Australian rare earths miner Lynas has launched legal action against the most vitriolic opponents of its proposed plant in Malaysia following fierce criticism that it is unsafe, according to AFP.
Regional pressure is building on Laos as its neighbors continue to push for the termination of the controversial Xayaburi hydro dam project in the country’s north.
About 100,000 people living in the southern China’s Three Gorges Dam area could be relocated over the next three to five years with massive landslides and bank collapses expected to hit the area, a government official said yesterday.
The Bombay high court has directed the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to initiate action against industries causing high pollution and submit an action taken report on May 3.
A Malaysian court has dismissed a bid to stop a rare earths plant run by Australian miner Lynas from going online over fears it will harm the environment by producing radioactive pollution, according to a report by AFP.
China's environment is sick, suffering not just a single, isolated disease but widespread epidemics. This is indisputable. And no matter how thoroughly we analyse individual causes, it is clear that without fixing its ill-fated development model, China will be forever chasing its pollution problem and will never get ahead of it.
The country is once again in urgent need of an emancipated mind-set, redefining the concept of development to address today's conditions and to bring order out of chaos.
Vietnam’s first run-of-the- river (RoR) hydro power plant, the Chiem Hoa hydropower station, is set to become operational within weeks after nearly three years of construction and a cost of VND1.7 trillion (US81.7 million).
China’s Three Gorges Corp yesterday began construction of a dam that will flood the last free-flowing portion of the middle reaches of the Yangtze, the country's longest river, according to the Shanghai Daily.
A new online tool unveiled by the WWF and German development finance institution Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (DEG) allows companies to identify water risk within their supply chains and provides steps to mitigate that risk, which is becoming a major concern for companies operating in China and the rest of the Asian region.
Constituent Assembly (CA) members from the Far-west region of Nepal have demanded that the trans-boundary Mahakali river water and power generated from it should be equally shared between Nepal and India, according to a recent report in The Himalayan Times.
In an effort to rescue its declining wild fishing resources, China is planning to impose a broad fishing bans on the Pearl River and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River starting next month.
A senior Chinese official has claimed that water shortages, pollution and environmental deterioration have restrained sustainable development in the country, despite large and ongoing water conservation efforts, according to Xinhua.
Shanghai plans to adopt its "strictest water policies yet" to ensure that the city’s resources are managed responsibly, Shanghai Water Authority said Thursday, after launching an official microblog to mark 20th World Water Day.
Environmental scientists have issued strong warnings against the development of 12 hydropower projects along the Mekong River claiming that they will cause non-recoverable damage to the river’s ecosystem as well as threaten food security of residents in the riparian countries.
Authorities in south China's Guangdong Province were working yesterday to clean an oil spill on the Xijiang River which threatens drinking water to the southern city of Jiangmen, home to four million people.
China's Minister of Water Resources Chen Lei has announced plans for the government to channel USD636 billion of investment from both public and private sources in various water-related projects through to 2020.
Speaking at the Ministerial Conference of the World Water Forum in Paris this week Chen said a package of favorable policies will be offered to encourage the private sector to tap into the country's multi-billion-dollar water conservancy infrastructure construction sector, with some of the projects open to foreign investors.
The rapid growth of cities across the developing world has resulted in urban areas overtaking rural communities as being the most vulnerable to wide scale flooding, according to a report from the World Bank.
Environmental activists gathered in front of the UN seat at Geneva’s Place des Nations yesterday to protest against plans to construct 12 hydroelectric dams in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo Island.
This report by the World Bank spells out what the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting by the end of the century, without serious policy changes.
Companies in Asia reveal expectations that regulations that could lead to rising costs for reporting and reducing GHG emissions will also be the main sources of climate-related business opportunities.
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