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Flooding From What Officials Called 'Not Ordinary Rain' Kills Dozens and Displaces Thousands in Jakarta

Indonesian children wade in their flooded neighborhood

'Biggest Animal Disease Outbreak We've Ever Had on the Planet': Swine Fever Spreads Like Wildfire Across Asia

Julia Conley, staff writer

"We have no way to stop it from spreading."

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'The Climate Crisis You Haven't Heard Of': Even if Carbon Emissions Fall, a Third of Himalayan Ice to Melt by 2100

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Mount Everest

"Global warming is on track to transform the frigid, glacier-covered mountain...

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Fueled by Floods, Storms, and Drought Made Worse by Climate Crisis, Global Hunger Levels Rise for Third Straight Year

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The inescapable fact is that climate change is now leaving people around the...

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#BanTrump: On Both Sides of Pacific, Protests Over Trump's Visit to Philippines

Vice President Mike Pence spoke from the demilitarized zone on the Korean peninsula on Monday.

After Surprise Visit to DMZ, Pence Tells North Korea 'All Options Are on the Table'

China Rejects Hague's South China Sea Ruling as "US-Led Conspiracy"

Gripped by Climate Disruption, World on Brink of Global Water Crisis

US Draws Ire with Dispatch of 'Small Armada' into South China Sea

Push for Controversial Trade Deal Continues With Pitch From Defense Secretary

Climate Change Doubles Probability of Freezing Winters in Eurasia: Study

Newswire

Oil Change International

Oil Change International Response to Trump’s Gutting of NEPA

Friends of the Earth

Scottish Government Urged To Act On Climate Emergency

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Uzbekistan: Massacre's Abusive Aftermath...

Views

Barcelona Research Group on Informal Recyclers

The World’s Waste-Pickers Under Threat

Brett Wilkins

Blood On Whose Hands?

Joseph Gerson

The Uncertain and Dangerous Interregnum: World Peace and the Post-Cold War Era

Conn Hallinan

The World Needs a Water Treaty

Dilip Hiro

India, Pakistan, and a Planet in Peril

Jim Naureckas

Thomas Friedman’s Crazy Poor Economics

Brett Fleishman

HSBC Divests From New Coal Projects Everywhere... Except Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Vietnam

John Feffer

Trump’s New Blame Game

Eugene Robinson

The Clown Goes Abroad

John Feffer

If Asia Leads on Climate, the World Will Follow