‘My brother was working there as an operator. We spoke to him around 7:00 am in the morning, and everything was fine. By 9:00 am his phone could not be reached,’ he says.

Following news of the flood and devastation, he rushed immediately to the rescue site at Nuwakot, where he has waited since early morning for news. ‘The authorities have not given us any information at all. We would go back home if the rescue team or security personnel informed us whether my brother is alive or dead,’ he says.

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FairPlanet’s correspondent visited Nuwakot, northwest of Kathmandu, on Saturday, three days after a flood swept down the Bhotekoshi River from Tibet, killing hundreds of people and leaving thousands more missing.

Recalling the event, Tej Prasad Timilsina, an employee of the Agricultural Development Bank in Bidur, Nuwakot, told the FairPlanet correspondent that, ‘It was around 9:10 in the morning. I had already reached the office. My relatives in ...

‘The worst thing that happens to Syrians is they become numbers,’ Bilal Abboud, a Syrian survivors’ rights advocate, told FairPlanet in a video call. 

Abboud considers himself a lucky person. He was living in Al-Qusayr, one of the last neighbourhoods of Deir-ez-Zor held by government forces when it was besieged by Islamic State (ISIS). In 2015, his family fled to Damascus. Two years later, his life changed when a mortar shell exploded while he was returning home ...

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According to an analysis by the non-profit organisation Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, Europe’s projected grain harvest was reduced by a net nine million tonnes during the late-June heatwave, representing an estimated loss of around EUR 1.8 billion. The research institute Prognos calculated that the economic cost of the two-week heatwave in Germany alone was EUR 6.3 billion, largely due to lost productivity. 

Furthermore, the European mortality monitoring system ...

The culmination of words outside my hut felt like stones. One of the voices was from a young boy no older than twelve. That hurt the most.

‘Give me back my yam!’

The yelling and shouting continued until they were tired and stopped. The silence arrived with a sense of comfort – temporary but welcome. I stared at the masquerade costume passed down by my father and before then my grandfather, and considered throwing it into the river. This costume held beautiful memories in each thread but had become heavier over the years. It lay in my hands. The indigo-dyed linen with red and orange tassels across it. There were small eye and nose areas cut out so I could see and breathe. Without wearing the garment, it looked alive, a bestial and majestic creature. I sat ...

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In the same interview, Scontrino described witnessing a great deal underwater: gorgonian forests thinning during marine heatwaves, seabeds shifting in colour and composition, invasive species filling the gaps. But one threat remains invisible to most: below the surface of the Mediterranean, kilometres of abandoned fishing nets are still hunting on their own –  trapping, killing, degrading habitats already under ...

The Gomoras are at the centre of Netflix’s new TV series, ‘The Polygamist’, released in June to overwhelming success of more than 27 million views globally. ‘I’ll own being the most hated man on Netflix until they give me another show,’ joked South African actor S’dumo Mtshali, who portrays Jonasi Gomora, in an inte ...

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The growing unpredictability in weather patterns and the increase in both frequency and severity of extreme weather events have a huge impact on human livelihoods – including those of mango farmers.

In Malihabad, India’s so-called mango capital, mango farmer Haji Kalimullah Khan is increasingly concerned about the ...

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‘Back scorched in the kilns, blood boils under the sun,’ she raps in her 2025 track Heatwave Rising, released in collaboration with Greenpeace India. ‘The one whose sweat builds your home is himself left homeless.’

Released as India was emerging from yet another punishing summer, the track is part of a growing body of climate-conscious rap being made by artists from India’s most heat-exposed communities — ...

Eleven years later, that same woman stood atop Mount Everest, having overcome war, discrimination, personal loss and extraordinary odds to reach the highest point on Earth.

Zakia Ahmad, better known as River Ahmad, is a 33-year-old Afghan mountaineer from the persecuted Shiite Hazara community. She was among the mountaineers who scaled the world’s tallest mountain in Nepal in May.

‘As a young girl, I walked four hours each way through mountains just to reach school. Those long walks taught me endurance, discipline, and the quiet strength of persistence,’ she ...

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In Africa, for example, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies estimates that 167 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2025, around 78 per cent of them in countries experiencing active conflict. The pattern is stark: where fighting persists, hunger deepens.

Humanitarian organisations working in these environments are developing practical responses. One of them is the Mary Dinah Foundation (MDF), that works to prevent acute malnutrition in conflict-affected communities. The foundation partners with local health facilities and distributes ready-to-use therapeutic and ...

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