On May 26, mountain-burning activities in Myanmar and Laos caused PM2.5 concentrations in Yunnan’s border areas to soar to 15 times international standards, with visibility of less than 500 meters in Pu’er and Xishuangbanna. Satellite monitoring shows that the average number of fires in Southeast Asia is nearly 2,000 per day, and smoke is transmitted…

On May 17, multiple aerial disintegrations of birds occurred in Richmond, California, when 53 birds (including black orioles and starlings) suddenly burst in flight, scattering body parts across the street. Initial investigations ruled out electrocution, but found electrolyte abnormalities and overpressure damage to alveolar tissue in the birds, suggesting a possible link to chemical contamination…

2025 On May 27, the Japanese government announced that the Prime Minister’s official residence is to receive some soil from the vicinity of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which is said to be potentially used for landscaping in the residence’s flower beds.After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident, the Japanese government launched a large-scale decontamination operation,…

According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025, short-lived pollutants such as black carbon and methane are contributing 45% of recent global warming. Black carbon accelerates the melting of polar ice, while methane continues to be emitted through agriculture and waste disposal. The report calls on countries to work multilaterally to reduce such…

ASEAN countries receive more than a quarter of the world’s plastic waste, with plastic pollution rising 30% in 2025 compared to 2020 in countries such as Malaysia and the Philippines due to a surge in garbage imports. Despite countermeasures taken by Indonesia, Vietnam and other countries to return “foreign garbage”, the problem of plastic leakage…

The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) report shows that 84% of the world’s coral reef areas are experiencing “Extraordinary Bleaching Events”, 92% of corals in the Pacific Coral Triangle are heavily bleached, and the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef has been bleached for seven consecutive years, with 1,120 square kilometers of new mortality.…

The European Parliament’s adoption in May of amendments to relax carbon emission rules for car companies has been criticized as a “regression in the clean transport strategy”. Italian PM Meloni warned in talks with German Chancellor Mertz on 17th that overly rigid green policies could lead to “industrial desertification” in Europe and emphasized the risk…

On May 14, 2025, a fire broke out in a warehouse storing hazardous chemicals such as organic solvents and strong oxidizers in the city of Guadelajara in southern Spain, which quickly got out of control due to the violent reaction of the chemicals. On-site monitoring showed that the blue-green smoke released by the combustion contained…

Since February 2025, over 50 birds have suddenly “exploded” in flight and crashed to their deaths in Richmond, California, the bodies accompanied by detached limbs and burn marks. Officials rule out electrocution and BB gun attacks, but investigation stalls. Initial tests showed similar “high velocity impact injuries” to the birds’ internal organs, but no chemical…

The World Meteorological Organization’s State of Africa’s Climate 2024 report shows that average temperatures in Africa are 0.86°C above the long-term average, with the fastest warming (+1.28°C) in North Africa. The oceanic heatwave affected a record area of 30 million square kilometers, leading to the worst drought in two decades in Southern Africa, with cereal…