Report: Forest encroachment for maize cultivation increased in Lower Mekong

The crop’s slash-and-burn practice, responsible for toxic air pollution in the region, is rising, Greenpeace says.

Floods swamp Hong Kong streets after record rainfall in wake of Super Typhoon Haikui

2023-09-08

Residents criticize the government over the lack of early warning, and 2 people die.

A woman stands on a street as she shields herself from the sun, amid an alert for heatwave in Shanghai, China, Aug. 10, 2023.

Summer 2023 was the hottest on record, UN report says

2023-09-06

Heatwaves worsen air quality and pollution, World Meteorological Organization warns

China’s average coal power emissions rise by a third, report says

China’s average coal power emissions rise by a third, report says

Australia, South Korea and China are top coal electricity polluters per capita.

Harmful invasive plant and animal species pose severe threat to nature: report

Harmful invasive plant and animal species pose severe threat to nature: report

A quarter of invasive species reports were noted in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tens of thousands gather in Seoul to protest Fukushima discharge

Tens of thousands gather in Seoul to protest Fukushima discharge

The mass rally is the second since Japan started releasing nuclear wastewater.

Upset about Fukushima, Chinese netizens bash Japan, make nuisance calls

Upset about Fukushima, Chinese netizens bash Japan, make nuisance calls

Some Hong Kong news outlets point out that Chinese reactors’ wastewater is more contaminated.

Beijing’s protests over Fukushima water release spark panic-buying of salt

Beijing’s protests over Fukushima water release spark panic-buying of salt

But Chinese tourists seem keen to visit Japan after Beijing’s lifting of a group tour ban.

Smoking chimneys are seen along a highway in a coal producing region in Yulin in northwestern China’s Shaanxi province, April 24, 2023.

IMF: China leads as global fossil fuel subsidies hit record $7 trillion

Governments spent more in trying to stabilize consumer prices, it says.

An aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which started releasing treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Aug. 24, 2023.

Japan releases Fukushima nuclear wastewater despite concerns

A landscape of glacier deposits is seen on the Puncak Jaya mountain in the Papuan central highlands located in the eastern region of Indonesia in this undated photograph released July 2, 2010.

Hastened by El Niño, Indonesia’s rare glacier may vanish by 2026

Smoke and steam rise from towers at the coal-fired Urumqi Thermal Power Plant in Urumqi in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, April 21, 2021.

G20 spent a record $1.4 trillion on fossil fuels in 2022, report says

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