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Sri Lanka braced for more damage after torrential rain kills hundreds across Asia
ByOllie Lewis December 1, 2025

Meanwhile, Iran grapples with one of worst droughts and temperatures fall 10C below normal in USMore heavy rainfall is expected in Sri Lanka in the coming days, likely resulting in further damage across the country. It comes after torrential rainfall i…

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Climate crisis or a warning from God? Iranians desperate for answers as water dries up
ByPatrick Wintour in Tehran November 16, 2025

As rainy season fails to bring relief, authorities try cloud seeding – while others across the country pray for a miracleWater, and its absence, has become Iran’s national obsession. In the mosques of northern Tehran the imams have been praying for rai…

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$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
ByDamian Carrington Environment editor November 15, 2025

Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on? Continue reading…

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China and Saudi Arabia among nations receiving climate loans, analysis reveals
By November 14, 2025

Investigation by Guardian and Carbon Brief finds just a fifth of funds to fight global heating went to poorest 44 countriesChina and wealthy petrostates including Saudi Arabia and UAE are among countries receiving large sums of climate finance, accordi…

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China and Saudi Arabia among nations receiving climate loans, analysis reveals
By November 14, 2025

Investigation by Guardian and Carbon Brief finds just a fifth of funds to fight global heating went to poorest 44 countriesChina and wealthy petrostates including Saudi Arabia and UAE are among countries receiving large sums of climate finance, accordi…

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Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals
ByNina Lakhani November 11, 2025November 11, 2025

Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sitesIsraeli armed forces and settlers have attacked Palestinian water sources more than 250 times in the past five years, amounting to the most…

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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
ByLorenzo Tondo in Palermo and Damian Carrington in London October 4, 2025October 4, 2025

Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and waterThe environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli cust…

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Israeli naval forces board pro-Palestinian flotilla 75 miles from Gaza
ByLorenzo Tondo in Palermo and agencies October 1, 2025October 2, 2025

Greta Thunberg arrested and taken into custody after six of the flotilla’s boats were boardedMiddle East crisis liveA number of boats from a pro-Palestinian flotilla have been boarded by Israeli forces roughly 75 miles off the coast of Gaza, as the ves…

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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
ByGeorge Monbiot September 27, 2025

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all lifeA landless people and a peopleless land: these, it appears, are the aims of the Israeli government in Gaza. The…

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‘We must change’: how drought and overextraction of water has run Iran dry
ByPatrick Wintour September 21, 2025

Iranians blame climate change, sanctions, mistakes and neglect, and Iran’s vice-president wants to tackle them all Continue reading…

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