The Stories That Matter To The Environment
Wildlife advocates are pressuring the government of China to promote more initiatives in saving the tiger as the nation celebrates the Year of the Tiger.
Wang Weisheng, China’s State Forestry Administration’s (SFA) wildlife management division director, said that 50 wild tigers of different subspecies are still present in China. The SFA is convinced that 10 Indochinese [...]
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Chinese solar companies could profit more from the subsidy cuts made throughout Europe despite being detrimental to their American and European peers as consumers seek for cheaper products to increase profit margins.
The governments of major solar markets in Europe like Italy and Germany are cutting down on back support schemes used for photovoltaic appliances for [...]
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The government of Bangladesh has refused to accept financial aid being offered to them through the World Bank, saying there will be unfavourable “strings and conditions” attached to it.
Coming from Britain, the £60m aid is intended to assist Bangladesh in coping with the effects of global warming. However, the Bangladeshi government opted to reject the [...]
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The Minerals Energy Commodities Holding (MEC) in the UAE is currently negotiating with Indonesia to lease approximately 100,000 hectares of farmland, the vice chairman of the firm stated on Sunday.
Gulf countries that rely mainly on imported food have increased their efforts to purchase land in developing countries like the Philippines, Pakistan and Ethiopia in order [...]
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Martin Parry, who had been silent on the controversy involving mistakes made by the climate change panel of the UN, finally came out to defend his work, describing it as “robust and rigorous.”
The climate expert from the Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College, London, stated that he was “perplexed” with how [...]
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