NAMIE, Japan: Jinichi Abe grins as he watches diggers working earth near his rice fields, knowing they are returning still more fields to productivity after Fukushima nuclear reactors exploded and sprayed the area with radiation over a decade ago. Even better, Abe knows the rice that he and a cooperativeContinue Reading
The trio are experimenting with using local red seaweed to make bioplastic that can degrade in four to six weeks, instead of hundreds of years like conventional plastic.Continue Reading
“There is always fear that it will happen again,” said Jimenez, who lives with her husband, youngest daughter, sister, nephew and mother. “Your heart sinks because you realise the things you worked so hard to buy will be destroyed again.” Jimenez blames environmental “abuses” upstream in the nearby Upper MarikinaContinue Reading
SAMARINDA, Indonesia: In Indonesia’s region of East Kalimantan, the country’s dependence on coal is on full display. Driving on the region’s toll road, passers-by can watch excavators digging coal from shallow pits as trucks filled with the carbon-rich rocks rush by. Under a bridge in Samarinda, the region’s capital, hundredsContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: Smog in New Delhi hit “hazardous” levels on Thursday (Nov 3) as smoke from thousands of crop fires in northern India combined with other pollutants to create a noxious grey cocktail enveloping the megacity. Levels of the most dangerous particles – PM 2.5, so tiny they can enterContinue Reading
ABANDONING THE SEA At Tasikagung fishing port in Rembang regency, fisherman Abdi said a decade ago he could catch 10 tons of fish in three days at sea. To bring in the same harvest today, he estimates he would need to be out for 15 days. “And only if theContinue Reading
This is the first of a three-part series, in which CNA looks at China president Xi Jinping’s policies as he seeks an unprecedented third term in power at the upcoming 20th Communist Party Congress.Continue Reading
For many students, the floods have disrupted their education. At a makeshift school set up under tarp sheets near Malook Khaskheli, schoolteachers said that about half of the batch of 63 students aged five to 12 are still attending classes, while the rest had moved away. University student Wasseem AliContinue Reading
PIGEON EGG SIZE DIAMOND DISCOVERY Cempaka mine is one of the largest diamond mines in Indonesia. In August 1965, the mine was in the headlines whenever miners reportedly found a 166. 75-carat diamond. Its dimension was almost as big as a pigeon’s ovum. The particular diamond was delivered toContinue Reading
QUESTIONS ON ROHINGYA Climate is just not the only issue on which Bangladesh sees inaction from the West. Around 750, 000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh in 2017 after a scorched-earth marketing campaign against the minority team by troops in neighbouring Myanmar, the campaign that the United States has described asContinue Reading