With increasing climate change issues affecting the globe, some countries are at higher risk of losing their place in the world – quite literally. Found throughout the world’s oceans and seas, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), are suffering the consequences of human actions and climate change combined. Already saddled with terrible social and economic [...]
The food crisis in the Horn of Africa, identified by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) as the largest global humanitarian crisis today, looks to be moving west. With signs of growing demand for food and rising prices in Niger and neighboring countries, international organizations are coming together to prevent a [...]
Among the various obstacles to achieving a minimum standard of living for children, an evolving threat is climate change. A recent UNICEF regional report shows that children in East Asia and the Pacific are most at risk. A recent Climate Vulnerability Monitor report states that over 99 percent of climate change deaths take place [...]
The UN Environment Programme reports that the last decade saw nine out of the 10 hottest years since reliable record keeping began, and a recent Berkeley study found that the Earth’s average land temperature had risen by .911 degrees Celsius since the 1950s, supporting several previous studies. At this rate, the Earth will see greater [...]
One of the world’s most diverse and pristine forests is at risk of dissipating, as it could soon fall into the hands of multinational oil companies come January 2012. Yasuní Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini (Yasuní-ITT), a virtually untouched national park in the Ecuadorian Amazon, lies atop approximately one billion barrels of oil, worth up to $100 [...]
Improving the delivery of climate forecasting information to the developing world will play a key role in averting humanitarian crises. Better access to climate data would allow countries and regions to improve preparedness and disaster risk management capacity, lessening the effects of drought, famine, and disease. Recently, scientists, academics, policymakers and stakeholders convened in New [...]
When the United Nations Security Council took up the issue of climate change for the first time in four years last month, the president of the world’s smallest island nation delivered a grim warning and impassioned appeal to the international community. Marcus Stephen of Nauru described to the council how rising sea levels are threatening [...]
People living in the low-lying areas of the Solomon Islands are migrating inland in an effort to escape the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels, coastal erosion, droughts, cyclones, storm surges, and water contamination. The government is also beginning a three-year climate change action program, funded by the European Commission, which will resettle [...]
Two foreign-owned mining and damming projects have been canceled in the Puno region in Peru after thousands of protestors rose up to protect their river, environment, and indigenous way of life. At least four Peruvians died in clashes with police and at least 24 more were injured as 1,000 protestors attempted to take over a [...]
Climate change has pronounced effects in agriculture, such as shifts in temperature and precipitation patterns, and prevalence of pests and diseases. Developing countries that get by with minimal productivity and limited technology are in danger of enduring lower and erratic production, aggravating both the farmers’ livelihood and the population’s food supply. As the Food and [...]
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