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Chinese icebreaker Xuelong sails in the antarctic fog. Photo: State Oceanic Administration

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China obtains important data on antarctic climate change

by Asia Times staff March 21, 2018February 18, 2020

A polar bear managed to get on one of the last ice floes floating in the Arctic sea. Due to global warming the natural environment of the polar bear in the Arctic has changed a lot. The Arctic sea has much less ice than it had some years ago. (This images is a photoshop design. Polarbear, ice floe, ocean and sky are real, they were just not together in the way they are now). Photo: iStock

China, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Shanghai, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

A matter of survival: urgent call for maritime action

by Raja Murthy March 21, 2018March 21, 2018

Photo: Reuters/China Daily

AIIB’s pipeline project touts return of ‘Beijing Blue’

by Asia Times staff March 20, 2018February 18, 2020

Representational image: The Indian Express

India, South Asia, World

India’s war on science

by Shashi Tharoor February 20, 2018

Lawrence Krauss, a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, talks about their decision to move the 'Doomsday Clock' hands to two minutes until midnight after a news conference in Washington, DC, on January 25, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Leah Millis

France, Middle East, Russia, United Kingdom, World

The Age of the Donald: A triumph of ignorance over evidence

by David Simmons February 11, 2018

A coal worker walks next to wagons amid smog in Huaibei, Anhui province, China, on January 29, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Stringer / File Photo

Beijing, China, India, New Zealand, Oceania, South Asia, World

Amid scant reportage, weather extremes wreak havoc

by Asia Times and Reuters February 3, 2018February 18, 2020

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi shake hands ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on January 25, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Adnan Abidi

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Modi resets India’s foreign-policy priorities

by M.K. Bhadrakumar January 26, 2018February 18, 2020

A woman in China protects herself against air pollution. Photo: iStock / Getty

Beijing, China, India, Japan, Northeast Asia, Shanghai, South Asia, World

Why China wants to dominate green energy

by Chris G. Pope January 21, 2018February 18, 2020

Retired Admiral James Stavridis is escorted by Donald Trump's secretary, Madeleine Westerhout, as he arrives at Trump Tower in New York on December 8, 2016. Photo: AFP / Dominick Reuter

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Climate change may well be an ‘enemy.’ But a military one?

by Grant Newsham January 16, 2018

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 4, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Fred Dufour / Pool

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Canada’s foreign policy annus horribilis

by Danny Lam December 29, 2017

Commuters walk through flooded street after high tide hit Muara Baru area in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 6, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Beawiharta

AT Finance, Indonesia, World

Sense of dread creeping in as Jakarta falls into the sea

by Asia Times staff December 22, 2017February 18, 2020

Boys play football in a public park on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, November 2, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi

China, India, Middle East, South Asia, World

Religious traditions play role in India’s pollution problem

by Jeremy Luedi December 12, 2017

Photo: iStock

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Kyoto accord 20 years on: hard won but inadequate

by Daniel Hurst December 10, 2017February 18, 2020

Indian residents and motorists gather on a flyover as others wade through floodwaters in Chennai on December 3, 2015. Photo: AFP / Strdel

European Union, India, South Asia, World

Government inactive as Chennai faces climate catastrophe

by Sibi Arasu @sibi123 December 7, 2017February 18, 2020

AT Finance, Japan, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Vietnam, World

Disaster prevention collaboration needed across Asia, report says

by Daniel Hurst November 20, 2017February 18, 2020

Pollution from Chinese plants. Photo: iStock

Beijing, China, Shanghai, Tianjin

China may exceed greenhouse gas target by 2020

by Asia Times staff November 1, 2017February 18, 2020

Representational image: iStock

AT Finance, Australia, China, European Union, Germany, India, Iran, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, World

Why globalization is needed more than ever

by Ken Moak October 22, 2017October 22, 2017

A disaster management officer walks towards a brush fire as other firefighters attempt to extinguish it near Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia September 21, 2017 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Nova Wahyudi via Reuters

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Disaster-prone Asia vulnerable to rising risks

by Alan Boyd October 21, 2017February 18, 2020

Representational image: Flickr Commons

European Union, Germany, Japan, Northeast Asia, World

Climate change: Why don’t cooler heads prevail?

by Yongfu Huang October 15, 2017October 15, 2017

Hurricane Irma drives toward Florida past the eastern end of Cuba in this NASA satellite image taken on September 8, 2017. Photo: NOAA National Weather Service National Hurricane Center / via Reuters

Germany, India, South Asia, World

Dinner parties and climate change: a guide

by Tilak Doshi October 10, 2017October 10, 2017

Engineers fix wires to solar panels at the Roha Dyechem solar plant at Bhadla, some 225 kilometers north of Jodhpur in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. Photo: AFP / Money Sharma

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India and US riven on climate but partners in clean energy tech

by Raksha Kumar October 7, 2017February 18, 2020

The universe as we know it. Photo: iStock

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Middle East, Myanmar, South Asia, World

Alternative facts in an inside-out universe

by David Simmons September 21, 2017

Photo: Reuters / Carlos Barria

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As North Korea threat looms, Trump to address world leaders at UN

by Reuters September 18, 2017February 18, 2020

Vietnamese display placards reading "Give back the clean ocean to us" as they demonstrate outside the Formosa Plastics Corporation headquarters on August 10, 2016.Photo: AFP/ Sam Yeh

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Green resistance mounts in communist Vietnam

by David Hutt September 10, 2017February 18, 2020

A Vietnamese couple hawks coal bricks in downtown Hanoi in a file photo. Vietnam plans to expand its use of coal for its fast rising energy needs. Photo: AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam

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Energy dilemma weighs on Vietnam

by Dan Southerland August 21, 2017February 18, 2020

Motorists stuck in traffic at one of Jakarta's main roads. The largest infrastructure spending program in the Indonesian capital's history is expected to help but not solve massive traffic jams. Photo: Getty Images

The world’s healthiest future is urban, dense and green

by Tom Matte August 10, 2017

A Hindu devotee carries water from the River Ganges in Kolkata on April 10, 2017. Photo: Reuters

India, Israel, Middle East, South Asia, World

Radical thinking needed if India is to avoid water collapse

by Seema Sengupta July 22, 2017February 18, 2020

Larsen Ice Shelf in Anarctica. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Maldives, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Huge ice shelf calving revives global warming debate

by Amrita Mukherjee July 15, 2017July 19, 2017

Boeing 747 aircraft sit in flood waters at Bangkok's domestic Don Muang airport in 2011. REUTERS / Sukree Sukplang

Japan, Northeast Asia

ADB: Asia-Pacific ‘at the heart’ of climate risks

by Asia Unhedged July 14, 2017February 18, 2020

Green roof of City Hall in Chicago, Illinois. Installing green roofs is one of the adaptation measures that cities can use to lower local temperatures and hence the economic impacts of climate change. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Urban heat island effect could more than double climate costs for cities

by Mike Gaworecki June 18, 2017February 18, 2020

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