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Home / Environment / Climate change

New-build islands counter sea-level rise

Building new islands and raising the height of existing ones could help Maldives and others fight rising sea-levels.

Climate change hurts mental health

Bangladesh study shows heat, humidity and floods triggering anxiety, depression.

Alien plants threaten mountain ecology

Alien plants move up mountain slopes faster thanks to roads and changing climate, research suggests.

Sharper sea-level rise predicted

Sea-level rise impacts will be worsened by land subsidence in the Asia Pacific, a study warns.

India eyes end to heatwaves

‘Indian spring’ was aborted by heatwaves but forecasters are hopeful of a normal summer.

Climate crisis is also a health crisis

Climate change impacts on human health already vivid in the Pacific Island states.

El Niño events will increase by 2040

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