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Uzbekistan and China have elevated their partnership to “all-weather” strategic status, expanding cooperation in energy, ...
As deadly heatwaves sweep the U.S. and Europe and global climate talks stall, a new vision for climate tech is emerging from Southeast Asia. Indonesia’s ...
Climate change research in urban areas is skewed towards large, well-established global north cities, says analysis of over ...
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Climate brunt on Asia
In a slew of distressing climate news, yet another report highlights an ongoing consequence of global warming. According to the World Meteorological Organization, a specialised agency of the United ...
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Rising temperatures fuel extreme weather disasters across continent, threatening billions of lives and causing widespread ...
The region contributes about 50% of all new cancer cases (9.2 million) and over half of cancer deaths (5.1 million) worldwide each year.
“Looking at that 3 degrees centigrade warmer [than the year 2000] future corresponds to about a 13 percent loss in daily ...
We need to talk about lines on maps. Addressing climate change means addressing it not in the world we would like to live in – where multilateralism and global governance really matter – but on this ...
Even U.S. allies locked in national security disputes with Beijing, like the Philippines, are finding it impossible to resist China’s green energy infrastructure.
Southeast Asia Tourism Outlook: The region had a strong start in 2025, nearing full post-Covid recovery, but sentiment has recently shifted due to global economic pressures, especially from U.S ...
Between 2001 and 2022, about 40 per cent of peat swamp forests in South-east Asia in 2000 were lost. By 2017, the annual rate of loss of these forests had been 108,458ha a year, the study found.