カテゴリー: Climate change
Faced with climate change, farmers in Jammu and Kashmir are switching from maize to essential oilsIt’s late June and the field is glowing with fragrant purple as the women in their flowing shalwar kameez arrive with scythes to harvest the lavender. In …
Photographer Prashanth Vishwanathan captured a network of community dairies providing a lifeline to off-grid farmers in Maharashtra, helping to keep milk fresh as temperatures rise. All pictures are from Climate VisualsAs global temperatures climb, a l…
Japan’s famous cherry blossoms have reached their flowery peak in many places earlier this year than at any time since records began nearly 70 years ago, with experts saying climate change is the likely cause Continue reading…
Peak bloom reached on 26 March in Kyoto and experts say impact of global warming is to blameJapan’s famous cherry blossoms have reached their flowery peak in many places earlier this year than at any time since formal records began nearly 70 years ago,…
A rickshaw rider, a domestic worker, a student and a photographer on how their lives have changedThe making of a megacity: how Dhaka transformed in 50 years of BangladeshHabibur Rahman, 48, rickshaw rider Continue reading…
Thousands of blazes in Similipal national park threaten indigenous peoples and wildlife such as tigers, elephants and orchidsAs the flames move fast, snaking quickly upwards in the treacherous terrain of Similipal national park and turning everything o…
Reduced environmental protections and conservation job losses could hit vital progress on climate and biodiversity, research findsAs Maasai herding lands shrink, so does space for Kenya’s elephantsJob cuts in nature reserves and environmental rollbacks…
Sir Jonathan Porritt says there is ‘no going back’ to tourism as it was pre-Covid and that flying is a privilege not a rightAir New Zealand’s chief environmental adviser has said he is in favour of increasing the price of flights to New Zealand and “pu…
Target is in line with previous trends and could lead to greenhouse gas emissions continuing to riseChina has set out an economic blueprint for the next five years that could lead to a strong rise in greenhouse gas emissions if further action is not ta…
Imminent economic blueprint has implications for planet – and whether Paris agreement likely to be metChina is to publish a new blueprint for its economy on Friday, with vast implications for the future of the planet – including whether the goals of th…
President of Kiribati says China will provide ‘technical assistance’ to convert land in Fiji into a working farm to ‘supply produce to Kiribati’A block of land the government of Kiribati bought in Fiji half a decade ago – ostensibly to serve as a refug…
Pacific diplomacy hinges on in-person discussion but web-only meetings have fed a growing dispute over the forum’s leadership and purposeIn the Pacific, it is all about the talanoa: the conversation and the consensus.For the 50 years of the Pacific Isl…
Energy watchdog’s Fatih Birol says shift away from coal in key regions needs to be made a global priorityDependency on coal in key parts of the world is preventing a global green recovery from taking off, and the shift away from coal needs to be made a…
Three-year-old boy among those missing in floodwaters in the country’s northern and western islandsOne person has died, and five, including a three-year-old boy, are still missing after Cyclone Ana pummelled Fiji on Sunday, just over a month after cate…
Crowds outside parliament demand government take the same science-led approach on climate as it did on CovidSchool climate strikes have resumed in New Zealand, with young people calling on the government to turn the “can-do Kiwi attitude” that beat Cov…