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A person walks with a dog through the "micro-forest" park created by the Athens City Council near Alepotrypa Park in downtown Athens, Greece, on March 31.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Apr 22, 2025

Tentative tree planting 'decades overdue' in sweltering Athens

By John HADOULIS

Planting vegetation is crucial to help cities beat the heat, scientists say, as climate change stokes hotter and more intense heatwaves.

An artificial glacier built by local residents during the winter to conserve water for the summer at Pari village in the Kharmang district of Pakistan's mountainous Gilgit-Baltistan region are seen on March 18. At the foot of Pakistan's impossibly high mountains whitened by frost all year round, farmers grappling with a lack of water have created their own ice towers. The ice forms in the shape of cones that resemble Buddhist stupas, and act as a storage system — steadily melting throughout spring, when temperatures rise.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Apr 6, 2025

Artificial glaciers boost water supply in northern Pakistan

Warmer winters as a result of climate change has reduced the snowfall and subsequent seasonal snowmelt that feeds the valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks during a news conference in Paris on Saturday.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Mar 30, 2025

Trump can't stop 'sustainability revolution': Al Gore

Gore also condemned the administration's treatment of universities and student activists, but said the tide is turning.

The buildings sector consumes 32% of the world's energy and contributes 34% of CO2 emissions.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Mar 18, 2025

'More and faster': U.N. calls to shrink buildings' carbon footprint

CO2 emissions from the building sector rose around 5% in the last decade when they should have fallen 28%, according to a new report.

Entomal Biotech Sdn Bhd CCO Yanni Ching with samples of BSF dried larvae and frass.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Feb 28, 2025

Turning waste into wealth with insect-based biotech

By Angelyn Labadan

Entomal has treated over 22.5 tons of food waste to date, preventing roughly 55 tons of carbon emissions.

The government will oblige some companies, particularly those in high-emitting industries including steelmaking, to participate in an emissions trading system to be introduced in fiscal 2026.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Feb 26, 2025

Japan adopts bill obliging firms' participation in emissions trading

Companies that emit at least 100,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year will be required to participate in the country's carbon emissions trading system.

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.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.

How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic

By Alex K.T. Martin

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Looking ahead to Yokohama’s Green × Expo 2027

Looking ahead to Yokohama’s Green × Expo 2027

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