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15/2/2013
Imagine India in 2033. It has overtaken China as the most populous nation. Yet with 1.5 billion citizens to feed, it’s been three years since the last monsoon. Without rain, crops die and people starve.
The seeds of
conflict take ...
14/2/2013
Imagine India in 2033. It has overtaken China as the most populous nation. Yet with 1.5 billion citizens to feed, it’s been three years since the last monsoon. Without rain, crops die and people starve.
The seeds of
conflict take ...
19/11/2012
There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement. It’s a secret war being waged in the shadows while you go about your everyday life.
In the end, this
conflict may ...
1/10/2012
Climate change is ravaging the world's nutritional supplies, and in the very near future we'll be looking at astronomical prices for staple foods. Which will lead to starvation,
conflict, and hugely increased competition for resources. Can we ...
18/5/2012
Some 1 billion people will be forced from their homes by 2050 as climate change deepens an already huge global migration crisis, predicts an authoritative new report by Christian Aid - which shows that scapegoating immigrants is the wrong ...
16/4/2012
Over the past half century, oil companies have turned the Niger delta in West Africa, one of the world’s largest mangrove swamps, into a poisoned
landscape. Twice the size of the Mississippi delta, it is today a desolate world of oil-encrusted ...
21/11/2011
On 28 November, 195 parties and 17,000 delegates will descend on Durban for the latest round of global climate talks.
Africa is the continent most vulnerable to climate change, because of its vastness, its poverty and its diversity. Its ...
18/10/2011
The Earth’s natural resources like food, water and forests are being depleted at an alarming speed, causing hunger,
conflict, social unrest, and species extinction, experts at a climate and health conference in London warned on ...
4/7/2011
People gather to collect water in Wajir, Kenya. A severe drought in east Africa is causing malnutrition rates to soar and threatening the lives of children throughout the region.
A "toxic mix" of drought, failed harvests and rising food ...
17/6/2011
For the world, as for his family, the birth of Adnan Nevic was cause for celebration. No less an eminence than the secretary-general of the United Nations attended his arrival, posing with the swaddled child as camera strobes lit a maternity room ...
1/6/2011
This year the world's population is expected to top the 7 billion mark, with predictions that the figure will rise to 9 billion by 2050. As the global population grows, more people are going hungry. It is estimated that 850 million people ...
8/3/2011
About 40km west of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, in Grand Cape Mount county, a massive billboard proudly announces the arrival of the Malaysian palm-oil conglomerate: "Sime Darby, developing sustainable futures". In the middle of a recently ...
22/2/2011
Late last year, an international team of researchers from Costa Rica, Australia, Brazil and the UK published an academic paper calling for a more integrated approach to dealing with snake-bites.
The review, published in the journal ...
13/1/2011
Some friends had a memorable Christmas. They spent it with family in Belfast, where water could only be obtained by melting the snowman. Providentially they and the children had made a large one and it kept them going for two days, until the ...
17/12/2010
Few are aware that close to one billion people in over 100 different countries are suffering from or severely threatened by intense desertification. Yet awareness is crucial, for it is human behaviour that has led to the proliferation of hyper- ...
3/12/2010
The problem: African hunger. In a nutshell, 250 million Africans are undernourished, a quarter of the population and an increase of 100 million in the last 20 years. Yet 70% of Africans are farmers growing food.
The hope: Within one ...
27/10/2010
For thousands of years, nomadic herdsmen have roamed the harsh, semi-arid lowlands that stretch across 80 percent of Kenya and 60 percent of Ethiopia. Descendants of the oldest tribal societies in the world, they survive thanks to the animals ...
15/9/2010
Electric pumps have been the most influential technology in water for agriculture in the last 20 years
Small-scale water solutions are a key to increasing agricultural productivity in the face of climate change, says water expert David ...
16/8/2010
Desertification has long been recognised as a major environmental, economic and social problem for countries the world over. But despite major efforts, which started with the United Nations Conference on Desertification (UNOCD) in 1977, the ...
14/5/2010
The North should pay reparations to the South for the effects of climate change.
This is the position of Professor Patrick Bond arguing the case for ecological compensation that he believes the North owes to the South for causing climate ...
22/3/2010
Climate change and environmental degradation are likely to trigger increased migration in
Sub-Saharan Africa with potentially devastating effects on the hundreds of millions of especially poor people, according to a paper in the International ...
7/3/2010
We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty
land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far ...
5/2/2010
Poor countries are still gripped by the food crisis of two years ago and climate change will only make things tougher in the coming years, says the head of Canadian International Development Agency.
CIDA President Margaret Biggs offered ...
23/11/2009
New research suggests that higher average temperatures could create conditions for more civil wars, like the ongoing
conflict in Darfur.Some experts call the genocide in Darfur the world's first
conflict caused by climate change. After ...
30/3/2009
If you were casting for a film about a policy academic in Whitehall, and Nicholas Stern auditioned, you would reject him on the grounds that he looked so much like a cliche that he would be a caricature. If you were casting for the rock star of ...