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The Portland Aluminium smelter in Portland, Australia. Closing power plants before replacements are ready has left the country with fewer options, which should serve as a warning to Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
Australia’s energy transition offers a warning to the world
An energy-rich country is spending billions to keep its aluminum smelters operating. Its policy choices help explain why.
By pushing to delay the next major U.N. climate report, global polluters are trying to weaken international accountability and shield themselves from political pressure ahead of a critical 2028 global progress review.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 16, 2026
Petrostates are trying to hijack climate science again
Any delay would reduce pressure on countries to meet their Paris climate agreement goals
Motorists are pictured on the road to the Central Business District in Singapore on Friday, as haze from wildfires in Indonesia shrouds the region.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 16, 2026
Singapore probing firms over haze-causing Indonesian fires
The city-state and neighboring Malaysia have been blanketed for weeks by toxic smog from a severe wildfire season in Indonesia.
Motorcyclists in Palangkaraya, Indonesia, on Wednesday amid thick haze from forest and land fires in the region
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 15, 2026
Haze turns Indonesia skies orange and shuts schools in East Timor
Fires burning for months in Indonesia have sent smoke across the region, and East Timor began a three-day school closure prompted by the haze.
A newborn green turtle crawls across a sandy beach towards the sea after being released from a wildlife protected area on Mataking Island in Malaysia's Sabah region on Sept. 25. Green turtles have made the rare jump from endangered to "least concern," a remarkable conservation success at a time when many species are declining globally.
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Oct 14, 2026
Green turtles buck trend of species decline, offering hope for conservationists
Populations of the species have become more stable thanks to decades of efforts including egg relocation, marine protection and trade bans.
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
The South Pacific is among the most vulnerable regions in the world to global warming.
The KL Tower and other buildings shrouded by haze in Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 21. Schools in neighboring Singapore have been closed and respiratory complaints have been skyrocketing, but existing legal frameworks offer little recourse to tackles transboundary air pollution.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 1, 2026
Indonesia’s neighbors powerless as smoke from monthlong wildfires shuts schools
Respiratory complaints have been skyrocketing, but existing legal frameworks offer little recourse to tackles transboundary air pollution.
Nepali Prime Minister Balendra Shah addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 24, where he made a plea for climate justice in the wake of recent deadly glacial floods.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 1, 2026
Nepal’s PM says when the house is burning, we act
Nepal is not a passive bystander to a remote emergency; it is its barometer, and the instruments are flashing red.
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.
The newly completed Arctic research vessel Mirai II will be delivered to the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology on Dec. 18.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2026
91AV原创 new arctic research vessel set to arrive in December
Mirai II will replace the 8,700-ton Mirai, which was decommissioned in December last year.
An octopus and a fish at Porthkerris reef off Cornwall, England, in August of last year
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Sep 29, 2026
How Europe’s intensifying marine heat waves threaten its fisheries
Species that have sustained coastal communities in Spain and southern England for generations are disappearing.
Atsuo Tanaka and others in a group has been raising honeybees on a building rooftop in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2026
Tokyo’s Ginza marks 20 years of urban beekeeping
Designed to foster harmony between cities and nature, the project has many followers nationwide and is seen as a model for urban beekeeping.
Participants at an event in Kitakyushu play the Rhythm for Life-Saving game, which teaches children about CPR and emergency response essentials.
COMMENTARY / World / OUR PLANET
Sep 27, 2026
Real sustainability means getting serious about youth leadership
For decades, youth have been told they are the future. But when it comes to sustainability practices, are we truly listening to what they have to say?
Japan's annual sake rice harvest is approaching, but hotter summers are changing the ways the grains are behaving once they reach the brewery.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 27, 2026
As temperatures rise, 91AV原创 sake rice is feeling the heat
Scorching summers are changing the way sake rice performs in the brewery. Are new heat-resistant breeds the answer?
A rooftop garden at Hotel Niwa Tokyo, with plants growing in suitcases, in May
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 25, 2026
Abandoned suitcases used as vegetable planters at Tokyo hotel
The hotel has grown about 40 varieties of vegetables and herbs. Some of the harvest is served at restaurants in the hotel.
Nepalese Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal speaks during an interview in Kathmandu on Sept. 1 in the aftermath of flash floods.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Sep 25, 2026
Rich nations should foot climate bill, says Nepalese minister
The Himalayan nation suffered one of the worst catastrophes in its history late last month when a tsunami-like flood cut a swath of destruction.
Turkish Environment Minister Murat Kurum, who is COP31 president, is calling for a refocus on the “greatest threat” that is “at our doorstep, which is climate change.”
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2026
Turkey’s environment minister lays out agenda for COP31 summit
Amid artificial intelligence and war concerns, the head of 2026’s U.N. climate summit appealed to global business leaders to keep emissions in focus.
With 16,000 people per square kilometer, Seoul is more densely packed than London, New York or Tokyo, putting a strain on both housing and greenery.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 22, 2026
Seoul’s green space is a battleground for its mayor and South Korea’s president
The clash reflects a global urban-policy conundrum: how cities can manage housing shortages without destroying liveability and environmental health.
A car drives down the BR-156 highway between Amapa state capital Macapa and the town of Oiapoque also in the state, near the border with French Guiana in Brazil on Sept. 2.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Sep 21, 2026
Oil exploration in Brazilian Amazon offers wealth but puts communities at risk
While oil could fund a shift to clean energy and help address poverty, the search to find it disturbs the environment and could cause lasting damage.
Members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces are seen on the deck of the Japanese Osumi-class tank landing ship JS Kunisaki, docked at Kijing International Port shrouded in haze from wildfires in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, on Sept. 12.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Sep 16, 2026
Indonesia’s choking wildfire and haze worsen breathing woes on Borneo
The country is experiencing its most intense fires in 11 years as “super-El Nino” conditions drive up temperatures and cause punishing droughts.
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.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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