If deforestation and forest degradation continue unchecked, at least 27 percent of the undisturbed rainforests in the Congo ...

The most extensive biodiversity survey yet of Nepal’s little-studied Madhesh province has revealed a wealth of wildlife ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

Asian crime syndicates behind the multibillion-dollar cyberscam industry are expanding globally including to Africa and South America, as raids in Southeast Asia fail to contain their activities, the ...

Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira said on April 3 that tariffs could cut growth in Southeast Asia's second-largest ... adding the central bank would smooth out excessive volatility in the ...

Tashkent, Uzbekistan – April 17-18, 2025. A kick-off meeting for the regional project “Stakeholder Engagement for Uranium Legacy Remediation in Central Asia” (Phase III) was held in Tashkent on April ...

Spring 1998 and 1999 were especially bad for wildfires in Florida. A 1999 fire in Port St. Lucie torched 2,400 acres and 43 homes. Wildfire suppression and prevention is headed by the Florida ...

Gulf Cooperation Council foreign ministers and their counterparts from Central Asia discussed in Kuwait on Wednesday consolidating cooperation in several fields. The Third Ministerial Meeting of the ...

A Newsweek map shows at least six countries in the Western ... a key U.S. treaty ally in Northeast Asia that faces repeated threats from nuclear-armed North Korea. It has ordered a total of ...

Concerned about the impact of tariffs on food prices, Olivia Hathaway created a map of local food sources in Virginia. The map includes farms, farmers' markets, community gardens, and other ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed concern over the potential negative impact of U.S. tariffs on Japanese companies operating in Southeast Asia, during phone talks with his ...

But many of the species threatened with extinction in South-east Asia may slip under the radar, compared with more charismatic species. Said Prof Zeng: “Biodiversity conservation efforts tend to ...