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Asia-Pacific is where climate change stops being theoretical. The disasters, the energy transition, and the disappearing coastlines defining the planet’s most consequential region.
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Aug- 2026 -12 August
Beijing shut down as Typhoon Dolphin’s rainfall shattered August records
Record daily totals of 209.5 mm in Wugang and 150+ mm in the capital exposed gaps in China's flood defences, forcing mass evacuations and transport collapse despite years of sponge-city…
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11 August
A sanctioned Russian tanker is poisoning Oman’s newest whale reserve
The Caroline Bezengi grounded near the Hallaniyat Islands in mid-2026, releasing an oil slick now covering up to 800 square kilometres—exposing how Western sanctions redirect crude into aging, uninsured shadow-fleet…
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11 August
Indonesia’s fires are spreading. Cloud seeding cannot stop them.
A Super El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole have stripped the atmosphere of rain-bearing clouds, leaving only water-bombing crews to fight 107,000 hectares already burned across 10 provinces as…
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10 August
China’s worst typhoon this year is only half the disaster
Typhoon Dolphin's 151 km/h winds forced over a million evacuations, but forecasters warn the real threat is 500 mm of rain falling on saturated ground across Zhejiang province through August…
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10 August
China’s strongest storm stalls inland, threatening basin-scale flooding
Typhoon Dolphin made landfall near Yuhuan with 151 km/h winds on August 9, but forecasters warn the real danger is torrential rain that could linger through August 12, raising flood…
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7 August
Indonesia’s fire season is already outpacing 2023 by double
Mount Bromo National Park closed indefinitely after a wildfire burned 127 hectares in steep terrain, but the real alarm is the 107,000 hectares burned nationally in just six months—more than…
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6 August
El Niño’s drought gifts Indonesia’s salt farmers while wildfires rage
Cirebon's July harvest surged to 600 metric tons—a twentyfold jump—as the same dry pattern pushing wildfire hotspots past 5,000 across the archipelago extends the coastal evaporation window.
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6 August
Malaysia’s durian boom is collapsing under its own weight
Prices for premium Musang King fruit have halved in a year as growers race to adapt to heat, flooding, and oversupply that China's market appetite created.
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5 August
Southeast Asia’s rice belt faces its driest months as El Niño strengthens
The ASEAN Meteorological Centre warned on 4 August of below-normal rainfall through October, with an El Niño index of +1.59 that could rank among the strongest in 75 years, threatening…
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5 August
A Super El Niño is arriving on a warmer planet. The worst is still months away.
The World Meteorological Organization projects sea-surface temperature anomalies will exceed 2.9°C above normal by October, amplified by a simultaneous positive Indian Ocean Dipole that reshapes drought and flood risk across…
