Climate

“I still thank my stars for that text,” Reddy says. “Had it been in English or if there was no alarm-like buzz, I wouldn’t have read it.”

Environmental scientist Debra Roberts on overshoot, adaptation, nuclear energy, and having reasonable expectations of climate action .

Inadequate recycling facilities mean that e-waste handling falls to Manila’s informal sector, exposing entire communities to toxins and serious health problems.

Across several states, a quiet chemical industry campaign is making it harder to hold polluters accountable.

Scientists are piecing together the factors that led to the disaster, which has also exposed gaps in cross-border information sharing on hazards in the rapidly changing Himalayas.

Bangladesh fashion retailer Aarong is charging for paper bags and using the proceeds for environmental projects. Its experiment offers clues about whether small interventions can change consumer behaviour.

“Worst of all is that the floods have forced people to lose their traditions and ancestral lands. I think nature is reclaiming its lost glory.”

Indigenous communities say burial sites are being disturbed by the EACOP project in Uganda and Tanzania, and compensation is not adequate to move graves.

“That’s what I hope I can do, even though I’m just an ordinary person. If one day my grandchildren ask me what I did for nature, at least I have an answer: I fought for your future.”

AllatRa, a “religious cult” founded in Ukraine and now headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, has spread climate misinformation from parliaments and TikTok to COP summits, including the false claim that greenhouse gases are not the primary driver of the climate crisis.