Sustainability

Science 6 min Nearly 27% of the World's Land May Already Be Conserved, Well Above the Official 18.5%, Nature Study Estimates A sample of 25 countries finds protected areas missing from global records, putting the 30 by 30 land goal wit... NA Nadia Rahim 19 Oct Sustainability 6 min There is no such thing as Malaysia's grid emission factor The Energy Commission publishes three regional factors spanning 3.7 times — Peninsular 0.740, Sabah 0.539, Sar... NA Nadia Rahim 12 Sep Consumer Tech 6 min The same iPhone has two official EU labels and they disagree The EU register holds two Product Information Sheets for one iPhone 15 128 GB — Apple's and a Slovak refurbish... AM Amelia Wong 11 Sep Home & Living 5 min New air conditioners clear a global-warming limit on 2013 figures Singapore bars household air conditioners whose refrigerant exceeds a global warming potential of 750. The reg... AM Amelia Wong 4 Sep Sustainability 8 min Tesla Installed About 3,000 Solar Roofs In Seven Years, And Has Now Stopped At its peak the company was completing 21 to 32 installations a week, more than 95 per cent short of the origi... NA Nadia Rahim 23 Aug Sustainability 8 min Singapore Will Import 900MW Of Solar From The Johor It Competes With For Power Two conditional approvals cover 300MW to Sembcorp and 600MW to a Ditrolic subsidiary, from solar and storage i... NA Nadia Rahim 22 Aug Sustainability 7 min Annual Rainfall Will Not Size Your Tank Singapore and Manila are within five per cent of each other on annual rainfall, and their driest months are 11... NA Nadia Rahim 14 Aug Sustainability 6 min What Does "Plant a Tree to Offset It" Actually Buy? Carbon calculators end by translating your emissions into trees, and the unit that translation produces is the... NA Nadia Rahim 13 Aug Sustainability 5 min Flying Against Driving, and the Units Nobody Checks Both confident answers to this question are built on comparing a per-passenger figure with a per-vehicle one.... NA Nadia Rahim 13 Aug Sustainability 6 min Nuclear Reactors Are Going to Sea. Nobody Has Agreed Who Licenses Them. The IAEA launches ATLAS in Washington this month, covering nuclear-powered ships and floating power plants. Th... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 11 Aug Sustainability 7 min The Pentagon Has Committed More to This Battery Company Than Every Investor Combined A conditional commitment of up to $1.4 billion from the Office of Strategic Capital roughly matches everything... NA Nadia Rahim 11 Aug Sustainability 8 min Google Is Building a $15 Billion Campus in a City That Rations Water Google's $15 billion data centre campus near Visakhapatnam faces a High Court petition and three environmental... NA Nadia Rahim 8 Aug Sustainability 8 min Singapore Cannot Say How Long Finished Solar Panels Wait for the Grid. Nobody Records It Asked for the average time between a completed solar installation and grid connection, MTI said the data does... NA Nadia Rahim 8 Aug Sustainability 8 min Malaysia Says Data Centres Will Take 31% of Its Electricity by 2035 A written parliamentary reply puts data-centre electricity use at 31 per cent of national consumption by 2035,... NA Nadia Rahim 5 Aug Sustainability 11 min Solar Payback on a Tropical Roof Malaysia gets more sun than Singapore, and our own calculator duly reported that a Malaysian roof paid for its... DA Daniel Koh 29 Jul Home & Living 15 min House Calculations for a Tropical Climate Ask this site how much air-conditioning a Petaling Jaya bedroom needs and, until this week, you got two differ... AM Amelia Wong 29 Jul Cloud & Infra 8 min Wafr's $100M Cooling Raise Is Small — the AI Data-Centre Water Problem It Targets Is Not Vancouver startup Wafr Technologies said on 2 July 2026 it had raised $100 million toward a $300 million goal... KE Kenji Tanaka 9 Jul