A US$9 billion infrastructure project aims to turn the sparsely populated home to remote Indigenous tribes into a Hong Kong-like industrial port city that could see the local population increase by 8,000 per cent. Activists say the project is tantamount to genocide.
Hand-foot-mouth disease outbreaks, already common in Asia, could strike sooner, harder and with greater frequency if the world fails to keep temperature rise in check, a study says.
An analysis of public health data in Cambodia has found increased rates of malnutrition among children born in areas where deforestation had recently occurred.