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Best served chilled: green tech keeps the cool on India’s dairy farms – photo essay

Photographer Prashanth Vishwanathan captured a network of community dairies providing a lifeline to off-grid farmers in Maharashtra, helping to keep milk fresh as temperatures rise. All pictures are from Climate VisualsAs global temperatures climb, a l…

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Leaf blowers and beating branches: the fight to stop India’s forest fires

Thousands of blazes in Similipal national park threaten indigenous peoples and wildlife such as tigers, elephants and orchidsAs the flames move fast, snaking quickly upwards in the treacherous terrain of Similipal national park and turning everything o…

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Budget cuts and collapse in tourism revenue pose ‘severe’ threat to nature

Reduced environmental protections and conservation job losses could hit vital progress on climate and biodiversity, research findsAs Maasai herding lands shrink, so does space for Kenya’s elephantsJob cuts in nature reserves and environmental rollbacks…

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China’s five-year plan for economy is crucial to meeting net zero by 2060

Imminent economic blueprint has implications for planet – and whether Paris agreement likely to be metChina is to publish a new blueprint for its economy on Friday, with vast implications for the future of the planet – including whether the goals of th…

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Zoomed to fail? Cracks appear in Pacific Islands Forum as Covid pulls nations apart

Pacific diplomacy hinges on in-person discussion but web-only meetings have fed a growing dispute over the forum’s leadership and purposeIn the Pacific, it is all about the talanoa: the conversation and the consensus.For the 50 years of the Pacific Isl…

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World needs to kick its coal habit to start green recovery, says IEA head

Energy watchdog’s Fatih Birol says shift away from coal in key regions needs to be made a global priorityDependency on coal in key parts of the world is preventing a global green recovery from taking off, and the shift away from coal needs to be made a…

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