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Photographer Gideon Mendel visited Sindh province in Pakistan after the worst floods in living memory this summer killed more than 1,500 people and left millions homeless.The portraits, part of his Drowning World project, are a powerful reminder of the…
Read MoreShehbaz Sharif says he wants ‘climate justice’ from rich polluting countries after monsoons put a third of his country under waterShehbaz Sharif, the prime minister, has said Pakistan should not be forced to go out with a “begging bowl” to rich polluti…
Read MoreWith rising seas expected to submerge the nation by 2100, official says ‘we should always be able to remember Tuvalu as it is, before it disappears’Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastWhen Tuvalu vanishes beneath rising s…
Read MoreA despairing handwring of a film shows the effects of environmental crisis on India’s capital – with images as nightmarish as sci-fiEnvironmental doom is coming: as the planet heats up, it’s all going to get much worse. Nothing new there – but, terrify…
Read MoreDevastating conditions were triggered by heavy monsoon rains that have so far killed more than 1,500 peopleAll four of Haliman’s daughters have fallen sick after she left her flood-ravaged house in her village in Qambar Shahdadkot district in the Sindh…
Read MorePakistan continues to pay in loss and damages for the carbon emissions of others. This must change• Sherry Rehman is Pakistan’s climate change ministerThe climate crisis has accelerated at pace. When temperatures crossed 53C in Pakistan, the summer of …
Read MoreChina has pledged to make its Belt and Road initiative greener, but critics say environmental guidelines ‘nonexistent’In July 2019, China rolled out the red carpet for the Bangladeshi prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. Flown to Beijing by the Chinese gover…
Read MoreMore than 7 million people urged to take refuge as Typhoon Nanmadol hits south-west of country with 150mph windsTyphoon Nanmadol made landfall in south-western Japan on Sunday night, with authorities urging millions of people to take shelter from the p…
Read MoreAfter record temperatures and drought, swaths of the country lie submerged, symptoms of a climate crisis its people play little part inFarmer Ali Baksh stands on an embankment and points across the flooded landscape of Sindh province towards the spot w…
Read MoreClimate change named as major driver, with up to $14bn in infrastructure at risk from higher sea levelsSea levels around New Zealand rose twice as fast in the past 60 years as they did in the first half of last century, with climate change flagged as t…
Read MoreStudy says climate crisis likely to have significantly increased rainfall and made future floods more likelyThe intense rainfall that has caused devastating floods across Pakistan was made worse by global heating, which has also made future floods more…
Read MoreAntónio Guterres calls for ‘massive financial support’ in wake of disaster that has killed at least 1,391 peopleThe United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, has visited several areas of Pakistan ravaged by floods, as he rounded off a two-day…
Read MoreCountries most responsible for climate crisis must ‘end war with nature’, says António GuterresThe UN secretary-general, António Guterres, has said the world owes impoverished Pakistan “massive” help in recovering from the summer’s devastating floods b…
Read MoreThe recent flooding is a direct result of a climate crisis fuelled by the global north. We must accept the blame and pay up, says Christopher Tanner Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar’s article (Rich countries caused Pakistan’s catastrophic flooding. Their response…
Read MoreKohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into EnglishThe climate crisis will spiral out of control unless the world applies “emergency brakes” to capitalism and devises a…
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