Environment
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15 years after Fukushima, Japan prepares to restart the world’s biggest nuclear plant
A return to nuclear power is at the heart of Japan’s energy policy but, in the wake of the 2011 disaster, resi…
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Search for single-tusked elephant after 22 killed in India rampage
Eastern region on high alert as authorities try to track animal tearing through villages in Jharkand after app…
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Indian police raid home of environmental activists over anti-fossil fuel campaign
Satat Sampada founders Harjeet Singh and Jyoti Awasthi say allegations are ‘baseless, biased and misleading’Po…
- Animals, Asia Pacific, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, India, South and Central Asia, Thailand, Wildlife, World news
What makes an elephant abandon her calf – and is it a growing problem?
A helpless baby elephant has won the Thai public’s sympathy but her case has shed light on the pressures facin…
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‘Magical’ galaxy frogs disappear after reports of photographers destroying their habitats
Researcher in Kerala rainforest sounds alarm after being told frogs had died after being handled by humansA gr…
- Animals, Asia Pacific, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Indonesia, Wildlife, World news
Indonesia floods were ‘extinction level’ disturbance for world’s rarest ape
Conservationists fear up to 11% of Tapanuli orangutan population perished in disaster that also killed 1,000 p…
- Asia Pacific, Climate crisis, Environment, Extreme weather, Flooding, Indonesia, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, World news
Global heating and other human activity are making Asia’s floods more lethal
Much improved response systems are struggling to cope with ever more powerful and destructive stormsDeath toll…
- Asia Pacific, Climate crisis, Environment, Extreme weather, Flooding, Indonesia, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, World news
Floods kill at least 1,100 people across south and south-east Asia – video
Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel as they raced to help victims of devastating flooding that…
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‘The current could kill an elephant’: Asia flood survivors describe escaping with their lives
From Thailand to Indonesia, torrential flooding has carried away people’s possessions and homes, upending enti…
- Drought, Environment, Extreme weather, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, US news, World news
Sri Lanka braced for more damage after torrential rain kills hundreds across Asia
Meanwhile, Iran grapples with one of worst droughts and temperatures fall 10C below normal in USMore heavy rai…
- Asia Pacific, Climate crisis, Environment, Extreme weather, Flooding, Indonesia, Malaysia, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, World news
Death toll passes 900 in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka floods
Officials in Indonesia say more than 442 people have died, while Sri Lanka suffers worst natural disaster sinc…
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Sri Lanka’s capital hit by floods as cyclone death toll nears 200
Hundreds of people still missing after heavy rain and mudslides in country’s deadliest natural disaster for ye…
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At least 500 killed in south-east Asia floods and landslides
More than 350 people killed on Indonesia’s Sumatra island with 162 reported dead across ThailandThe death toll…
- Climate crisis, Environment, Extreme weather, Flooding, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, World news
Sri Lanka death toll from floods and landslides reaches 153
Another 191 missing after heavy rains from Cyclone Ditwah while almost 78,000 evacuated to temporary shelters …
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Weather tracker: Snowfall cuts power in Poland and flooding devastates Sri Lanka
Temperatures dip to -8.5C in Poland and 250mm of rain falls in 24-hour period across Sri Lanka Temperatures pl…