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Rice Methane Explained: Can Alternate Wetting and Drying Help?
How alternate wetting and drying can reduce rice methane, why nitrous oxide matters, and what reliable irrigation means for farmers in Southeast Asia.
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Asia’s Ocean Heat Record: What the WMO 2025 Report Shows
WMO’s review of 2025 highlights ocean heat and marine heatwaves across Asia. Learn what the findings mean and why local warnings still matter.
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Battery Storage Explained: Why Megawatts and Megawatt-Hours Both Matter
Understand battery power, energy capacity and discharge duration, with a simple worked example and questions to ask about solar-plus-storage projects.
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Renewable Capacity Is Growing. Why That Is Not the Same as Clean Electricity
Learn what renewable capacity figures measure, why gigawatts differ from electricity generation, and how to read clean-power claims.
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EV Lifecycle Emissions: What Southeast Asian Drivers Should Know
Battery production, charging electricity and driving distance all shape an electric car’s climate footprint. Here is how to read the evidence in Southeast Asia.
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Southeast Asia’s Air-Conditioning Boom: What the 2026 IEA Outlook Means
The IEA projects a tripling of residential air conditioners by 2035. What that means for electricity, efficient buildings and cooling access in Southeast Asia.
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Urban Heat Islands: Why Cities Stay Hot—and What Can Cool Them
Explore why cities retain heat, what thermal maps really show, and how to assess shade trees, cool roofs and neighbourhood cooling projects.
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How Much Energy Does AI Really Use?
AI has no single electricity cost per question. Explore what current evidence tells us about training, inference, data centres and the climate impact of growing demand.
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ASEAN’s Data Centre Boom: From 9 TWh to 68 TWh by 2030
Southeast Asia's data centre electricity demand is set to grow sevenfold by 2030. Here's what's driving it, which grids can absorb it, and what it costs.
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Gaming’s Carbon Footprint: What 3 Billion Players Cost the Planet
Gaming produces over 81 million tonnes of CO2 a year. Here's where the emissions come from, why cloud gaming makes it worse, and what actually cuts…
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