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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 -22 July
Afghanistan’s monsoon floods kill 23, leave 100 missing across South Asia
Flash floods in Nuristan province on July 21 killed at least 23 people and left over 100 missing, part of a regional monsoon system that has claimed at least 25…
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19 July
Vietnam’s saturated slopes collapse as climate rain intensifies
Four deaths and 238 hectares of destroyed crops in Lai Chau province expose how human-driven warming is overwhelming mountain communities faster than infrastructure can adapt.
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18 July
Western AI demand is forcing Malaysia to burn more coal
Data-centre electricity demand could surge sevenfold by 2035, but grid upgrades and renewable buildout cannot keep pace, leaving coal as the fastest available power source.
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15 July
Southeast Asia is building nuclear reactors for AI data centres
Vietnam's prime minister met a Swedish SMR developer in 2025, signalling a historic shift: governments are now treating nuclear not as national baseload but as dedicated infrastructure for hyperscale computing…
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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.
