Views and Points
‘Attribution science puts numbers. It’s important to provide the evidence of what we’re experiencing in climate change’
This sciences follows the numbers, Studies that track the footprint of climate change in extreme weather events shows how global warming “loads the dice” toward more of these events.
Fiery Reminder from El Niño: Indonesia’s Zero-burning Policy Fails Without Reviving Degraded Land
The raging fires in Indonesia, turbocharged by a very strong El Niño episode, show that the government has failed to learn lessons from ineffective policies in managing peat lands and forests over the decades.
Data Box
Disaster Risk, Extreme Weather and Public Perceptions of the Climate Crisis
Our data visualization stories look into key indicators related to the climate crisis, how Southeast Asians view it – and where they get their news about the climate.
A Look at the ICJ’s Orders on Myanmar and Israel
5 FEBRUARY 2024 | REPORTING ASEAN ICJ provisional measures for Myanmar and Israel
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News trust weakens as Southeast Asians lean further into platforms
The Reuters Institute Digital News Report for 2026 finds that in our region, interest in current affairs fell. People are consuming news not just from social media but influencers, news avoidance is picking up among some users – and more.
Trust in news shows steepest fall in the Philippines – report
Only 28% of Filipinos said they trust the news. This is below the global average of 37%, itself the lowest level of trust since the Reuters Institute began tracking this metric in its Digital News Report.
Tools for Journalists
OFF THE PRESS | Reporting the Climate: A (Doable) Tip Sheet
Read this eBook for practical how-tos for integrating coverage of the climate across the newsroom and news beats. The 20-page news tool was written by Reporting ASEAN’s Johanna Son.
News Tool : Reporting on a Stressed Planet: 16 Concepts
This 44-page news tool puts together a list of 16 concepts and terms that a journalist, or any communicator, would find useful for reportage, analysis and further inquiry into today’s most urgent stories – the climate emergency and the sustainability crisis. In English and Khmer.
