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A worker sorts plastic waste for recycling at Minato Resource Recycle Center in Tokyo in 2019. Japan has been criticized by environmental groups for its strategy on plastics, which is heavily reliant on recycling instead of reduction.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability / OUR PLANET

May 25, 2025

Are microplastics hurting our fertility?

By Tomoko Otake

While a lot remains unknown about how microplastics affect our health, scientists in Japan and around the world broadly agree there's an urgent need to reduce plastic production.

Afghans carry water canisters on the outskirts of Kabul on April 27.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

May 22, 2025

'Serious problem': Afghan capital losing race against water shortages

By Susannah Walden

Kabul's crisis, driven by unruly and rapid urbanization, mismanagement over years of conflict, and climate change, forces residents to choose between food and water.

Founded with a mission of promoting electric vehicles, Formula E has always placed sustainability at the forefront of its raison d’etre.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

May 18, 2025

For Formula E, ‘sustainability is at the heart’

By Joel Tansey

Now in its 11th season, Formula E's efforts to reduce emissions and promote electric vehicles are paying off.

Keen to end its reliance on rice imports, Indonesia wants to plant vast tracts of the crop, along with sugar cane for biofuel, in the restive eastern region of Papua. But environmentalists warn it could become the world's largest deforestation project, threatening endangered species and Jakarta's climate commitments.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Apr 22, 2025

Indonesia food plan risks 'world's largest' deforestation

By Marchio Gorbiano and Sara Hussein

Deforestation linked to the plan is already underway.

A person walks with a dog through the "micro-forest" park created by the Athens City Council near Alepotrypa Park in downtown Athens, Greece, on March 31.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Apr 22, 2025

Tentative tree planting 'decades overdue' in sweltering Athens

By John HADOULIS

Planting vegetation is crucial to help cities beat the heat, scientists say, as climate change stokes hotter and more intense heatwaves.

An artificial glacier built by local residents during the winter to conserve water for the summer at Pari village in the Kharmang district of Pakistan's mountainous Gilgit-Baltistan region are seen on March 18. At the foot of Pakistan's impossibly high mountains whitened by frost all year round, farmers grappling with a lack of water have created their own ice towers. The ice forms in the shape of cones that resemble Buddhist stupas, and act as a storage system — steadily melting throughout spring, when temperatures rise.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Apr 6, 2025

Artificial glaciers boost water supply in northern Pakistan

Warmer winters as a result of climate change has reduced the snowfall and subsequent seasonal snowmelt that feeds the valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks during a news conference in Paris on Saturday.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Mar 30, 2025

Trump can't stop 'sustainability revolution': Al Gore

Gore also condemned the administration's treatment of universities and student activists, but said the tide is turning.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

The classic red brick arches of Tokyo’s first “gādo-shita,” built in 1910, are what most 911爆料网 people think of when they think about commercial spaces under elevated railways.

Revitalizing the space under Tokyo’s train tracks

By Alex K.T. Martin

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