Climate Change

‘Cli-Fi’ Reaches into Literature Classrooms Worldwide

By Dan Bloom
From Columbia University in New York to the University of Cambridge in Britain, college classrooms are picking up on the "cli-fi" genre of fiction, and cinema and academia is right behind them.

In India, an Indoor Health Crisis

By Athar Parvaiz
For years, Kehmli Devi, a middle-aged woman from the village of Chachadeth in India’s northern Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, has prepared her family’s meals on a wood-burning stove.

Opinion: Eco-efficient Crop and Livestock Production for Nicaraguan Farmers

By Kwesi Atta-Krah and Reynaldo Bismarck Mendoza
For Roberto Pineda, a smallholder farmer in the Somotillo municipality of Nicaragua, his traditional practice after each harvest was to cut down and burn all crop residues on his land, a practice known as “slash-and-burn” agriculture.

Opinion: Bridging the Gap – How the SDG Fund is Paving the Way for a Post-2015 Agenda

By Paloma Duran
The countdown has begun to September’s Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with world leaders discussing the 17 goals and 169 targets proposed by the United Nations Open Working Group.

Opinion: Let’s Grant Women Land Rights and Power Our Future

By Monique Barbut
Women are not only the world’s primary food producers. They are hardworking and innovative and, they invest far more of their earnings in their families than men. But most lack the single most important asset for accessing investment resources – land rights.

Tech-Savvy Women Farmers Find Success with SIM Cards

By Stella Paul
Jawadi Vimalamma, 36, looks admiringly at her cell phone. It’s a simple device that can only be used to send or receive a call or a text message. Yet to the farmer from the village of Janampet, located 150 km away from Hyderabad, capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana, it symbolises a wealth of knowledge that changed her life.

Opinion: It’s Time to Step It Up for Gender Equality

By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
If we look at the headlines or the latest horrifying YouTube clip, Mar. 8 – International Women’s Day – may seem a bad time to celebrate equality for women.

Syrian Conflict Has Underlying Links to Climate Change, Says Study

By Thalif Deen
Was the four-year-old military conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, mostly civilians, triggered at least in part by climate change?

Bamboo – An Answer to Deforestation or Not in Africa?

By Jeffrey Moyo
Deforestation is haunting the African continent as industrial growth paves over public commons and puts more hectares into private hands.

Sometimes a Single Tree Is More Effective than a Government

By Mallika Aryal
Every morning, Raj Kumari Chaudhari walks from her home to the other end of Padnaha village, located in the Bardiya district of mid-west Nepal, to a big mango tree to offer prayers.

Natural Disasters Cost Asia-Pacific 60 Billion Dollars, 6,000 Lives in 2014

By Josh Butler
Natural disasters in Asian and Pacific nations cost almost 60 billion dollars and killed 6,000 people in 2014.

Opinion: Water and the World We Want

By Corinne Schuster-Wallace and Robert Sandford
We have entered a watershed year, a moment critical for humanity.

Mega-Cities, Mortality and Migration

By Joseph Chamie
As the international community marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, one question worthy of some reflection is: Is world population better or worse off demographically since the establishment of the U.N.?

Falling Oil Prices Won’t Derail St. Lucia’s Push for Clean Energy

By Kenton X. Chance
At Plas Kassav, a roadside outlet in Canaries, a rural community in western St. Lucia, a busload of visitors from other Caribbean countries, along with tourists from North America and Europe, sample the 12 flavours of freshly baked cassava bread on sale.

From Brown to Green Again, Trinidadians Reclaim a Forest

By Desmond Brown
Thanks to committed involvement by the local community, the Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project has transformed this area of Trinidad from a bare, dusty hillside to one where tall trees flourish, fruit trees grow alongside flowering plants, and more wildlife returns each year.

Chikungunya Thrives with Climate Variability in the Caribbean

By Jewel Fraser
Jenny had gone to bed feeling well, but an hour into her sleep she suddenly awoke with a “stiff, cramping pain” behind one knee. Within the next hour the pains had multiplied and both knees began to lock, followed by stiffened fingers and pains in her chest, along with a fever.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Climate Change

By Manipadma Jena
So much information about climate change now abounds that it is hard to differentiate fact from fiction. Scientific reports appear alongside conspiracy theories, data is interspersed with drastic predictions about the future, and everywhere one turns, the bad news just seems to be getting worse.

Fighting Climate Change with Community Action

By Desmond Brown
Not far above Trinidad’s capital, Port-of-Spain, in a corner of the St. Ann’s valley in the Northern Range, the community of Fondes Amandes has come together since 1982 to respond to climate change.

Indigenous Peoples – Architects of the Post-2015 Development Agenda

By Valentina Gasbarri
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children” – an ancient Indian saying that encapsulates the essence of sustainability as seen by the world’s indigenous people.

Keeping Food Security on the Table at U.N. Climate Talks

By Denise M. Fontanilla and Chris Wright
Food security has become a key issue of the U.N. climate negotiations this week in Geneva as a number of countries and observers raised concerns that recent advances in Lima are in jeopardy.

Warming, Wildfires and Worries

By Joseph Chamie
World leaders from government, finance, business, science and civil society are attempting to negotiate a legally binding and universal agreement on climate change at the upcoming 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference being convened in Paris in December.
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