strangers had left behind just as they got [...]
Polluted Lebanon lake spews out tonnes of dead fish
QARAOUN, LEBANON (AFP) – Tonnes of dead fish have washed up on the shore of a highly polluted lake in eastern Lebanon in [...]
Betting on bamboo: Indonesian villages struggle to source safe, green power
SALIGUMA, INDONESIA (REUTERS) – Cutting through the glassy water of a mangrove-fringed inlet on the east coast of Indonesia’s Siberut island, Mr Mateus [...]
Young, female and fighting for India's forests
MOLLEM, INDIA (AFP) – Fronted by a 20-year-old in pigtails, the dancing flash mob swings into action, campaigning to save a threatened wildlife [...]
Japan to discharge treated Fukushima water into the Pacific
The cooling water that has been accumulating at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan will be released into the Pacific [...]
Will petrol stations become drive-in cafes?
(REUTERS) – If more vehicles are going to be powered by electricity, what is going to happen to the ubiquitous petrol stations? The [...]
Amazon deforestation rose 17% in 'dire' 2020, data shows
BOGOTA (THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION) – Deforestation in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, rose by 17 per cent last year, with wildfires, beef [...]
Serbia hails Chinese companies as saviors, but locals chafe at costs
METOVNICA, SERBIA (NYTIMES) – The well in the retired couple’s yard, their only source of clean water, began to dry up two years [...]