Asia braces for more extreme weather like 2023, world's hottest year

TOKYO -- Countries across Asia are on guard for more severe heat and rain as experts highlight the region's disaster-prone and fast-warming characteristics along with a "cocktail" of health hazards looming over workers in the face of climate change.

After 2023 became the world's hottest year on record and Asia faced "phenomenal" levels of heat waves and humidity, "I'd expect to see similarly intense heat waves to last year ... and also typhoons," said Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, professor of climate science at Australian National University (ANU).