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Everimpact’s Alain Retiere visits a project site in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. Through a collaboration that also includes local foresters and Hitachi Systems, the team is striving to connect Japanese forestry with international carbon finance.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability / OUR PLANET

May 31, 2026

How carbon finance could give a boost to Japan’s ailing forestry industry

By Annelise Giseburt

The drop in value of forests has turned them into a burden, but one group hopes carbon credits could reverse that trend, while also helping the planet.

Indigenous Chief Bepdjo Mekragnotire, of the Kayapo ethnic group, speaks during interview at the Village of Pykany, Menkragnoti Indigenous Territory, southwestern Para state, Brazil, on May 21.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

May 30, 2026

New gold rush threatens indigenous havens in Brazil’s Amazon

By Fran BLANDY

“We have to expel them, otherwise, they’ll just keep pushing in,” said Indigenous Chief Bepdjo Mekragnotire.

Scientists have warned that many of Europe’s forests are bearing the scars of years of rising temperatures and intense drought.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

May 30, 2026

Trees taking drastic measures to survive climate-driven heat

By Sofia BOUDERBALA

Countless trees across Europe’s forests are adopting drastic — and often fatal — strategies to survive worsening heat and drought linked to climate change.

Toyota's bZ4X electric vehicle at an international car show in Indonesia in August 2023. At 10% of Japan’s economy, the automotive industry is a pillar of the nation.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability / OUR PLANET

May 24, 2026

Japan’s automotive industry is driving — slowly — toward a greener future

By Eric Margolis

While major carmakers have committed to cut emissions, the industry’s slow shift to EVs means that it faces a high hurdle if it wants to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

Peelable paper tubes for a solid perfume made from mineral paper on display at Yonwoo's cosmetic packaging factory in Incheon, South Korea

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Apr 15, 2026

Iran war promises green edge for Asia as plastic packaging runs short

By Minwoo Park, Kaori Kaneko and John Geddie

Across Asia, changes that ?environmental groups have sought for decades are quickly being adopted, even if they may prove a short-term flip.

Farmers separate wheat grains from husks at a farm on the outskirts of Varanasi, India, on Tuesday.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Apr 15, 2026

India’s green fuel plans collide with farmers’ water fears

By Bhasker Tripathi

India, which imports 80% of its oil and gas, has made ethanol central to its clean energy plans and, as war in the Mideast impacts the price and supply of oil, its energy security.

A worker sorts dismantled electronic parts at Ecowork, an e-waste recycling facility in Ghaziabad, India, on Feb. 12.

ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability

Feb 18, 2026

Junk to high-tech: India bets on e-waste for critical minerals

By Arunabh SAIKIA and Uzmi ATHAR

Global worries about China’s dominance as a critical minerals producer has galvanized New Delhi to ramp up extracting materials essential for it to become an AI hub.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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