Originally from rural Yorkshire, Michael has more than 15 years of journalism experience – mostly with Thomson Reuters. He moved to Asia in 2011 and has reported from various countries across the region. Michael’s interest in climate change and resilience began while posted in Indonesia, where he reported on the annual haze, natural disasters, food security, deforestation and infrastructure from the capital Jakarta. He joined the Thomson Reuters Foundation as its Asia resilience correspondent in late 2017.
A fifth of the world's major cities will face "unknown" climate conditions by 2050, researchers warned on Wednesday, as rising temperatures heighten the risks of drought and flooding.
Researchers have identified swathes of lost tropical rainforests as the best places to replant trees, hoping to redress some of the damage done by deforestation and limit climate change.
In a region where seas are awash with trash, East Timor is set to become the world's first country to recycle all its plastic waste after it teamed up with Australian researchers on Frida...
Kuala Lumpur, April 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world's recyclable plastic is being shipped to Asia where it is illegally dumped, buried or burned in the country with the lighte...
Almost a decade after Norway signed a $1-billion deal with Indonesia to help protect its tropical forests, the first payment for reduced emissions will be made after deforestation rates f...
Implementing green strategies like bike lanes and better building codes could bring 94 world cities a collective $583 billion worth of benefits, while fighting climate change, according t...
A feminist manga-style artist says she will use characters based on an Egyptian pharaoh and a Chinese empress to bring more female empowerment to the male-dominated world of comic books.
Indonesian poultry farmer Yohanes Sugihtononugroho faced ruin four years ago when plummeting prices forced him to slaughter all 100,000 of his chickens and shutter his business.
Economic losses caused by drought in China will rocket to tens of billions of dollars per year if global warming breaches the limits set by governments in a 2015 agreement to tackle clima...
Economic losses caused by climate-related disasters have soared by about two and a half times in the last 20 years, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
At the entrance to the spaceship-like command center for the Indonesian city of Bandung, all workers remove their shoes before starting their shift, the better to keep the carpets clean.
Asia's growing appetite for meat and seafood over the next three decades will cause huge increases in greenhouse gas emissions and antibiotics used in foods, researchers said on Tuesday.
For the millions of sun seekers who head to Thailand's resort island of Phuket each year in search of stunning beaches and clear waters, cutting down on waste may not be a top priority.
A "living library" project in Malaysia's capital is lending out older people's knowledge to the young, to improve the lives of pensioners and bridge Kuala Lumpur's generation gap.
