Rainforest comes alive with the launch of Rainforest Wild Asia Singapore, an immersive new wildlife park at Mandai Wildlife ...
By Carolyn Cowan Home to one-third of all mangroves globally, Southeast Asia has outsize potential to lock away greenhouse gases in these carbon-dense ecosystems. But deforestation for a range of ...
While reduced aid harms conservation efforts, the region's stakeholders have a chance to consider more effective ...
SINGAPORE – Conserving the remaining, nearly intact peatlands and mangroves of South-east Asia – the region’s green lungs – can absorb far more carbon dioxide (CO2) than restoring degraded tracts of ...
The harvesting and burning of forest biomass to produce energy continues to surge, according to a new report on near-term ...
The open-access paper, titled “Half of land use carbon emissions in Southeast Asia can be mitigated through peat swamp forest and mangrove conservation and restoration”, is available online at ...
Southeast Asia is home to some of the most dynamic and fast‑growing economies in the world. Yet the region continues to face significant development challenges, including poverty, limited access to ...
For years, rainforests were thought to be barriers to early human survival, but new evidence has shattered this assumption. A ...