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Can Payments for Ecosystem Services bridge the gap between environmental protection and economic development? [Continue]

China’s environmental laws are often viewed as paper tigers, but a quiet environmental transformation is overtaking China as provincial leaders throughout the country push to limit pollution. [Continue]

A new crop of highly-efficient and sustainable towers are springing up in China. What does this mean for the future sustainable design? [Continue]

Japan has tapped a new source of fossil fuels, one with the potential to reshape the world energy landscape. [Continue]

Oxford researchers say acute poverty could be eradicated in some of the poorest countries by 2033. A United Nations report says extreme poverty could swallow up 3.1 billion by 2050. How do we reconcile these claims? [Continue]