In this audio podcast, the Jesuit Refugee Service’s Louie Bacomo describes how climate displacement is happening in Southeast Asia – and why humanitarian work needs to adapt to a warming planet.

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.

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.

The climate is everywhere in a world of disorder. Reporting it needs to be freed from the default angles of disasters, the environment and science.

We keep hearing that the climate connection in Nepal’s catastrophic floods is still being studied. But focusing on the ‘but’ may well undercut the point that the living system that supports us has been destablized – and is causing immense human suffering.

Journalist Kourosh Ziabari talks to Johanna Son about the “off-the-shelf”, “coagulated” stereotypes of his country during the US-Israeli war against Iran.

The Thai-Cambodia conflict is a deep wound, as the regional grouping navigates the world disorder.

Journalists in Southeast Asia need to focus not only on what they report on, but how they contribute to the quality of public discussion – in the age of disinformation. They can be non-Western and professional.

When news managers make climate reporting a policy, it makes a huge difference in how newsrooms cover what is the biggest story of our time.

Does a data visualization draw readers or scare them? Is doing data viz a storytelling skill or a visual one? How does it give a story more legs to stand on?

Gaza’s tragedy is far from just distant news. It is also an invitation for this half-Palestinian professional, living in Southeast Asia, to get to know the Palestinian side of her identity.

Yet another anniversary of 2021 coup provides the setting for this conversation about Myanmar’s crises, changes in the global context – and areas of hope.

The media need to be useful in our search to fix a broken climate, says Kunda Dixit, author of ‘Dateline Earth: Journalism As If the Planet Mattered’. Reporting Asean’s Johanna Son speaks to him soon after the release of the book’s third edition.

Haze has been a chronic problem for Southeast Asia over nearly three decades. Reporting ASEAN talks to Dr Helena Varkkey about how the conversation around haze, and fires that cause them, is changing and the challenges to ASEAN’s management of a touchy issue.

In this podcast, two Filipino scientists say that more data are needed to make conclusions about changes in their number and frequency – but that more intense events are making up a bigger percentage of these typhoons.

The passing of Amando Doronila, one of the Philippines’ most respected journalists and former chief editor of the ‘Manila Chronicle’, brings back the journalistic lessons I learned from him. Among them – let your story speak for itself, and keep writing.

Complicated histories and relations among Myanmar’s diverse ethnic communities make the goal of a federal union a daunting one. But possibilities emerge from a new governance forum set up in line with this federal future in Sagaing, the heartland of resistance by the Bamar ethnic majority – and a region that used to be free of conflicts that ethnic regions have been living with.

The Mekong Dam Monitor provides documented data that describes how dam operations – China has the largest ones – are disrupting the healthy balance and unique character of the Mekong river system. Climate change introduces more uncertainty into the equation.

A journalism major shares how her and her colleagues’ internship allowed them to look beyond many of their worries about losing out on learning during COVID-19.

It has been 20 years since Myanmar’s intelligence agents detained the writer, who was a university student at the time. Yet far too little has really changed in Burma since then.