Climate Change

In Delhi, the Asia Society Policy Institute President said, “What is very encouraging … is the language which we saw emerge from Prime Minister Modi, during President Obama’s visit, about India wanting to see a global agreement in Paris.”

Jia Zhangke, others document China's environmental woes.

Kevin Rudd sees "new center of gravity" on climate change.

The U.S. and China can mitigate climate change and create economic and social benefits by collaborating to reduce air pollution, writes environmental economist Junjie Zhang.

Documentarian focuses on mountain communities of Gilgit–Baltistan and their symbiotic relationship with their environment.

Strongest storm of 2012 buffets Philippines.

New documentary depicts the women of Bangladesh's Banishanta Island as they navigate their lives in the face of climate change.

Big storms have spurred change in Asia, and could in the U.S. as well.

Bangladesh PM stresses need for urgency.

Nobody on earth can avoid climate change.

Climate change has been reduced to a punch line, but it doesn't have to be that way, says Simran Sethi.

China's largest freshwater lake is drying up.

David Breashears stages photo exhibit 17,723 ft. above sea level.

A view of mangrove shoots planted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and others on Tarawa, an atoll in the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, on September 4, 2011.

In the Asia-Pacific region, large-scale migration continues to be an upwardly trending phenomenon and, sadly, migrant vulnerability and exploitation is glaringly apparent, writes Andrew Billo.