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Between two worlds

A short series of pieces from writers who live between two worlds, reflecting on the ways that climate change hits differently, depending on where you are

  • Lelata village, Samoa, which sustained heavy damage from flash flooding as a result of Cyclone Evan

    ‘When a cyclone hits a thatched hut in the Pacific Islands, it’s raw and scary’

    Storms do not ravage a modern insulated home as they do Samoa’s traditional fale dwellings
  • Mbaji Chikuro is a coconut farmer and palm wine maker, he shows one of the coconut trees he recently cut down after it dried up in Rabai, Kenya

    ‘You’ll rarely find a climate denier in east Africa’

    Having spent years in the US, journalist Caroline Kimeu is now seeing the agonising impacts of the climate crisis in Kenya
  • Woman on balcony of flats in sandstorm.

    ‘It turns out that a sandstorm is not the same wherever it happens’

    Stark difference in experience of sandstorms in Cairo and Dubai raises questions as climate crisis deepens
  • A construction worker walks across a mirage created on a road during a heatwave in Delhi, India.

    ‘In Delhi I can see the climate catastrophe unfolding before my eyes’

    Rahul Raina splits his year between his homes in Oxford and Delhi, cities where the fallout from the climate crisis is being felt in starkly different ways
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