The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters and The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction have released their joint report on Economic Losses, Poverty and Disasters 1998-2017. It is an eye opener. It lists the events caused by changes in climatic conditions. The report concludes that between 1998 and 2017 climate-related and […]
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Weeping teenage climate activists in peaceful protest near London’s Heathrow
Teenage protesters staged an emotional protest at political inaction on climate change near London’s Heathrow Airport on Friday, a further day of actions that have caused transport snarl-ups in the British capital. The Extinction Rebellion group of climate-change campaigners stood weeping and singing in a peaceful roadside protest less than a mile from Heathrow Terminals […]
More than 100 arrested at London climate protests
More than 100 people have been arrested in ongoing climate change protests in London that brought parts of the British capital to a standstill, police said Tuesday. Demonstrators started blocking off a bridge and major central road junctions on Monday at the start of a civil disobedience campaign that also saw action in other parts […]
Conflict and climate set to plunge millions into food crisis
Food crises will affect tens of millions of people across the world this year, researchers warned on Tuesday, after war, extreme weather and economic woes in 2018 left more than 113 million in dire need of help. Conflict and insecurity were responsible for the desperate situation faced by 74 million people, or two-thirds of those […]
Chill waters, arid land: climate change arrives on Easter Island
Ludovic Burns Tuki first felt the chill of climate change while diving in the waters around his home on Easter Island, locally known as Rapa Nui, a remote land mass in the South Pacific famed for its distinctive ancient stone statues. The Polynesian diver has swum in these waters all his life, but found himself […]