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She was sleeping in when the house started shaking. Then her mum called. This is Isha Remal’s story Location: Bidur, Nepal Disaster: Floods, 2026 Isha Remal is a 17-year-old volunteer for the Red Cross Society in Bidur, Nepal. This summer, her family was caught up in the floods that crashedContinue Reading

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Established in UK cities for decades and much loved for their green plumage, the Himalayan birds have been recast as an ecological threat. But is the idea of invasive species itself a problem? Before we saw a single parakeet, we heard them: a disembodied static that grew louder as weContinue Reading

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Its key temperature goal has been missed but experts say the agreement is still proving a vital moral compass for progress It was a curious way of conducting negotiations. Ahead of the 2025 climate summit, in the Amazonian port of Belém last year, the Brazilian hosts had taken off theContinue Reading

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My mother was a keen swimmer, and she lived with depression. I wonder if she found the same respite in the water that has helped heal me since she passed away It was early morning in late September, off the coast of Kaş in Turkey. Watching the slightly choppy seaContinue Reading

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Dom Phillips warned that Jair Bolsonaro would make life more dangerous for reporters and the Amazon rainforest, and that his sons were even more extreme “Bolso shows all signs of fascism, as do his supporters,” the murdered British journalist Dom Phillips told me before his death. “His sons are allContinue Reading

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These yachts are highly popular with the ‘super-bourgeoisie’ – and getting bigger. Can anything be done to stop them destroying our seas? Who knew? Apparently everyone did, apart from me: you don’t wear shoes on a superyacht. Now, about to step on to my first teak deck at the MonacoContinue Reading

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Inspired by a gothic cathedral partly built using human bones, this gleaming monument to recycling boasts 82,000 bricks derived from construction waste – each made by the public during a two-day brick-making festival Museums often try to reflect the world around them, but rarely are they made so literally ofContinue Reading

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Four years ago nearly every government on Earth agreed to protect nature. Now, as countries gather for Cop17, the pressure is on to follow through on those commitments Cop17 at a glance: everything you need to know about the UN’s nature summit Passersby could smell the dead fish before theyContinue Reading