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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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Jul- 2026 -13 July
Nepal’s deadliest elephant killed again despite a decade-old kill order
Dhurbe has murdered 25 people since 2009, including two family members on July 4 despite wearing a satellite collar that transmits his location hourly to park authorities who never acted.
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12 July
A super El Niño and Iran war could break global food prices until 2028
NOAA assigns a 63% probability that sea-surface temperatures will exceed 2°C above normal by late 2026, colliding with an Iran-war food shock that has already pushed the FAO Food Price…
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12 July
Bangladesh abandons big nuclear for smaller, faster reactors
The $12.65 billion Rooppur plant nears operation while the government already pivots to Western small modular reactors, signaling both financial strain and a bid to reduce Russian vendor dependence.
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11 July
Bangladesh’s mapped disaster keeps claiming the same lives
Monsoon floods and landslides killed 44 people this week, with 930,000 Rohingya refugees stranded on deforested slopes that aid agencies warned about for years.
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6 July
A super typhoon is about to hit US islands still rebuilding
Super Typhoon Bavi, with 280 km/h winds, is forecast to strike Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands Monday, threatening 210,000 residents still recovering from two previous typhoons that struck within…
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Jun- 2026 -30 June
Southeast Asia traded oil dependence for Chinese solar panels
The Philippines imported 4,000 megawatts of Chinese modules in four months after the Strait of Hormuz closure, making it Beijing's second-largest solar customer worldwide.
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29 June
Philippines became solar’s top buyer by accident, not ambition
A median household now spends 12% of income on electricity, forcing families to buy Chinese panels to escape volatile grid prices set by global fuel markets.
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29 June
Asia’s harvest is about to fail on a warmer planet
The FAO warns a strong El Niño arriving within weeks will cut staple-crop yields across South and Southeast Asia, threatening 8.8 million people in 22 countries even as adaptation money…
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26 June
China’s recovering elephant herds are walking into farmland. Drones see them coming.
Thermal cameras mounted on hourly drone flights detected a 17-elephant herd 95% of the time near midnight, offering a tested method for anticipating conflict as Yunnan's population doubled since the…
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26 June
The Philippines is building renewable power on Chinese supply chains
With 98% of solar imports from China and residential rates at $0.22 per kilowatt-hour, Manila is trading fuel dependence for manufacturing dependence.
