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Eco-Business, Monday 27 August 2018
A Malaysian port city grapples with Chinese funding fallout
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed has put the brakes on key Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in Pahang state—including a fast rail link to Singapore—a slowdown that could benefit b...
The Week, Saturday 25 August 2018
The sustainable sago eco beads from Malaysia
A team from the University of Technology, Mara in Malaysia have created beads from waste sago fibre. Green, yellow, blue, black, pink, reddish orange and brown beads have been aesthetically strung together to form stylish jewellery.
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Eco Business, Monday 20 August 2018
Wealthy countries can no longer pretend that climate change won’t affect them
It has taken hundreds of heat-related deaths across the northern hemisphere for climate change to make global headlines.
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Eco Business, Friday 17 August 2018
Air pollution tanks South Asia’s cities in liveability rankings
South Asian cities have fallen lower in a ranking of the world’s most liveable cities due to the deteriorating quality of air.
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Eco Business, Friday 17 August 2018
Restricting global warming to 1.5C would ‘halve’ risk of marine heatwaves
Such a surge in heatwaves could push “marine organisms and ecosystems to the limits of the resilience and even beyond, which could cause irre...
Eco Business, Friday 3 August 2018
Natural waste holds promise of safe plastic
The good news is that safe plastic is not an impossible dream: novel ways to tackle the tide of discarded material engulfing the planet are under d...