Coastlines
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Buoyant, the size of a lentil and almost impossible to recover: how nurdles are polluting the oceans
Millions of the tiny plastic pellets are being washed up on the coast of Kerala in India in the latest in a se…
- Animals, Asia, Coastlines, Conservation, Endangered habitats, Environment, Global development, Marine life, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Travel, Travel and transport, Wildlife, World news
‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians
Volunteers are helping save baby sea turtles as the endangered species’ favourite nesting spots come under pre…
- Animals, Bangladesh, Climate crisis, Coastlines, Conservation, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Environment, Global development, Rivers, Society, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, Women, World news
‘Husband eaters’: the double loss of Bangladesh’s ostracised tiger widows
After the trauma of losing their spouse and breadwinner to the Sundarbans’ great predator, women are cast out …
- Climate crisis, Coastlines, Environment, Extreme weather, Family, Farming, Global development, India, Life and style, Marriage, Migration, Migration and development, Oceans, South and Central Asia, World news
No crops, no brides: how rising seas are killing India’s coastal villages
As the sea inundates Odisha’s coastline, livelihoods have withered with the harvest and weddings are a rarity …
- Asia Pacific, Cambodia, Coastlines, Environment, Global development, Land rights, Travel, Travel and transport, World news
‘Everywhere is broken’: how land grabs in Cambodia are demolishing lives
The government has a ‘masterplan’ for the coastal province of Preah Sihanouk, with tourist meccas built on lan…
- Biodiversity, Biology, Coastlines, Conservation, Coral, Environment, India, Marine life, Mumbai, Oceans, Photography, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
‘Every time the tide recedes, it’s a new world’: Mumbai’s marine life revealed
A group of sea life enthusiasts is documenting a wealth of species thriving in the shadow of India’s most popu…
- Bangladesh, Climate crisis, Coastlines, Environment, Extreme weather, Global development, Poverty, South and Central Asia, Trees and forests, World news
‘We live and die by it’: climate crisis threatens Bangladesh’s Sundarbans
Villagers rely more on the forest’s resources, threatening its ecosystem – and leaving them more vulnerable to…
- Africa, Americas, Bangladesh, Climate crisis, Coastlines, Environment, Flooding, Global development, Mexico, Middle East and North Africa, Natural disasters, Somalia, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Our house was gone, it was sea and sand’: life on the vanishing coasts – in pictures
Coastal communities in Mexico, Bangladesh and Somalia are struggling to adapt to the climate crisis. Many peop…
- Business, Cetaceans, Coastlines, Dolphins, Environment, Fish, Marine life, Oceans, Plastics, Pollution, Shipping industry, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Travel and transport, Water transport, Wildlife, World news
Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of
Billions of these tiny plastic pellets are floating in the ocean, causing as much damage as oil spills, yet th…