Author: karen mcveigh
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‘Losing hope with every day that passes’: torment of the ships’ crews abandoned at sea
When Vihaan* set off from his home in Tamil Nadu, south India, to work on a vessel crossing the Bay of Bengal into neighbouring Bangladesh, he told his family he would be gone a few months. After delivering his cargo of stone to Bangladesh’s Kutubdia Island, the marine engineer was due to head home in…
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World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert
The world will be “unable to cope” with the sheer volume of plastic waste a decade from now unless countries agree to curbs on production, the co-chair of a coalition of key countries has warned ahead of crunch talks on curbing global plastic pollution. Speaking before the final, critical round of UN talks on the…