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Published on 12 May 2020
Members of Cornell’s Humphrey Fellowship Program shared stories of struggle and hope as their countries grapple with climate change during “Global Climate Stories,” an April 22 webinar marking the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. Read more.
Published on 12 May 2020
Today's novel coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the globe. The pandemic has rapidly uprooted life as we know it and left countries across the world scrambling to contain the outbreaks. In just a few short months, billions of people have become jobless, ill, or had their lives significantly disrupted. But this might not be the only infectious disease we'll have to battle in our lifetimes. According to research from…
Published on 16 April 2020 Global
The internet has deemed 2020 canceled. And now everyone's looking for a silver lining. But you know what's not a silver lining of this pandemic? Fixing the climate crisis. We haven't fixed it, aren't fixing it, and the way we're talking about all of this is gross. You've probably seen these headlines — that air pollution and heat-trapping emissions appear to be down as the…
Published on 20 March 2020 by Helen Regan Global
While the coronavirus pandemic and climate change are inherently different issues, they share two important characteristics: both are global crises that threaten the lives of millions of people. Yet only one crisis has inspired widespread, drastic action from countries across the globe. As Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, spreads, governments, businesses, and individuals around the world have undertaken unprecedented, wartime-esqe measures. Countries have…
Published on 9 March 2020
Read more about the contributions of female humanitarians and gender bias within the aid sector:  https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2020/03/06/roundup-women-girls-disasters-crisis-response
Published on 17 February 2020 by Kristen Rogers
Some people might recall dodging flying bumblebees as kids, or finding the bees flitting around flowers in their front yard. If those moments seem few and far between these days, it's because in North America and Europe the effects of climate change have reduced the odds of seeing a bumblebee by more than 30% on average since the 20th century, according to a new study…
Published on 17 January 2020 by Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business
Microsoft is making an ambitious commitment to eliminate its carbon footprint by pledging to go "carbon negative" in the next decade and investing $1 billion to help develop clean technologies. The tech giant said Thursday it will seek to remove more carbon than it emits by 2030. "While the world will need to reach net-zero, those of us who can afford to move faster and…
Published on 17 December 2019
From Asia to South America, indigenous women’s movements work together demanding more presence and recognition worldwide as frontline fighters against climate change. “Women have a crucial role in many aspects and we can contribute to the solution of the climate change,” Pirawan Wongnithisathaporn, from Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (Thailand), told EFE. As the ones who directly suffer the global warming effects, women from indigenous communities…
Published on 21 November 2019
We only have a decade to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. That's the warning the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) put out last year. But so far, nations are not slashing emissions enough to keep Earth's temperature from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — the threshold established in the Paris climate agreement.  "What we know is that…
Published on 8 October 2019 by Chloé Farand and Natalie Sauer
Dozens of promises were made by governments, civil society, and business. Accountability is the next step Too often countries and companies make climate commitments that grab the media and political spotlight, only for governments or priorities to silently change. Last week, UN chief António Guterres gathered the world’s political, business and civil society leaders in New York in an effort to jump-start action on climate…
Published on 8 October 2019 by Brian Resnick and Danielle Scruggs
These images of youth climate activists on strike around the world are simply inspiring. This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Friday may be remembered as the largest global demonstration ever in the fight against climate change. Inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, young people around the world have…
Published on 8 October 2019
Young people recount how they protested, in the face of poverty, conflict and toxic air pollution, for action on climate change. Last month, young people around the world poured onto the streets in frustration at politicians dragging their feet on climate change. Protests took place in every continent, and organizers estimated that four million turned out in thousands of cities and towns worldwide. This is…
Published on 8 October 2019 by Leslie Nemo
Rafts of garbage, assembled by currents that swirl trash together, clog our oceans. But how did that material wind up adrift in the first place? A new study takes a look at the refuse that washes up on a remote island in the South Atlantic and arrives at a perhaps-unexpected answer: The trash is being dumped from ships. The findings, published Monday in the Proceedings of the…
Published on 8 October 2019 by Ellen Gray
Hot and dry. These are the watchwords for large fires. While every fire needs a spark to ignite and fuel to burn, the hot and dry conditions in the atmosphere determine the likelihood of a fire starting, its intensity and the speed at which it spreads. Over the past several decades, as the world has increasingly warmed, so has its potential to burn. Since 1880,…
Published on 19 September 2019 by Helen Regan
Explosive outbreaks of dengue fever have rapidly spread in countries across Asia, killing more than 1,000 people, infecting hundreds of thousands and straining hospitals packed with sick families. Images from Bangladesh show patients in teeming hospital wards, lying beneath mosquito nets under lurid electric strip lights. Mothers cool their children from the sticky summer heat with hand-held fans while others rest on hospital floors, holding drips, waiting…
Published on 15 August 2019 by Jeffrey Y. Campbell
Protecting the traditional knowledge and territories of indigenous peoples means helping achieve a sustainable, hunger-free world and contributing to the fight against deforestation and climate change. For years, the importance of indigenous peoples in the fight against deforestation, land degradation, and climate change was overlooked and even denied, to the detriment of the environment and the food systems on which we all depend. Thanks to the global advocacy of indigenous peoples and…
Published on 7 August 2019
As scientists learn more about the importance of animals to nature’s carbon-sequestering capabilities, they’ve come to understand that extinctions and extirpations are climate issues. Two new studies add powerful detail to that insight. The first, led by ecologist Fabio Berzaghi of Italy’s University of Tuscia and published in Nature Geoscience, drew on 17 years of data on vegetation structure and species competition in northern Congo. With elephants…
Published on 1 August 2019
Floating plastic garbage has swamped a remote Pacific island once regarded as an environmental jewel and scientists say little can be done to save it while a throwaway culture persists. Henderson Island is an uninhabited coral atoll that lies almost exactly halfway between New Zealand and Peru, with 5,500 kilometers (3,400 miles) of the ocean in either direction. Despite its extreme isolation, a freak confluence…
Published on 1 August 2019 by Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries
If Earth's resources were a bank account, today would mark the date we'd officially be in the red. As of July 29, humanity has officially used up more ecological resources this year than the Earth can regenerate by the end of the year. The occasion even has a name: Earth Overshoot Day. The Global Footprint Network, a sustainability organization which calculates the day, says humanity…
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