In total, Southeast Asia contributes about a third of global carbon emissions due to land-use changes, with most originating from the loss of tropical peat swamp forests and mangroves. Community ...

Asia reaches as far south as just below the Equator, where the climate is tropical: hot and wet. In northern areas of Asia such as northern Russia and the Arctic Circle, the climate is colder and ...

Mangroves can store up to five times as much carbon as tropical forests ... about 40 per cent of peat swamp forests in South-east Asia in 2000 were lost. By 2017, the annual rate of loss of ...

Typhoon Rai (also known locally as “Odette”) was a tropical storm that affected the Philippines in December 2021. The Philippines is a lower-middle income country in Southeast Asia.