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Each year the UN tackles more and more important and detrimental environmental issues, and the Maldives has, historically, been on the forefront of each endeavour. With a slight lull in...
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On a sombre Valentine’s day, 14 February 2022, the intense extratropical cyclone that was part of the 2021-2022 European windstorm season was named Eunice. An amber weather warning was issued for the...
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When the disastrous Sumatran earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated Indonesia and shorelines all across the Indian Ocean, the world was in shock. Thousands of lives were lost, and thousands more...
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Renewable energy is the obvious answer, barring the lack of justification for a nuclear power plant in the humble, disjointed nation of the Maldives. Since 2009, the demand by the...
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In the early 90s, people believed that the structure of the Arctic would not have changed in their life time. Yet, 30 years hence, half of the Arctic sea ice...
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Thilafushi is the trash island of the Maldives, designated as a landfill at the close of 1991. Thilafalhu was initially a lagoon with a length of seven kilometres, and a...
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One can surely agree without any further debate that sustainable energy is the only option for the future.
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The people of the world were hopeful this year. COP26 was supposed to be the time when world leaders got their act together and became the heroes they were meant...
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With COP26 hanging over the entire world, it feels prudent, again, to remind ourselves of the evolution in the Maldivian voice against climate change. And the hypocrisy that lurks beneath.
