Criminal Gangs Are Cashing In On Humanity’s Plastic Crap
It's the new hustle in organized crime: plastic.
Saqib Rahim
I'm a freelance reporter based in Southeast Asia. Previously, I covered US energy and climate policy at EENews.net. I've also done freelance work on sports, including an award-winning 2016 piece on the rise of sports activism. My work has appeared at EENews.net, VICE Sports, The Economist, SBNation, NYTimes.com, Dat Winning, NPR.org, Huffington Post, and Scientific American. Long-ago graduate of Johns Hopkins - SAIS. Wit of a Californian; warmth of a New Yorker.
Laos: The Messenger. A long read.
A profile of Anan Bouapha, who has emerged as a voice for the LGBTIQ community in Laos.
How to become a confused-ass Muslim
An essay on faith, family and double selves.
How investors are coming up with the green to save the ocean blue
"Green" financing is big business, and it's finally coming to oceans. Could it be a game-changer for seas battered by climate change and overfishing?
Interview on The Economist's "Intelligence" podcast
I was interviewed by The Economist's Intelligence podcast for my piece on Laos' famous ant-egg soup.
Urban Laotians pay handsomely for ant-egg soup
Laos is changing, and so is the way Lao people eat. Will ancient favorites like ant-egg soup have a future?
Terrible Satisfactions: On Nick Gulig's "Orient"
A review of Orient, a poetry collection by the Thai-American writer Nicholas Gulig. The work examines what it means to be American in an era of never-ending war.
Vietnam grapples with an unexpected surge in solar power
How Vietnam's solar sector exploded forward from a standing start.
Laos once considered the letter R a Western interloper. The Internet helped bring it back.
A story about history, and politics, and change.
How ‘Sikh Heritage Night’ at a Kings game sparked a movement against bigotry
This is the story of how "Sikh Heritage Night" started in one man's head, then spread to sports arenas all around America.
Moves to improve press freedom in Malaysia met with cautious optimism
For most of a century Malaysia's media has been under heavy state control. That may be about to change.
This floating solar farm is a dam clever climate change weapon
Why is Thailand combining solar panels with dams? Meet "floatovoltaics".
Malaysia’s R.AGE builds a business from advocacy journalism
I profile a team of Malaysian reporters experimenting at the digital -- and ethical -- edge of news.
SHALE@10: In N.Y., farmers think about what might have been
Ten years ago, "fracking" wasn't considered a partisan grenade in New York, and aspiring governor Andrew Cuomo was open to it. What changed?
OFFSHORE WIND: Nascent American industry could fully arrive under Trump
Donald Trump could have crushed offshore wind. Why didn't he?
GRID: Avangrid pitches $2.5B in resilience measures ($)
Grid-wrecking storms are "the new normal," energy giant Avangrid Inc. said as it rolled out $2.5 billion in proposed resilience measures this week.
NUCLEAR: Vermont Yankee could be rapidly dismantled under new plan ($)
Vermont officials want to hurry up the dismantling of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, a retired facility whose output was once equivalent to a third of the state's power use.
NEW YORK: Renewables advocates push to restore net metering ($)
Distributed-energy advocates in New York are trying to temporarily bring back the state's net-metering system, with a little help from Darth "VDER."
China is trying to manufacture a women’s hockey dynasty
China's never been a great hockey country. Yet it wants to challenge for a medal in the 2022 Olympics. Are they crazy to try it, or are we to doubt them?
MASSACHUSETTS: Bill would superspeed path to all renewables ($)
A bill to accelerate Massachusetts' renewable energy targets, en route to a 100 percent renewable grid, is advancing.
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