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Global warming hits hardest for those who can’t escape it

Award-winning film highlights lasting damage from X-Press Pearl disaster in Sri Lanka

Indonesia’s peatlands face growing flood risks amid widespread degradation

5 takeaways from the 2022 Repsol oil spill in Peru

Africa’s last tropical glaciers are melting away along with local livelihoods

A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods?

Will Brazil’s President Lula wake up to the climate crisis? (commentary)

Indonesia families evicted for Jakarta PIK2 project flooded at relocation site

Brazil has seen a 460% increase in climate-related disasters since the 1990s

Eastern U.S. floods could persist longer toward the end of the century

Coral biodiversity hotspot at risk from fossil fuel expansion, report warns

As 25 Earth vital signs worsen, scientists warn of ‘irreversible climate disaster’

Drought & climate change force Ethiopia pastoralists to go job hunting

In Brazil, half a century of salt mining sinks a city, displacing thousands

Sumatra villages count cost of deadly river tsunami swelled by illegal logging

We need rapid response support for Indigenous peoples in the face of growing extreme weather events (commentary)

‘Another catastrophe’: Flooding destroys Indigenous agroforestry projects in Peru’s Amazon

In climate-related flooding, a Ugandan river turns poisonous

Fears of marine disaster loom after fertilizer-laden ship sinks in Red Sea

Climate change brings a river’s wrath down on western Uganda

Landslide in Philippines mining town kills nearly 100, prompts calls for action

As climate disasters claim their children, Bangladeshi mothers seek safety in bigger families

Risky development in Uttarakhand: Interview with environmentalist Ravi Chopra

Long-term wildlife impacts at Chornobyl, Fukushima may yield ‘a new ecology’

Philippines oil spill may reverberate long after cleanup declared complete

Super flock of pigeons leaves Nepali researchers asking what happened

In Philippines, climate change tests Indigenous farming like never before

Tested by COVID and war, an Indigenous conservation system in Ethiopia prevails

Organic farming, and community spirit, buoy a typhoon-battered Philippine town

‘Alarming’ heat wave threatens Bangladesh’s people and their food supply

After historic storm in New Zealand, Māori leaders call for disaster relief and rights

‘War with weeds’ lacks ecological understanding and empathy (commentary)

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