Stories the international news cycle missed, or undercovered, or moved past too quickly. The ones that deserved more attention than they got.
Typhoon Sinlaku reached 215 km/h sustained winds and 905 hPa central pressure earlier this year — a super typhoon by every meaningful measure. Coverage in Western media: essentially none.
84 percent of the world’s coral reef area has experienced bleaching-level heat stress since January 2023. The event is ongoing. It has displaced almost no headlines from politics. It is the largest ecological event in living memory.
Pakistan brokered the US-Iran ceasefire in April. The story being told is about Tehran and Washington. The story being missed is about Islamabad’s emergence as the diplomatic axis through which the Middle East now negotiates.