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New assessment urges a climate-smart approach to Indonesia’s waste sector amid landfill crises and growing climate finance opportunities.   Bandung, 26 May 2025 — Composting organic waste and implementing decentralized zero waste strategies could enable Indonesia to meet its climate targets…

Devarshi Narad Jayanti Award-2025 Conferred on Shantanu Tamuli Guwahati: The world’s first journalist Devarshi Narad did not have a palatial bungalow and he did not practice journalism with the royal patronage even though he had access to all Gods. But…

Toxics Watchdog Group Promotes Strict Compliance to Lead Paint Ban to Protect Children’s Health   2 June 2025, Quezon City.  As part of its sustained advocacy to promote a toxic-free school environment, the EcoWaste Coalition today released a list of…

by Irshad Ahmad Mughal The solution is simple: sit together, engage in dialogue, resolve conflicts, and establish trade relations to bring prosperity to South Asia. Yet our leaders embark on global tours, spouting complex rhetoric while avoiding the straightforward path…

The 3rd RISE 2025: ICREATE IMPACT International Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Conference, held from May 28 to 30, 2025, at WCC Aeronautical & Technological College in Binalonan, Pangasinan, once again showcased groundbreaking research and innovation aligned with the United Nations Sustainable…

Nearly 70 percent of China’s foreign power investments from 2022 to 2023 were in renewables like solar and wind, surpassing fossil fuels for the first time since Beijing started backing power projects overseas in the early 2000s, according to a new analysis from the Global Development Policy…

By Genevieve Balance Kupang As a professor guiding doctoral learners, there are moments when the impact of our work becomes profoundly clear. This academic year, I received messages from my mentees that resonated deeply, reaffirming the power of appreciation in education…

The Godi media (“embedded journalism” favoring the government) in India did not hesitate to claim that there was a power struggle after a faceoff with the COAS (Chief of Army Staff) over holding a general election by the end of…

by Irshad Ahmad Mughal When I was a young trainee as a community development worker, I was told: “Never lose sight of the forest by counting individual trees.” This lesson taught me to adopt a holistic perspective—a mindset that now helps me…

After facing the shock of 5,33,666 deaths during the previous Covid-19, is India equipped to face the new wave of the pandemic? The new dinosaur of the wave is knocking at the door and presently there are 1010 active cases…