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What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / OUR PLANET
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
At a global conference in smog-hit Malaysia, scientists outlined how the Earth¡¯s natural systems are buckling due to warming.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Summer heat¡¯s toll on Europe: 50,000 deaths and a €17 billion GDP hit
Almost two-thirds of the deaths linked to high summer temperatures would not have happened without climate change, a study showed.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nearly all coral reefs risk collapse in 50 years: IUCN
In its first global assessment, the world authority on threatened wildlife classified 96% of coral reef systems as ¡°critically endangered.¡±
People walk past damaged houses following deadly flash floods and a mudslide in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal, on Sept. 21
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 9, 2026
Inside the deadlock at the world¡¯s top climate science body
By Kate Abnett and Sudarshan Varadhan
Such assessments have informed every major United Nations climate agreement for three decades.
A local resident walks in a flooded area after heavy rain in Oami-Shirasato, Chiba Pref., on Aug. 14.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / Longform
Oct 9, 2026
Extreme rain is testing 91AVÔ­´´ flood defenses
By Alex K.T. Martin
More intense rain is overwhelming flood defenses and reaching places outside predicted risk zones, leaving residents to confront unexpected dangers.
Murat Kurum, Turkey's environment minister and president-designate of the COP31 summit, speaks during a news conference at a climate summit in Nadi, Fiji, on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 8, 2026
Climate needs same urgency as defense spending, COP31 chief says
By Ishika Mookerjee
Turkish Environment Minister and COP31 President-designate Murat Kurum said every country must show the same responsibility and determination.
Marisol Verdugo, 23 years old and 8 months pregnant, is helped by volunteers as she suffers a heat stroke at a distribution point where hundreds gather every week to receive food staples, baby products and fans donated by Fundacion Madrina NGO to cope with high summer temperatures, in Madrid in August 2023.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 5, 2026
Intense heat puts births in jeopardy, U.N. says during Fiji talks
By Ben Strang
The South Pacific is among the most vulnerable regions in the world to global warming.
A woman protects herself from the sun near the Eiffel Tower in Paris amid a heat wave in June. Heat can exacerbate existing illnesses and is particularly dangerous for vulnerable people including young children and the elderly.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 1, 2026
Heat deaths in Western Europe top 34,600 during hottest summer on record
Heat can exacerbate existing illnesses and is particularly dangerous for vulnerable people including young children and the elderly.
Casper Moller, who runs an Arctic tourism boat service company, looks at a floating ice block near Nuuk, Greenland, on Jan. 30.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 30, 2026
Polar oceans transformed as warming melts ice habitats, research shows
As temperatures rise, Arctic sea ice has shrunk by nearly half a million square kilometers per decade since 1979.
Livestock herder Bolormaa Erdenee looks on after milking a camel in the Gobi Desert on the outskirts of Choyr, Mongolia's Govisumber province, on Aug. 26. Mongolia is disproportionately affected by human-driven climate change.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 24, 2026
Mongolian herders enlist new tech against harsher, drier climate
An app is helping nomads track their livestock with a solar-charging GPS device attached to one animal per group as well as navigate extreme weather.

Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
By Elizabeth Beattie

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