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The good news ‘It gets your stomach churning’: the team wading through nappies to clean up Bali’s waterways Every week, the Sungai Watch staff don waders and gloves and plunge into the waterways around the Indonesian island of Bali, where they have strung up their big plastic barriers. Along with volunteers, they work their way

The Independent’s climate newsletter for the last week of August 2023

The aftermath of the wildfire which ripped through Lahaina, Hawaii earlier this month. It was the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century, leaving 115 people dead and hundreds more unaccounted for (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Climate Crisis   Hundreds of people remain unaccounted for in Maui following the deadliest wildfires in the United

Teachers unions, White House host town hall to demand in-person learning as school year starts

There was a great deal more lamentation about the impact of school closures on students’ standardised test scores than on the long-term effects of COVID-19, grief, or prolonged anxiety about the disease itself.