There have been more than 1,000 huge leaks of the potent greenhouse gas methane from landfill waste dumps since 2019, the Guardian can reveal. Analysis…
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Weather tracker: Cyclone Mocha batters Bangladesh and Myanmar
Cyclone Mocha brought strong winds and torrential rain to parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar on Sunday, with refugee camps bearing the brunt of the category-5…
View More Weather tracker: Cyclone Mocha batters Bangladesh and Myanmar‘Every year it gets worse’: on the frontline of the climate crisis in Bangladesh
Ever since she was a little girl, Amina Ahmed has been afraid of the water. Growing up in Sylhet, north-east of Bangladesh, the heavy rainfall…
View More ‘Every year it gets worse’: on the frontline of the climate crisis in Bangladesh‘We faced so many cyclones’: how people in Bangladesh are rebuilding after climate catastrophe
The cyclones that repeatedly hit his village deep in Bangladesh’s south did not just bring waist-high water that washed everything away, they forced Shayma Kanta…
View More ‘We faced so many cyclones’: how people in Bangladesh are rebuilding after climate catastropheClimate-vulnerable countries call for help forcing high emitters to act
Some of the countries most vulnerable to climate breakdown have called on the UN and the UK and other countries who want to lead the…
View More Climate-vulnerable countries call for help forcing high emitters to actLaws of nature: could UK rivers be given the same rights as people?
The River Frome murmurs and babbles through the woods and fields of north Somerset. It is popular with anglers and wild swimmers but is often…
View More Laws of nature: could UK rivers be given the same rights as people?Poacher suspected of killing 70 Bengal tigers captured after 20-year pursuit
Bangladeshi police have arrested a notorious poacher wanted for 20 years and suspected of killing about 70 endangered Bengal tigers. Saidur Rahman, the local police…
View More Poacher suspected of killing 70 Bengal tigers captured after 20-year pursuitAir pollution will lead to mass migration, say experts after landmark ruling
Air pollution does not respect national boundaries and environmental degradation will lead to mass migration in the future, said a leading barrister in the wake…
View More Air pollution will lead to mass migration, say experts after landmark rulingMan saved from deportation after pollution plea in French legal ‘first’
A Bangladeshi man with asthma has avoided deportation from France after his lawyer argued that he risked a severe deterioration in his condition, and possibly…
View More Man saved from deportation after pollution plea in French legal ‘first’