This is the first installment of our Restoration Global Tour blog series. The series examines restoration success stories in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe and North America. Tune in over the coming months for additional installments, or check out our Restoration Diagnostic for more information.

WRI – A history of deforestation has made Asian nations like Vietnam, China and South Korea especially vulnerable to coastal storms, floods and sandstorms. Yet just as these nations have experienced similar crises, they’re also all pursuing a solution—restoring degraded landscapes.
In fact, reforestation, afforestation and changing agricultural policies have played a large role in bringing these countries from the brink to prosperity. WRI recently analyzed Asia’s restoration practices to inform the design of our Restoration Diagnostic, a method for evaluating existing and missing success factors for countries or landscapes with restoration opportunities. Here’s a look at how these countries overcame disasters by restoring degraded land: Tiếp tục đọc “Crisis Response: When Trees Stop Storms and Deserts in Asia”





2 tàu cá Trung Quốc neo sát ngay ở khu vực nhà giàn DK1/21 – Ảnh: Mai Thanh Hải
Khu trục hạm USS Curtis Wilbur được cho là hiện diện gần đảo Tri Tôn – Ảnh: Hải quân MỹHải quân Mỹ ngày 30.1 triển khai tàu khu trục mang tên lửa đến gần quần đảo Hoàng Sa để duy trì tự do hàng hải trong khu vực.
The newly created Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) 
economist – GUO, the driver, pulls his car to a merciful halt high above a crevasse: time for a cigarette, and after seven hours of shuddering along narrow, twisting roads, time for his passengers to check that their fillings remain in place. Lighting up, he steps out of the car and dons a cloth cap and jacket: sunny, early-summer days are still brisk 3,500 metres above sea level. Mr Guo is an impish little dumpling of a man, bald, brown-toothed and jolly. He is also an anomaly: a Shanghainese in northern Yunnan who opted to stay with his local bride rather than return to his booming hometown.
Tiếp tục đọc “Requiem for a river: Can one of the world’s great waterways survive its development?” →