1 Gorongosa, Mozambique Mozambique’s civil war (1977-1992) and the poaching connected to it decimated wildlife in Gorongosa national park. Since 2006, the Gorongosa restoration project…
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‘It seems this heat will take our lives’: Pakistan city fearful after hitting 51C
Muhammad Akbar, 40, sells dried chickpeas on a wheelbarrow in Jacobabad, and has suffered heatstroke three times in his life. But now, he says, the…
View More ‘It seems this heat will take our lives’: Pakistan city fearful after hitting 51C‘It’s a hellfire!’: how are India and Pakistan coping with extreme heat?
India and Pakistan have experienced their hottest April in 122 years. Temperatures are nearing 50C. Such extreme heat dries up water reservoirs, melts glaciers and…
View More ‘It’s a hellfire!’: how are India and Pakistan coping with extreme heat?‘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 catastropheNurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of
When the X-Press Pearl container ship caught fire and sank in the Indian Ocean in May, Sri Lanka was terrified that the vessel’s 350 tonnes…
View More Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard ofClimate-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 actPoacher 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 pursuitSri Lanka faces disaster as burning ship spills chemicals on beaches
Sri Lanka is facing the worst environmental disaster in its history after a cargo ship carrying chemicals caught fire off its coast, spilling microplastics across…
View More Sri Lanka faces disaster as burning ship spills chemicals on beachesGlacial lakes threaten millions with flooding as planet heats up
An increasing number of people are being threatened by flooding caused by glacial lakes bursting, scientists have warned. As the planet warms and glaciers recede,…
View More Glacial lakes threaten millions with flooding as planet heats up‘Aphrodisiac’ of the ocean: how sea cucumbers became gold for organised crime
It’s after sunset in Jaffna when Anthony Vigrado dives into the waters of Palk Bay, scanning the seafloor to collect what seems to be prized…
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