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Ecologists say some bodies of water may already have passed the tipping points from which they may never recoverAs David Klee nosed his boat out into the channels of Whangamarino, he saw the birds were dying. Hundreds were already dead, floating, the s…
Read MoreA luxury cruise has been hailed as the start of a new age of Indian tourism. But conservationists fear the impact of increased river traffic and pollution The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has officially launched the “world’s longest river crui…
Read MoreIndian campaigners join global delegation representing one billion children affected by climate crisis• Cop27 live – latest news updates“Nobody else will jump into the fire to save a child besides a mother,” says Bhavreen Kandhari, the co-founder of Wa…
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 MoreHeavy rain compounds decades-long environmental catastrophe at country’s largest freshwater lakeMaula Bakhsh Mala’s village was submerged by Lake Manchar for the third time last week. “What bad luck we have,” said the 68-year-old fisher. “When there is…
Read MoreToxic metal present in both blood and eggshell samples, but the New Zealand birds appear to have formed a tolerance for itLead has been detected in nesting native kākā chicks in Wellington, but unusually, the birds look to have developed a tolerance to…
Read MorePower stations face coal shortages while burning landfill chokes residents in New DelhiMillions sweltered in a dangerous early summer heatwave across India and Pakistan that has led to power and water shortages as annual furnace-like temperatures hit S…
Read MoreBreak into male-dominated public-transport helps tackle city’s pollution crisis and safety concernsMonika Devi is thrilled to be driving her autorickshaw. The 35-year-old has two reasons to be particularly proud as she winds her way through New Delhi’s…
Read MoreBlaze at 65-metre high ‘mountain of shame’ in Ghazipur still not completely put outParts of a fire that broke out on Monday at a gigantic landfill site on the outskirts of Delhi known as the “mountain of shame” were still smouldering 24 hours later, ch…
Read MoreSri Lankan beaches buried in pellets only ‘tip of the iceberg’ of environmental harm after analysis of nurdles from burning shipContainer ship accidents at sea should be considered the “oil spills of our time”, warned environmental organisations that f…
Read MoreThe country’s golden beaches have turned black as debris released from a sunken ship continues to wreak environmental and economic havocWhen Adnan Sheikh took his family on holiday to Sri Lanka last October, he booked them into a hotel for two weeks in…
Read MoreHere are 20 articles that may have helped convince people to support the Guardian’s journalismThe Guardian benefited from hundreds of thousands of acts of support from digital readers in 2021 – almost one for every minute of the year. Here we look at t…
Read MoreBillions of these tiny plastic pellets are floating in the ocean, causing as much damage as oil spills, yet they are still not classified as hazardousWhen the X-Press Pearl container ship caught fire and sank in the Indian Ocean in May, Sri Lanka was t…
Read MoreThick smog envelops Indian capital with pollution levels 20 times higher than deemed healthy by WHOIndia’s capital, Delhi, and several surrounding states have shut schools, imposed work-from-home orders and a full weekend lockdown of the city is bei…
Read MoreThe Navotas mudflats are among the last of their kind and act as a crucial feeding ground for migratory birds, but they are being buried in plasticThere are stray, abandoned flip flops, old foil food wrappers, crumpled plastic bags, and discarded water…
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