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‘Nurdles are everywhere’
By Zinara Rathnayake
COLOMBO - When Adnan Sheikh took his family on holiday to Sri Lanka last October, he booked them into a hotel for two weeks in Sarakkuwa beach, just off the coast from where the X-Press Pearl cargo ship caught fire and…
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A disastrous 2021 and conservation challenges in 2022
By Jayantha Wijesingha
Environmental conservation in Sri Lanka is as challenging as the economy of the country. Environmental degradation is fully supported and carried out with the blessings of corrupt politicians. This has been the case…
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First fires, then floods
By Damien Cave
WEE WAA — Two years ago, the fields outside Christina Southwell’s family home near the cotton capital of Australia looked like a dusty, brown desert as drought-fuelled wildfires burned to the north and south.
Last week,…
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Once a leading polluter, the UK is now trying to lead on climate change
By Mark Landler
LONDON — As Britain begins hosting a landmark climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, the milestones of its own evolution to a more climate-friendly economy are on vivid display along the railroad line from London to Scotland.…
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The future is on the line
By Somini Sengupta
As presidents and prime ministers arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, for a pivotal climate summit, the outcome will determine, to a large extent, how the world’s 7 billion people will survive on a hotter planet and whether…
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Yes, there has been progress on climate, no, it’s not nearly enough
By Brad Plumer
The world’s countries have begun to make meaningful progress in the fight against climate change over the past decade, new data shows, thanks to a rapid expansion of clean energy. Yet the planet is still on track for…
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Protected too late: US officials report more than 20 extinctions
By Catrin Einhorn
The ivory-billed woodpecker, which birders have been seeking in the bayous of Arkansas, is gone forever, according to federal officials. So is the Bachman’s warbler, a yellow-breasted songbird that once migrated between…
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When it comes to food security, climate change is the real challenge for South Asia
By Siraj Hussain and Sarah Khan
While the world’s attention is focused on the formation of a responsible government in Afghanistan, its citizens face a serious food crisis. It is estimated that that about half of the country’s population,…
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The journey back
By Malaka Rodrigo
MANNAR — Born in the frozen Arctic tundra, a population of Heuglin’s gull (Larus fuscus heuglini) heads to tropical Sri Lanka every year during the harsh Northern Hemisphere winter.
On the Indian Ocean island, they…
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A new breed of crisis: war and warming collide in Afghanistan
By Somini Sengupta
KABUL - Parts of Afghanistan have warmed twice as much as the global average. Spring rains have declined, most worryingly in some of the country’s most important farmland. Droughts are more frequent in vast swaths of the…
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