Uganda’s search for eco-friendly fuel
Ugandans are looking for alternative fuel. Currently, firewood and wood-based-charcoal are the most popular household fuels. But wood for charcoal is becoming scarcer and demand for it has led to...
View ArticleClimate change: a cold front in Jamaica
Jamaica’s farmers are worried about the weather. High winds, frosts in August and dryer conditions on the tropical island are making it harder to grow crops. All of which poses a threat to their...
View ArticleAdaptation pleas fall on deaf ears
Sierra Leone’s coastal residents are being flooded year-on-year. How can this poor country afford to pay for climate change adaptation? For the industrialised nations which are the main producers of...
View ArticleNigeria tries to save its dry north
It is only eight o’clock in the morning, and Nigerian farmer Hamisu Abdulahi is already exhausted. Under the intense heat, Abdulahi, a resident of Birnin Gaye village in Bauchi state in Northern...
View ArticleCurbing climate change: what’s in it for China?
China’s stance is seen as key to the success of a post-Kyoto climate change agreement. Ke Xu explores some of its carbon-cutting options. In the Bali roadmap, agreed at the 2007 negotiations of the UN...
View ArticleAdaptation in the Third Pole
It was pouring in Kathmandu when my plane landed in September – the runway had cracked due to the torrential rains (the monsoon had arrived late this year) and the city was muddy, crowded and clogged...
View ArticleThe glacier that buried a village
Scientists fear mountain glaciers are melting faster than ever as a result of rising temperatures, leading to fears that glacial lakes are becoming dangerously unstable. For Chitral village in...
View ArticleDying marine life spells woe for Namibian economy
The Benguela is lauded as the current of plenty but the future of its rich marine ecosystem is uncertain. Scientists fear warming seas will spell disaster for the economy of the region where the...
View ArticleFirst comes the gun, then the choking air
Imagine a scenario where the threat to the inhabitants of conflict-torn Kashmir won’t be the gun, but the quality of their air. The pollution trends in this part of the globe suggest that it has almost...
View ArticleColombia’s Indian communities join forces to beat drought
Colombia’s indigenous peoples are working together to create an adaptation plan against climate change, which will bring together their own traditional knowledge with outside help from other agencies....
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