All the risks of climate change, in a single graph
The risks of climate change are not easy to communicate clearly. Since the atmosphere affects everything, everything will be affected by...
Climate Impacts on African Fisheries: The Imperative to Understand and Act
Climate change leads to rising sea temperatures, making fish stocks migrate toward colder waters away from equatorial latitudes, and...
Africa needs practical solutions, not promises to tackle climate change
Climate change poses an existential threat to Africa. Although the continent produces two percent of the annual greenhouse gas emissions,...
Private Sector Called Upon to Disrupt “Business-As-Usual” at COP 23
“I am asking you to misbehave…” This was UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ plea to business during his opening of the High-Level...
Ethiopia’s waste-to-energy plant is a first in Africa
For half a century, the Koshe dump site has been the only landfill in Addis Ababa. As the city has expanded, the landfill – which used to...
Jane Goodall Calls for Climate Change Action to Save Planet at Global Citizen Festival
In front of 60,000 global citizens, Dr. Jane Goodall spoke chimpanzee on the Global Citizen Festival stage to roaring cheers earlier this...
Venezuela's last glacier is about to disappear
Venezuela used to have five glaciers. Today, only one remains. The last glacier in Venezuela, the Humboldt glacier, is about to...
Kadvi Hawa movie review: The dark, haunting tale of climate change, farmer suicides
Darkly humorous and searing, Kadvi Hawa is a film that will stay with you. The burden of loan on farmers, the shockingly high rate of...
Congo basin’s peaty swamps are new front in climate change battle
Stumbling on submerged roots, attacked by bees and wading waist-deep through leech-infested water, the three researchers and their Pygmy...
Breathless in Delhi: a taste of environmental Armageddon
It was 2am on Sunday in Delhi and a friend and I were travelling in a rickshaw, heading home from a party. It was a hellscape. The...