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Philippines bets on natural gas to accelerate renewable energy

Climate campaigners label law paving way for natural gas promotion an “insult” as fishers warn of environmental devastation

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Energy transition

After Trump cut funding for energy transitions overseas, could China step in?

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Trade

Opinion: China’s green “overcapacity” is the climate solution the world asked for

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Fisheries

The push for 30x30 ocean protection goal needs to be locally led

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Climate diplomacy

The shape of a new climate politics emerges

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Climate adaptation

The Mekong Delta’s climate defences are failing

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Climate adaptation

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, elusive ‘ghost rice’ holds key to climate resilience

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River basins

How Myanmar’s gold rush threatens international rivers

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Energy transition

Q&A: How Southeast Asia can seize the renewable energy opportunity

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Conservation

Malaysia’s booming songbird competition scene could silence its forests

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Solar

Thailand’s solar sector faces hurdles in net zero push

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Conservation

Bird hunting in Cambodia driven by poverty and lax enforcement

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Trade

What next for Southeast Asia’s China-backed solar boom?

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The struggle against plastic choking the Mekong

Plastic is now ubiquitous in the Mekong, Asia’s Mother of Rivers, and experts and local people are struggling to contain the risks to human health, biodiversity and livelihoods

Anton L. Delgado

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Energy transition

How China and Indonesia’s coal provinces can learn from each other

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Endangered species

Seagrass loss leaves Thailand’s dugongs struggling to survive

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Energy transition

Thailand’s ethanol revolution: Can biofuels deliver on climate goals?

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Fisheries

Thailand ‘bringing back the bad old days’ for fisheries, say activists

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Ecosystems

Indonesia’s risky gamble with sea sand exports

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Energy consumption

Cambodia’s LNG plans face energy security and cost issues

Overseas investment

Could China provide the renewable energy investment Indonesia needs?

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Ecosystems

Paying back the sea: A Balinese fisher’s tale

Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and President of Indonesia, H.E. Mr. Prabowo Subianto handshake

Coal

Is Indonesia’s pledge to end coal use by 2040 realistic?

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Climate impacts

Tropical island nations face a land crisis

Culture

Dialogue Earth’s best photo stories of 2024

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Environmental defenders

Southeast Asia’s environmental defenders on the frontline

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