Green Network Asia

16/09/2025

African elephants are known as ecosystem engineers, helping to form the landscape they inhabit to support other animals and plants. However, their population has been declining significantly due to rampant poaching and habitat loss. How does this decline affect tree populations?

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Known as the ecosystem engineers, the absence of African elephants disrupts ecosystem wellbeing. How?

15/09/2025

These days, breathing clean air feels like a luxury when it should be our right. Meanwhile, many of the sources of outdoor air pollution also emit high CO2 emissions, such as vehicle emissions and industrial activities. Understanding air pollution and its impacts on both our health and the environment becomes crucial in tackling the root causes of the issue.

Read the full article at Green Network Asia: https://greennetwork.asia/gna-knowledge-hub/understanding-air-pollution-as-risks-to-human-and-planetary-health/

Understanding air pollution and its impacts on both our health and the environment becomes crucial in tackling the root causes of the issue.

12/09/2025

Excessive greenhouse gas emissions have led to a global rise in temperatures. More greenhouse gases are trapped in the oceans, causing the water to warm up. In the Great Barrier Reef, marine ecosystems are under pressure from warming oceans and predator species, reversing the previous progress.

Read the full article at Green Network Asia: https://greennetwork.asia/gna-knowledge-hub/in-the-great-barrier-reef-corals-suffer-under-cumulative-pressure/

The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has experienced the largest annual decline in coral cover so far in 39 years.

11/09/2025

Adequate and balanced nutrition is essential for children’s physical and cognitive development, which directly affects concentration and academic performance. However, child malnutrition remains a global challenge. Thus, free school meal programs emerge around the world as an effort to tackle the issue. In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the Regional Agenda for Sustainable School Feeding (RAES) aims to integrate school feeding programs into permanent national policies and strengthen existing ones. How is it implemented?

Read the full article at Green Network Asia: https://greennetwork.asia/gna-knowledge-hub/looking-into-the-school-feeding-programs-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/

School feeding programs in Latin America and the Caribbean aim to evolve into national policies that support nutrition, education, and local economies.

10/09/2025

[COMMUNITY] Like anywhere in the world, environmental issues are becoming increasingly relevant in Europe. With the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, countries worldwide are upping their efforts and commitments in achieving these targets, including on improving waste management. In Germany, there is a waste management system that allows people to trade trash for deposit: the pfandsystem.

Read the full article on Green Network Asia's "Community" platform: https://greennetwork.asia/gna-knowledge-hub/germanys-pfandsystem-a-trash-deposit-system-for-waste-management/

In Germany, there is a waste management system that allows people to trade trash for deposit: the pfandsystem.

09/09/2025

The transportation system connects people to their workplaces, schools, hospitals, markets, and each other, making it central to social and economic opportunities. Yet, throughout the Asia-Pacific region, urban transport systems often make daily mobility particularly challenging for vulnerable groups. What are the keys to ensuring inclusive urban transport systems for all?

Read the full article at Green Network Asia: https://greennetwork.asia/gna-knowledge-hub/keys-to-ensuring-inclusive-urban-transport-systems-in-the-asia-pacific/

ESCAP shares five key guidelines to create equitable urban transport systems amidst unequal access in the Asia-Pacific.

08/09/2025

From frequent heatwaves to rising sea levels, we have been forced to witness how climate change is transforming our current reality and the future ahead of us. Now, the crisis is slowly erasing our past, too. Heritage sites around the world, which have existed for centuries, are facing threats from erosion, extreme weather events, and flooding. What are some of the challenges and opportunities in addressing the issue?

Read the full article: https://greennetwork.asia/gna-knowledge-hub/preserving-heritage-sites-in-the-face-of-climate-change/

Heritage sites around the world suffer the impacts of the crisis, calling for efforts to strengthen climate resilience.

08/09/2025

Environmental education is a learning process that develops awareness, knowledge, values, and skills to address environmental challenges. Beyond teaching ecological concepts, it should also encourage learners to adopt sustainable practices in their daily lives. How is it integrated into the formal school curriculum in Odisha, India?

Read the full article: https://greennetwork.asia/gna-knowledge-hub/building-resilience-through-environmental-education-in-odisha/

05/09/2025

Amidst economic volatility, political chaos, and rampant environmental degradation, the people of Southeast Asia are stepping up to help each other through an organic digital-based grassroots movement.

From this, the moniker SEAblings has emerged to illustrate the region’s cross-border solidarity. It reminds us of community and what the people can do together. After all, while the act itself is about giving, the movement is about solidarity, not charity.

Read the full article: https://greennetwork.asia/gna-knowledge-hub/seablings-and-beyond-the-rise-of-grassroots-movements-amidst-crisis/

Amidst multiple ongoing crises, the SEAblings are stepping up to help each other through an organic digital-based grassroots movement.

04/09/2025

[THOUGHT LEADERSHIP | OPINION] Sharks were once rulers of the seas. Now, they are reduced to commodities, destined for distant markets to supply the global shark fin trade. For the fishermen, the catch means income. For the sharks, it means a vanishing population. For the world, it signals an unfolding ecological crisis.

The tension between protecting the ecosystem and sustaining human survival is a complex and persistent one. Despite efforts in halting the exploitative shark fin trade, unsustainable practices remain rampant. The absence of strong, coordinated trade regulations still allow threatened sharks to flood international markets.

Read the full article on Green Network Asia's "Opinion" platform: https://greennetwork.asia/gna-knowledge-hub/turning-the-tide-on-the-global-shark-fin-trade-from-our-bowl-to-the-world/

Once rulers of the seas, sharks are now reduced to commodities, destined for distant markets to supply the global shark fin trade.

01/09/2025

Women’s sports are undeniably gaining momentum in today’s era. Yet, despite this progress, the reality of unequal pay in sports remains a persistent issue, where women athletes still earn significantly less than males, regardless of performance and popularity. Then, what does it take to address the gender pay gap in sports?

Read the full article: https://greennetwork.asia/gna-knowledge-hub/looking-into-the-gender-pay-gap-in-sports-and-what-it-entails/

The persistent gender pay gap in sports continues to undermine women athletes’ recognition, wellbeing, and career longevity.

29/08/2025

[GNA COMMUNITY CONTENT] To the people of Asinan Village in Central Java, Indonesia, the Rawa Pening lake is a vital source of their livelihood. However, the wetland ecosystem has been showing signs of degradation, which prompted the government to launch a revitalization project.

In principle, this project is crucial for preserving the lake’s ecological function and promoting long-term sustainability. In reality, however, the process is far from painless for the local communities.

Read the full article on Green Network Asia's "Community Content" platform: https://greennetwork.asia/gna-knowledge-hub/the-revitalization-of-rawa-pening-and-the-struggle-to-balance-people-and-the-planet/