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Hot Weather Hurts Asian Crops as Powerful El Nino Takes Shape [1]

“Dry weather is disrupting crop planting across Asia, raising concerns about food supplies in the world's most populous region, and an expected severe El Nino weather pattern could inflict more damage.”

Agriculture [2]
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Health [5]
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International [8]
Asia [9]
Source: Reuters [10], 06/09/2026
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China's New Carbon Metrics 'Erased Half' Of Emissions Growth: Report [11]

"China's latest carbon data suggests it has changed the way it calculates carbon emissions, reducing by half the emissions growth the country previously reported from 2020 to 2025, climate researchers argue in a new report."

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Energy & Fuel [12]
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Technology [14]
Public [7]
International [8]
Asia [9]
Source: Reuters [15], 05/28/2026
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India Records Over 300 Suspected Heatstroke Cases As Temperatures Spike [16]

"More than 300 suspected cases of heat-related illnesses have been reported in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh from ​the start of March to mid-May, the state's health department ‌said."

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Asia [9]
Europe [19]
Source: Reuters [20], 05/27/2026
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"Europe’s Green-Energy Future Has a Problem: Reindeer" [21]

"In northern Norway, Sami people fear a copper mine will disrupt their traditional lifestyles."

"Each summer, Nils Mikkelsen Utsi guides his reindeer to highland pastures overlooking a fjord, known to locals as Repparfjord, in northern Norway. There, under the Arctic midnight sun, female reindeer give birth and Mr. Utsi marks the ears of the calves. His ancestors have done this for generations.

“This is my reindeer district,” he said. “This is my life.”

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Chemicals [23]
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [25]
People & Population [6]
Technology [14]
Wildlife [26]
Public [7]
International [8]
Antarctica & Arctic [27]
Asia [9]
Europe [19]
Source: New York Times [28], 05/21/2026
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"China Widens Its Clean Energy Lead" [29]

"While Chinese companies continue to expand their dominance of clean energy industries, the data shows, their American counterparts are withdrawing from those sectors."

Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Environmental Politics [31]
Infrastructure [32]
Technology [14]
Transportation [33]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [34]
International [8]
Asia [9]
Source: Inside Climate News [35], 05/15/2026
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Trump Pledged To Free Jimmy Lai. Lawmakers Want Action At China Summit. [36]

"Ahead of President Donald Trump’s trip to China next week, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers — including about two-thirds of the Senate — is urging him to seek the release of publisher Jimmy Lai, an ardent critic of the Chinese Communist Party who has been imprisoned in Hong Kong since 2020."

Activism [37]
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Public [7]
National (U.S.) [34]
Asia [9]
Source: Washington Post [39], 05/08/2026
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In Subzero Temperatures, Protecting a Tiger in the Snow [40]

The population of Siberian tigers, the second-largest subspecies in the world, took a turn for the worse after the fall of the Soviet Union. But an international team of biologists in remote Russia has been working to try to save the big cats. “Tigers Between Empires” traces that effort, in a new BookShelf review from contributing editor Jennifer Weeks.

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Asia’s Longest Free-Flowing River Polluted By Arsenic From Myanmar Mines [43]

"Independent testing of the Salween River began in September 2025 after researchers found alarming levels of toxic contaminants in the nearby Kok, Sai and Ruak rivers in Thailand, much of it linked to unregulated mining in Myanmar."

Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [18]
Fish & Fisheries [44]
Natural Resources [25]
Pollution [13]
Waste [45]
Water & Oceans [46]
Public [7]
Asia [9]
Source: Mongabay [47], 04/21/2026
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"Afghanistan’s Capital Is In The Grip Of A Water Crisis" [48]

"The woman was furious. Standing in the muddy lane sloping up the hill in one of the Afghan capital’s poorer neighborhoods, she pulled her headscarf aside to reveal thick grey-white hair. “You see this hair? Even I with my white hair, I have to carry water,” said Marofa, 52, a resident of Kabul’s Deh Mazang neighborhood who, like many Afghans, goes by one name."

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Disasters [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Infrastructure [32]
People & Population [6]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [46]
Public [7]
Asia [9]
Source: AP [49], 04/15/2026
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"From Digging Coal To Selling Noodles? China’s Mining Workers Face Change" [50]

"Yang Haiming didn’t stop working when he retired from the coal mines at age 60. Instead, he jumped into a new industry."

Climate Change [3]
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Energy & Fuel [12]
Food [4]
People & Population [6]
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Asia [9]
Source: AP [51], 04/09/2026
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