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Food & Agriculture
Q&A: The role of soil health in food security and tackling climate change
Feeding the 8.2 billion people who inhabit the planet depends on healthy soils.
Speaking at Singapore's Impact Week, Nobel Prize winner José Ramos-Horta called on young people to pursue careers in water security innovation.
Even passing 1.5°C of global warming temporarily would trigger a “significant” risk of Amazon forest “dieback”, says a new study.
Food & Agriculture
Tropical island nations face a land crisis
From the Philippines to Saint Kitts and Nevis, tropical islands are grappling with degradation, drought and desertification.
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20 December 2024
Carbon & Climate
Drought in the Amazon: How the world's nature is drying out
13 December 2024
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Carbon & Climate
New UN figures reveal huge cost of drought and desertification
19 November 2024
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Policy & Finance
UN calls for finance to close adaptation gap
24 May 2023
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Carbon & Climate
10 devastating extreme weather events in 2022
19 August 2022
Carbon & Climate
Greening the Himalayas: Is there a 'wrong' place to plant trees?
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Carbon & Climate
Millions at risk as India's severe heatwave exposes cooling gaps
19 May 2022
Carbon & Climate
Low Mekong waters make life hard around Cambodia’s smaller lakes
18 May 2022
Food & Agriculture
In Indonesia, climate change takes a bite out of apple crops
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Food & Agriculture
Climate change exacerbates food crisis in Nepal’s poorest region
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