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Burning world’s fossil fuel reserves could emit 3.5tn tons of greenhouse gas
The world will have released more planet-heating emissions than have occurred since the industrial revolution, analysis found
Oliver Milman
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Weather tracker: monsoon rains sweep India and Pakistan
Further heavy rainfall forecast after deadly lightning strikes and flooding last week
Nicholas Lee for MetDesk
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Fans, sprinklers and cold baths for cows: India’s dairy farmers face searing heat
Milk and cheese output from world’s largest producer faces catastrophic decline unless more heat stress resistant cattle are bred
Charu Sudan Kasturi in Bengaluru
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Kangaroos in the street and a suitcase of iguanas: India’s exotic pet problem
Abandoned marsupials and other trafficked species reveal the country’s growing illegal trade, driven by a desire for exclusive and costly status symbols
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Deadly Indian heatwave made 30 times more likely by climate crisis
Soaring temperatures in subcontinent, which have caused widespread suffering, would be extraordinarily rare without global heating
Damian Carrington Environment editor
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Climate crisis makes extreme Indian heatwaves 100 times more likely – study
Latest analysis adds to evidence that the impacts of global heating are already damaging many lives around the world
Damian Carrington Environment editor
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Revealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown
Exclusive: Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns
Damian Carrington Matthew Taylor
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From India’s highs to Thailand’s lows, Asia’s weather is hitting extremes
Analysis: As the heatwave in India and Pakistan starts to intensify again, Thailand and China are recording strangely cold May days
Matt Andrews (Metdesk)
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‘The tuber man of Kerala’ on a quest to champion India’s rare and indigenous crops
Shaji NM has devoted his life to collecting and farming tubers such as yam, cassava and taro, and promoting them across the country
Monika Mondal
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Wolverine fish and blind eel among 212 new freshwater species
Report from Shoal on 2021’s newly described species shows ‘there are still hundreds and hundreds more freshwater fish scientists don’t know about yet’
Graeme Green
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Indian mystic Sadhguru on 100-day motorbike mission to save soil
Yoga guru will visit dozens of countries en route from London to India to highlight threat to one of nature’s greatest resources
Anna Turns
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‘Women of the wild’: the platform giving India’s nature experts a voice
Frustrated by a lack of female representation, film-maker Akanksha Sood Singh set up an Instagram account to showcase ‘the untold stories of women working for science and nature’
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues
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Only 6% of G20 pandemic recovery spending ‘green’, analysis finds
Analysis of the G20 fiscal stimulus spending counters many countries pledges to ‘build back better’
Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent
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‘Every time the tide recedes, it’s a new world’: Mumbai’s marine life revealed
A group of sea life enthusiasts is documenting a wealth of species thriving in the shadow of India’s most populous city, from glowing coral to octopuses
Kalpana Sunder. Photographs by Sarang Naik
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Leading the charge: wildlife experts plan for future of Nepal’s rhinos
One-horned species was nearly extinct before poaching was curbed. Now the climate crisis could pose a greater threat
Neelima Vallangi
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Animal crossings: the ecoducts helping wildlife navigate busy roads across the world
India’s tiger corridor and Australia’s possum ‘tunnel of love’ are among the myiad infrastructure projects providing safe passage
Patrick Greenfield
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Pollution experts refuse to let Science Museum feature work over Shell links
Steve and Dee Allen say sponsorship deal and ‘gagging clause’ show it is no longer a credible scientific institution
Matthew Taylor
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Alok Sharma ‘deeply frustrated’ by India and China over coal
Cop26 president says nations will have to ‘explain to climate-vulnerable countries why they did what they did’
Fiona Harvey in Glasgow and Rowena Mason
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Boris Johnson plays down weakening of Cop26 coal ambitions
PM says ‘not much difference’ between ‘phasing down’ and ‘phasing out’ of the fossil fuel
Rowena Mason
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India criticised over coal at Cop26 – but real villain was climate injustice
Experts say country’s watering down of fossil fuel pledge reflected its lack of choices
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
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‘Reality check’: Global CO2 emissions shooting back to record levels
Fossil fuels are surging in post-pandemic recovery as scientists warn 1.5C emission limits will be reached in 11 years
Damian Carrington Environment editor
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Cop26 emission pledges could limit global heating to less than 2C
University of Melbourne research suggests India’s plans could make sizeable difference to projections
Fiona Harvey, Adam Morton and Jonathan Watts
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World leaders announce plan to make green tech cheaper than alternatives
UK, US and China among countries representing two-thirds of global economy to agree to push green energy and cars
Damian Carrington Environment editor
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‘The island has been shrinking’: living on the frontline of global heating
From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi and Shaikh Azizur Rahman in West Bengal