Extreme Heat & Health: Japan logged its fifth straight “cruelly hot day” above 40°C, with heatstroke warnings across most prefectures and thousands of emergency visits as officials call the situation a disaster. Cyclones & Disaster Response: Typhoon Noul is driving mass evacuations and suspending rail services in southern China, while Typhoon Kiyapo’s signals were lifted in parts of northern Luzon as it heads toward southern China. Climate Education & Farming: SEARCA’s “climate detectives” youth show is training students across Southeast Asia to investigate climate impacts and climate-smart agriculture. Mangroves & Coastal Resilience: Experts mark International Day for Mangrove Conservation by urging community-led restoration, warning that mangroves protect lives and livelihoods from storms and rising seas. ASEAN Diplomacy: Laos led ASEAN Plus Three, ARF and East Asia Summit foreign ministers’ meetings, with focus on clean energy, climate change, disaster management and regional cooperation. UNESCO Nature Protection: UNESCO added Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp and expanded tidal flats in South Korea to the World Heritage List, highlighting long environmental records and biodiversity. Workplace Heat Risk: A report argues India’s labour rules still lag behind WHO’s framing of extreme heat as an occupational risk needing enforceable protections.