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Most opposition parties ditch UN climate change conference in Azerbaijan, citing human rights concerns
Most of the opposition parties on Parliament Hill are ditching the high-profile annual United Nations conference on climate change this year, citing human rights concerns in the host country Azerbaijan little more than a year after the mass exodus of nearly 120,000 ethnic Armenians from their homes in the once-disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. CBC | World News
Read More »Cholera cases explode after extreme rains fuelled by climate change in west and central Africa
In west and central Africa, heavy rains and flooding show climate change is another thumb on a scale already weighed down by war and disease. CBC | World News
Read More »Ethiopian collectors and craftspeople counter climate change scrap by scrap
Scrap collectors in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, sell everything from plastic bottles and electronics to all kinds of unwanted bric-a-brac to middlemen — who either restore them or use the raw materials to make something sellable. Those involved in the Merkato market say the system provides an economic opportunity while contributing to waste diversion and reducing climate change. CBC | World ...
Read More »Climate change destroyed an Alaska village. Its residents are starting over in a new town
In the next few weeks, the last 71 residents of Newtok, Alaska, will load their possessions onto boats to move to Mertarvik, rejoining 230 residents who began moving away in 2019. CBC | World News
Read More »Natural History Museum to overhaul dinosaur exhibit for new ‘climate messaging’ display
The Museum will roll out a new exhibit – Fixing Our Broken Planet – in 2025 and the gallery will centre around climate change. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Brazil is on fire, and both crime and climate change are to blame
Fires are breaking records Brazil, encompassing wider areas of rainforest, destroying huge swaths of biodiverse wetlands, and even bringing thick smoke and smog to the country’s usually unscathed capital city, Brasilia. CBC | World News
Read More »How this ‘early warrior’ of climate change reporting helped change the media landscape
Peter Dykstra, an environmental activist-turned-journalist who helped push climate change reporting into the mainstream, has died. CBC | World News
Read More »Trump and Vance take aim at Biden’s climate legislation. Some Republicans would rather they didn’t
The Republican ticket is trying to make climate action a wedge issue in the U.S. election. It’s a risky move when Biden-era bills are projected to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and much of the green investments are going to Republican districts — including a steel plant in J.D. Vance’s hometown. CBC | World News
Read More »How rural Guatemalan communities are fighting malnutrition, climate change
Recent droughts and crop failures have exacerbated hunger and malnutrition in Guatemala, prompting aid organizations like the UN’s World Food Program to step in with training and financial aid to improve nutrition. Rural communities — like Tecuiz here — are learning new and innovative ways to improve local food production, both traditional and unconventional, such as aquaculture, in the country’s ...
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