Hong Kong’s Labour Department will revamp the city’s heat stress warning system, its chief has said, after a former weather official called the mechanism “decorative” for issuing only the lowest alert during record-breaking heat. A heatwave in Hong Kong. File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Commissioner for Labour Sam Hui said on Tuesday that his department will…
Five elderly people have suffered non-life-threatening injuries, with three falling due to the wind in Japan. Published On 8 Aug 20268 Aug 2026 Typhoon Dolphin has hit Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, injuring five people and cutting power to 14,000 buildings, and is heading towards eastern China, where authorities have shut down ports, schools and…
A new UN study has named Hong Kong’s data centres as some of the most carbon-intensive in the world, blaming the city’s heavy dependence on a fossil-fuel-powered energy grid. A government data centre in Cheung Sha Wan. Photo: Googlemaps. The report, titled “Environmental Cost of AI’s Energy Use,” examined the global carbon, land and water…
Hong Kong International Airport is among the top polluting hubs in the world, a UK thinktank has found. Travellers in the Hong Kong International Airport. Photo: GovHK. On Wednesday, new data from global affairs thinktank ODI Global ranked Hong Kong’s airport as the world’s sixth most polluting in terms of flight CO2 emissions, and second…
Published On 4 Nov 20254 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Residents have sought refuge on rooftops, and cars have floated through flooded streets as Typhoon Kalmaegi has battered the central Philippines, killing at least two people. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced by the powerful storm, which made landfall…
Updated on: Oct 22, 2025 08:35 am IST The country is heating up at four times the rate of the rest of the northern hemisphere, and glaciers have been collapsing fast too. For the first time, mosquitoes have been found in Iceland, signalling yet another inevitable consequence of climate crisis, the Guardian has reported. Representational…
Members of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have voted to postpone approving a plan to curb shipping emissions, after United States President Donald Trump threatened to impose sanctions on countries that supported the measure. The vote on Friday set back plans to regulate the shipping industry’s contributions to climate change by at least 12 months,…
China is outpacing the United States in the global race to dominate energy exports, as demand for clean technology surges and fossil fuel revenues plateau. The country exported $120bn in green technology through July 2025, surpassing the $80bn in US oil and gas exports over the same period, Bloomberg reported on October 12. With the…
Rescued trekkers reach China’s Qudang township while 200 others still face treacherous Everest conditions awaiting help. Published On 6 Oct 20256 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Rescuers have guided more than 350 people to safety after they were stranded by blizzard-like conditions on the Tibetan side of Mount Everest,…
Tropical Cyclone Matmo is set to move across the Philippines on Friday and come within 800 kilometres of Hong Kong this weekend, the Observatory has said. The T1 storm signal may be issued on Friday evening, while higher warning signals will be considered on Saturday, according to the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO). Tropical Storm Matmo…