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Climate crisis is foundation of Indian farmers’ protests

Omair Ahmad The current protests by Indian farmers against the passage of three laws have deep roots in income insecurity, which is driven by changing rainfall patterns and incentives that promote the overuse of water The protests by Indian farmers against three laws initially passed as ordinan

Germany leads in contributing to Global Fund for Coral Reefs

The Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR) announced that Germany, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation have made commitments to the fund totalling more than USD$10 million. These contributions, announced during the first GFCR Executive Board meeting this we

Environmental organizations issue 7 policy recommendations on biodiversity and One Health

Gabrielle Lipton Health, finance and landscape custodians called to the forefront of conservation policy As Earth’s biodiversity declines, the perilous consequences are proving to only rise. The destabilization of national economies, threats to food systems, escalation of climate change,

The plan to map every coral reef on Earth – from space

Most coral reefs are still unmapped. Scientists are aiming to monitor, in real-time, these biodiverse underwater worlds to protect and restore them. Further, they want to identify patches of coral that are naturally more resistant to climate change. In October 2020, Australian scientists found a det

Safe water costs 40 times more in coastal Bangladesh than cities

Riyan Talha Water is everywhere in coastal Bangladesh, but is increasingly undrinkable as sea level rise caused by climate change is turning water sources saline Twice a week, 50-year-old Brajasundari loads a collection of jerrycans onto a pedal cart, climbs aboard and travels three kilometres from

Vaccine Deployment and Investment Key to Sustaining the Economic Recovery: World Bank

The global economy is expected to expand 4% in 2021, assuming an initial COVID-19 vaccine rollout becomes widespread throughout the year. A recovery, however, will likely be subdued, unless policy makers move decisively to tame the pandemic and implement investment-enhancing reforms, the World Bank

Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett A. Butler 2020 was a rough year for tropical rainforest conservation efforts, as explained in Mongabay’s year-end wrap-up on rainforests. So what’s in store for 2021? Here are 11 things to watch. Mongabay Founder Rhett A. Butler reviews some of 11 key things to watch in the world of rainf

Fragile cities are being inundated with people fleeing the impacts of climate change. How can they cope?

Ambika Chawla Multi-stakeholder partnerships that include displaced people in the process show promise for helping overwhelmed communities deal with an influx of climate migrants from rural areas. When the rains never arrived in the East African nation of Somalia in 2016, nor in 2017, hundreds of th

Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor

Jörg Peters, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and Maximiliane Sievert, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Grid electricity is often said to be critical for long-term human development because it provides sufficient power for appliances and small industries. But are the substantially hig

South Korea’s finance of ‘green’ palm oil drives destruction in Indonesia

Seulki Lee A growing grassroots movement aims to stop the government bankrolling palm oil companies linked to forest destruction and human rights abuses In 2019, South Korea imported 745,000 metric tonnes of palm oil, up from 194,000 metric tonnes in 2005. It is one of the fastest-growing markets fo

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