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Climate now biggest driver of migration, study finds

The effects of climate change, including floods and extreme temperatures, have become more important push factors in migration than economic inequality or conflict, according to a global study. The s...

9 May 2019

Climate now biggest driver of migration, study finds

News / Manufacturing

Sand mining 'mafias' destroying environment, livelihoods: UN

...flooding, lowered groundwater levels, hurt marine life, and exacerbated the occurrence and severity of landslides and drought, it said. “ Sand is too plain, too ubiquitous to get the sort of attentio...

8 May 2019

Sand mining 'mafias' destroying environment, livelihoods: UN

News / Policy & Finance

Danger and desperation in Myanmar’s jade mines

...floods while contaminating local water sources. Powerful vested interests Demand from China fuels Myanmar’s jade industry, which takes the form of a murky web of illegal Chinese-funded companies whose...

30 Nov 2020

Danger and desperation in Myanmar’s jade mines

News / Water

Indonesia dam burst raises alarm over unchecked forest clearing

In the Indonesian city of Makassar, where the rainy season often brings floods, Hasriani didn't worry when a day-long downpour last month saw water rise to her knees by the time she had picked up her ...

11 Feb 2019

Indonesia dam burst raises alarm over unchecked forest clearing

News / Food & Agriculture

Agricultural reforms and urban accountability key to water management

...flood irrigation. In a densely populated region where around 80 per cent of water is used for irrigation, which accounts for the largest number of water pumps in the world, and there is no law to regu...

2 Jul 2019

Agricultural reforms and urban accountability key to water management

News / Energy

India's tribal farmers tap solar irrigation to cut migration

...flooding them, said Bikash Das, senior scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). Access to irrigation also can provide farmers with a more reliable income, since one farm can pr...

3 Aug 2020

India's tribal farmers tap solar irrigation to cut migration

News / Carbon & Climate

HER Planet Earth first all-female team to fatbike across Greenland

...flooding by 2100. While all coastal cities will be affected by rising sea levels, Asian countries will be hit much harder than others due to their population, economic activity, and landmass. HER Pla...

13 May 2020

HER Planet Earth first all-female team to fatbike across Greenland

Land cleared to make way for palm oil in Indonesia

News / Food & Agriculture

New rule clears Indonesia’s protected forests for agribusiness

...floods, control erosion, and maintain soil fertility. But the new regulation threatens these objectives by encouraging the destruction of these valuable ecosystems, says Emil Salim, a former minister ...

23 Nov 2020

New rule clears Indonesia’s protected forests for agribusiness

Rice farming is critical to Cambodia's economy and food security, but the crop contributes to loss of natural habitat in the Southeast Asian country. Image:

News / Food & Agriculture

How can Cambodian farming survive climate change?

...flooded forests burned to make way for farmland. Mahood said in the wake of the 2016 drought, about a third of the Tonle Sap’s sprawling flooded forest was torched and converted to agricultural land, ...

22 Mar 2019

How can Cambodian farming survive climate change?

News / Policy & Finance

Expand conserved areas to boost global economy ravaged by Covid-19, says report

...floods and cleaner water, the report says. The value of these ecosystem services compared to today’s status quo would come to about $350 billion annually. When both the economic and ecosystem service ...

27 Jul 2020

Expand conserved areas to boost global economy ravaged by Covid-19, says report

News / Water

Water dangers loom for South Asia

...Floods (GLOFs), and floods. This will be a critical problem for India and Pakistan, who have both experienced devastating floods in their Himalayan regions, but it will have an immediate impact on Afg...

15 Feb 2019

Water dangers loom for South Asia

News / Policy & Finance

Poorest people getting world's small change to cope with climate crisis

The world's poorest people, increasingly buffeted by storms, floods and droughts, have been getting less than 1 cent a day each in international help to protect them from wild weather and rising seas ...

23 Sep 2019

Poorest people getting world's small change to cope with climate crisis

News / Policy & Finance

Human rights threats in warming world could speed up climate action

...floods in Bangladesh - to climate change. Such "attribution science" can now also link the actions of specific fossil fuel corporations to rising global temperatures, said Jennifer Morgan, the head of...

19 Sep 2019

Human rights threats in warming world could speed up climate action

News / Energy

Neither law nor accident stops coal mining in Meghalaya

...flooding of an illegal coal mine killed 15 miners in Meghalaya, the collective failure of all disaster management agencies in India has been almost forgotten. On December 13, 2018, 20 miners were trap...

20 Dec 2019

Neither law nor accident stops coal mining in Meghalaya

News / Cities

As sea levels rise, UN climbs aboard floating-cities push

A UN-backed partnership will study the futuristic prospect of floating cities, looking at how platforms at sea might help bail out coastal cities at risk of flooding due to climate change. With 90 per...

5 Apr 2019

As sea levels rise, UN climbs aboard floating-cities push

An activist protesting against JP Morgan Chase's fossil fuel financing in the United States.

News / Policy & Finance

Fossil fuel funding by world's biggest banks has grown every year since the Paris Agreement, report finds

...floods, droughts, fires and storms grows, it is unconscionable and outrageous for banks to be approving new loans and raising capital for the companies that are pushing hardest to increase carbon emis...

20 Mar 2020

Fossil fuel funding by world's biggest banks has grown every year since the Paris Agreement, report finds

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of global leaders finds

...floods and droughts, "all key indicators point that this is a situation that's bad and it's getting worse," said John Drzik, chairman of Marsh & McLennan Insights, a global risk, insurance and pro...

16 Jan 2020

Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of global leaders finds

News / Policy & Finance

UN food body elects first Chinese head as climate crisis worsens

...floods, conflict and economic slowdowns, UN figures show. The current FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva, architect of Brazil's landmark Zero Hunger programme, has overseen a drive to push th...

24 Jun 2019

UN food body elects first Chinese head as climate crisis worsens

News / Carbon & Climate

Speeding sea level rise threatens nuclear plants

...flood protection measures can be put in place fast enough to deal with unexpected and unpredicted storm surges.” This story was published with permission from Climate News Network.

17 Feb 2020

Speeding sea level rise threatens nuclear plants

News / Carbon & Climate

Emissions cuts in line with Paris Agreement would see benefits ‘within two decades’

...flood defences. But it is harder to pinpoint the benefits of climate mitigation in the next few decades compared to the second half of the century, lead author Dr Christine McKenna from the University...

9 Dec 2020

Emissions cuts in line with Paris Agreement would see benefits ‘within two decades’

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