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Here’s how cities in Asia-Pacific are fighting back the effects of climate change

Urban residents are at the front line of climate-driven hazards, and communities also can provide essential local knowledge to enhance the effectiveness of resources deployed to…

  • Published: April 29, 202411:12 am
  • Author Ann Asianews Network
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Intense heatwave sweeps across Vietnam

The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting predicts that there will be widespread hot and intense heat across the country for at least two more days, until April 30.…

  • Published: April 29, 20248:05 am
  • Author Viet Nam News
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Long summer ahead as rainy season in Thailand delayed by two weeks

Rains are expected around the fourth week of May, with overall rainfall across the country approaching normal levels.

  • Published: April 29, 20248:03 am
  • Author The Nation
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Bangladeshi schools, colleges: A reopening that defies heatwave and logic too

The reopening of educational institutions amid the heatwave was marred by two teachers' deaths and dozens of students becoming sick.

  • Published: April 29, 20248:00 am
  • Author Arafat Rahaman
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Metro Manila brownouts feared amid heat, power supply woes

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said 47 power plants in the country failed and succumbed to “forced outages,” adding that a total of 21 hydroelectric power plants have also stopped…

  • Published: April 26, 202410:05 am
  • Author Charie Abarca
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Climate change blamed for heavy rain in China’s south

The precipitation in South China has exceeded twice the usual amount so far this month, meteorological experts said, while cautioning about the increased risk of flooding and…

  • Published: April 26, 202410:04 am
  • Author Li Menghan
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Climate change to cause 19 percent income drop by 2050, even with CO2 cuts

These damages are six times larger than the mitigation costs needed to limit global warming to two degrees.

  • Published: April 26, 202410:03 am
  • Author The Statesman
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First Covid, now heat: Online schooling returns to the Philippines

The shift raises fears that more extreme weather in the years to come could deepen educational inequalities.

  • Published: April 25, 202410:36 am
  • Author Mariejo S. Ramos
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Thousands pray for rain as Bangladesh sizzles in heatwave

Muslim worshippers gathered in city mosques and rural fields to pray for relief from the scorching heat, which forecasters expect to continue for at least another week.

  • Published: April 25, 202410:23 am
  • Author The Daily Star
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Hong Kong readies for extreme weather as flooding, landslide incidents rise

Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn said the department confirmed 257 reported flooding cases in the last three years—90 in 2021, 17 in 2022, and 150 in 2023.

  • Published: April 25, 202410:00 am
  • Author Wang Zhan

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