It pays to fight climate change, new research suggests. Transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources won’t be cheap or easy. But new research suggests the investments will pay off in the long run. That’s because the cost of inacti...

Sri Lanka's State Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Dilip Wedaarachchi stressed that the projects initiated should not be just another project but projects that would benefit the people of the country. This was stated by the Mini...

Japan's new environment minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, pledged on Sunday to mobilise young people to push his coal-dependent country towards a low-carbon future by making the fight against climate change "sexy" and "fun." Koizumi was speaking on the eve o...

A day after climate strikes convulsed cities across the globe, with hundreds of thousands of young people opting to skip school and take to the streets instead, youth leaders have gathered at the United Nations to demand radical action on climate change. ...

In 2006, a young Cambodian sculptor, Vannak Anan Prum, left his village to look for labouring work. He needed to earn enough money to pay for his wife Sokun’s impending hospital stay to give birth to their first child. He intended to be away for two mon...

Malaysia's Fisheries Department today denied a report by Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network, that Malaysia ranked eighth in the highest catch of sharks in the world. It said the report released by Traffic last September 11 that Malaysia cau...

Việt Nam has implemented many solutions according to the European Commission (EC)’s nine recommendations to remove the yellow card warning on the country’s fishing industry. In November, the EC will come to Việt Nam for the second time to check an...

The United States made a preliminary decision on Thursday (local time) to designate South Korea as a country that engages in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, calling on Asia's fourth-largest economy to adopt tougher regulations. The ...

A list of demands from the National Fishing Association of Thailand (NFAT) – shared with Thai government officials in a closed-door meeting – could “derail the reform of the country’s fisheries,” according to the Environmental Justice Foundation...

Typhoon Faxai, which made landfall in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Sept. 8 and 9, dealt a serious blow to the local fisheries industry. Refrigerating facilities and fish farms stopped functioning because of power blackouts triggered by the typho...