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Poor rural communities in Laos are feeling the benefits of green energy, thanks to the efforts of a local energy company.

Vietnamese researchers are expanding the use of biogas as a sustainable energy source for the country's small businesses.

Small-scale solar power is taking off in Kenya due to its ease and cost-effectiveness — a welcome change from costly, unreliable electricity.

The UN supports forest protection in the next climate agreement, but questions on how to tackle deforestation are still being debated.

Climate change and overgrazing near Lake Hovsgol in northern Mongolia may cause irreversible damage to the surrounding ecosystem.

Climate change threatens food crops across the world. Now scientists are re-focusing their efforts on crop resilience, rather than yields.

Brazil's successful sugarcane ethanol industry owes much to massive investment in infrastructure and research, reports Carla Almeida.

Biofuel holds promise for Africa but research is not yet in place to fully reap the rewards, or analyse the pitfalls, reports Kimani Chege.

Many Indians have pinned their hopes on the jatropha plant as a source of biofuel that doesn't harm food security, writes Daemon Fairless.

Current models cannot properly predict monsoon rainfall in Asia — or how it will be affected by global warming, writes Jagadish Shukla.

Anthony Patt, Laban Ogallo, and Molly Hellmuth look back over ten years of Climate Outlook Forums for rainfall prediction in Africa.

India has experienced first-hand the delays and difficulties associated with developing a carbon credits market, writes Paroma Basu.

The palm oil industry needs to prove its sustainability and is turning to scientists for ways to minimise harm, reports Richard Stone.

Controlling the amount of pollution that goes into China's Taihu Lake is the key to managing the algal blooms, writes Lucie Guo.

Scientists in the Himalayas are battling poor resources to protect the area from the effects of climate change. T. V. Padma reports.

T. V. Padma reports on Bhutan's dilemma: how to reconcile conservation, economic development and happiness in a modern world.

Attempts to adjust gross domestic product across China by accounting for its toll on the local environment are floundering, Jane Qiu reports.

Faced with a changing climate, projects to help Africans adapt are springing up across the continent, reports Patrick Luganda.

Dust storms in China have been increasing, but a project in Bayinhushu shows how to reduce them, reports Dennis Normile.

Indonesia's carbon-storing peatlands are interesting the world's carbon-traders. But that's news to the locals, reports Gillian Murdoch.