Category: Asia

Indonesia’s thirsty capital is sinking as sea levels rise

Separated by a road and a viscous finger of black, garbage-choked water, the stilt-house slum of Muara Baru and

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Drought Ridden Farmers Commit Suicide in India

LUCKNOW, India -- Authorities in northern India have banned the sale of a cheap variety of hair dye after

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South China Sea headed for troubled waters: marine experts

HANOI (AFP) - Polluted, crossed by busy shipping lanes, and disputed by many countries, the South China Sea has

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Warmer seas spell disaster for oceans

HANOI (AFP) - The future food security of millions of people is at risk because over-fishing, climate change and

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Yangtze river drought crisis

Report courtesy of www.bbc.co.uk

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Climate events could reduce USA and China to third world status in less than 10 years

In the recent documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", Senator Al Gore pointed out that the Greenland ice sheet is melting

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Seafood alert as red tide hits China

A huge toxic "red tide" has spread out across the waters off southern China, contaminating seafood and posing a

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China Says 10% Of Farming Land Contaminated

Over 10 percent of China's farm land is contaminated, threatening the ability of the world's most populous nation to

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Siberian peat bog unleashes giant methane cloud

The thawing of the world's largest peat bog will release billions of tons of methane, a potent greenhouse gas,

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China blames Global Warming for growing water shortages

China suffers a water shortage of nearly 40 billion cubic metres a year which Water Resources Minister Chen Lei

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