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Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / OUR PLANET
Oct 25, 2026
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.
An internally displaced family sits at a makeshift shelter during a visit by World Food Program officials to assess the knock-on effects from the escalation of hostilities in the Middle East in Kahda district of Mogadishu on May 7.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
The U.S.-Iran war is making world hunger much worse
The combined scourges of undernourishment, child stunting and wasting have become worse, halting a two-decade trend of improvement.
Dead coral on a beach off the coast of India's Nadu state in September. Almost all shallow-water coral reefs around the world are at "extremely high risk" of disappearing by 2075 due to climate change, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warned on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 22, 2026
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.”
The venue for the COP17 event in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on Thursday
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Oct 19, 2026
World faces nature reality check at U.N. biodiversity conference
Scientists say many of the broader goals needed to halt biodiversity loss remain well off track.
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
AI-enhanced humanoid robots are serviced at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 15, 2026
When AI acts without orders, national security is at risk
These AI systems are doing what they were designed to do: pursuing goals and finding ways around obstacles.
South African jurist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay poses in Nuremberg, Germany, on Friday, soon after being awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2026
And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to the opposite of Trump
ICC jurists have now been frozen out of everything from bank accounts to VISA and Mastercard credit cards and Amazon subscriptions.
Two girls overlook a camp for displaced people in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, on June 23.
WORLD
Oct 12, 2026
UNRWA warns Gaza is becoming an increasingly unlivable place
Gaza faces persistent shortages of medical supplies due to delivery restrictions. Hygiene conditions also remain dire.
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
Such assessments have informed every major United Nations climate agreement for three decades.
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
Turkish Environment Minister and COP31 President-designate Murat Kurum said every country must show the same responsibility and determination.
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi meets with his Indian and American counterparts, S. Jaishankar and Marco Rubio, on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Manila on July 22.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 7, 2026
Reports of rising powers’ demise are premature
Shifts in global power may become less dramatic than in past centuries, but economic change and coalition-building still reshape hierarchies.
A worker visits a patient in an isolation unit at an Ebola treatment center in Monigi, Congo, in June.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2026
Ebola spreads ‘like wildfire’ as health workers battle exhaustion
The widening footprint of hot spots is straining a humanitarian response weakened by major aid cuts.
A U.S. Marine drapes an American flag over the face of a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on April 9, 2003, shortly before the statue was pulled down.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 5, 2026
The Iraq War is finally over. It did some good.
About 4,500 Americans died in Iraq since 2003, around 3,500 in combat, and more than 30,000 were wounded.
Power-generating wind turbines in Bac Lieu province, Vietnam. The country is sitting on significant numbers of stalled but largely finished renewable generation projects.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2026
Vietnam can’t beat China with the lights out
Vietnam’s stalled renewable projects threaten its ability to meet soaring power demand and maintain its role as a key alternative to China.
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.
Smoke rises as fire burns following a Myanmar military airstrike, according to a rebel group that controls the area and a local aid worker, in Kyauktaw, Rakhine State, Myanmar, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video released Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 30, 2026
U.N. alarmed by reports that Myanmar air strike killed 50
The Kyauktaw airstrike is the deadliest such attack since a December hospital bombing killed at least 30 people.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday. In his speech, Lavrov made remarks against Japan and Germany, saying both countries were on a path of militarization.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 28, 2026
Tokyo rebuts Russia’s U.N. speech accusing Japan of militarization
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s remarks were “factually incorrect.”
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?
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures toward United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after addressing the 81st U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 22. Guterres is preparing to step down when his term expires at the end of the year.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 27, 2026
Trump is setting up the U.N. and its next leader for failure
The U.N. system is “rotting from the head down,” Richard Gowan, an expert at the International Crisis Group said.
Delcy Rodriguez, Venezuela's acting president, during the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 27, 2026
Venezuela president returns from U.S. visit with no deals or firm election date
It was Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez’s first visit to the U.S. since American forces captured then-President Nicolas Maduro in January.
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.
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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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