Environmental issues

NUHS’ Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, first to repurpose dialysis water for plants, given PUB award

Senior Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment Goh Hanyan (left) presents the Singapore Watermark Award to NUHS Chief Operating Officer Ng Kian Swan at the award ceremony on Sept 25.

S’pore and Japan deepen ties on environment issues, including coastal protection and climate science

Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu (left) and Japan’s Minister of the Environment Hiroyoshi Sasagawa signed the Memorandum of Cooperation on Environment Matters on Sept 24.

Land planned for housing in Tengah converted to park after consulting nature groups: HDB

Land near Tengah Service Reservoir that was initially slated for housing was re-zoned to expand a future park.

Singapore set aside $3.7 billion of green-bond proceeds for electric rail expansion in FY2025

Construction work on the Jurong Region Line in Jurong East in August 2026. It is expected to be completed in 2029, with 24 stations serving the western part of Singapore.

Philippine tribe in limbo over US-led tech hub

The Philippines has designated a 1,620ha site in New Clark City in Tarlac province, north of Manila, for a manufacturing hub.

Small retailers with problems clearing non-BCRS stock may apply for 1-month extension: NEA

Under the scheme, all plastic bottles and cans with a volume of between 150ml and 3 litres must be labelled with the 10-cent deposit mark from Oct 1, or they cannot be sold.

Tokyo considers ordinance banning littering as downtown trash worsens

A large neon sign in the Shinjuku district in Tokyo. Shinjuku Ward will enforce a revised ordinance from October that adds food containers and disposable wooden chopsticks to prohibited litter.

Almost 8,000 excess deaths in France’s scorched summer, statistics show

Sunflowers dried out by the summer heat in Bois-de-Cene, western France, on Sept 3. The summer of 2026 was the hottest in France since 1900, surpassing 2003 and another severe spell of heat in 2022.

Google agrees biggest carbon-removal deal yet, aims to scale new model

The initiative, which Google said it hopes will serve as a template for future projects, is the first at such a scale to combine methane abatement and carbon removal.

‘It’s hard to be a snake’: S’pore artist draws 65 ‘vilified’ native species in colourful field guide

Author and illustrator Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray’s Snakes Of Singapore: A Slightly Unhinged Field Guide is a quirky panorama of all 65 known species of snakes found in Singapore.

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