Heat wave crisis: Developing nations bear the brunt

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Clouds and wildfire smoke partially obscure a sun ...

Preventing water conflicts in Central Africa

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The Ruzizi River forms part of the border between Rwanda on the east with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on the west. Further downstream, it forms part ...

Health in times of climate chaos: floods in Rio Grande do Sul

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Flooding in Rio Grande do Sul. Floods in Rio Grande do Sul call for immediate interventions to tackle health effects and long-term mental health repercussions. Calls ...

Rio Grande do Sul floods: It’s not the climate’s fault

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Heavy rains cause flooding across Rio Grande do Sul, in the state’s biggest climate tragedy. The environmental crisis has its origins in the very way in which the ...

The global left must dare to win on a tight deadline

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Youth climate activists in Uganda call for an end to fossil fuels on April 29, 2023. We must be honest and serious about what climate collapse means to our struggles ...

Resource Curse grips Mozambique

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The Eiffel tower is illuminated in green with the words 'Paris Agreement is Done' to celebrate the Paris UN COP21 Climate Change agreement in Paris. – Picture: File ...

1974: Portuguese climate activists on trial are true spirit of April 25

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Portuguese climate activists lower a banner reading, ‘The government and companies declared war on society and the planet’. On the eve of the anniversary of the ...

Uniting for water security in Johannesburg

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South Africa - Durban - 22 March 2024 - Making handy work of the “Water for Peace” theme on World Water Day yesterday at Durban NPO Green Corridors’ Green Hub at ...

Don’t let warmongers greenwash their ecocide This Earth Day

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A person watches from a donkey-drawn cart as people search the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Asra residential compound, northwest of Nuseirat in the Gaza ...

African-led response to climate security risks across the Continent

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Picture: Rogiro / CC BY-NC-SA 2. 0 DEED – In 2021, the AU’s Peace and Security Council requested the AU Commission to conduct a climate security risk assessment ...

War is more than what you think it is

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Picture: Sergey Shestak / AFP / March 26, 2023 – A Ukrainian T-72 tank fires at Russian positions on the front line near Bakhmut, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ...

UN “Summit of the Future” must deliver for the planet

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Picture: Wikipedia – Orphaned ship in former Aral Sea, near Aral, Kazakhstan. Today, the Aral has shrunk to less than a quarter of its former size. By Adam DayIn ...

Why climate change, health communicators need to work together

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Picture: UNDP / Twitter – In an example of growing high-level interest in the topic of disinformation, the Nobel Foundation along with the US National Academy of ...

How dare you shrug at the Doomsday Clock?

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Picture: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – The Doomsday Clock was reset at 90 seconds to midnight on January 23, 2024. For the second year in a row, the Doomsday ...

MENA region headed for more insecurity due to climate change

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Picture: Fethi Belaid / AFP / October 13, 2021 – The empty Sidi Salem dam in the northern Tunisian area of Testour, in the Beja province. The Sidi Salem reservoir ...

We only have hope: a tree that bends but doesn’t break

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Image: Reproduction via Brasil de Fato – ...

Niger Delta: Climate change and internal security operations

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Picture: Michel Isamuna / Unsplash / November 29, 2022 – Climate change is already compounding the level of competition for resources, resulting in conflicts in ...

Oil Jabber heard in Dubai: Our top ten reasons to dismiss the Conference of Polluters 28

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Picture: Giuseppe Cacace / AFP / on December 12, 2023 – Climate activists hold hands together during a protest against fossil fuels during the United Nations Climate ...

Countdown to 2030: the state of the planet in 2023

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Picture: Yuki Iwamura / AFP / on August 14, 2023 – Charred remains of a burned neighbourhood is seen in the aftermath of a wildfire, in Lahaina, western Maui, Hawaii ...