Climate Change

Tunisian farmer Saber Zouani is proud of what he achieved. After losing his job in the tourism sector during the pandemic, he decided to try something new and started a permaculture farm. Since then he has become self-sufficient and is now even making an income for his family selling the…

Addressing The Gathering virtually, US writer and activist Bill McKibben, who wrote the first book about climate change in 1989, said that since the publication of The End of Nature, the global economy had emitted more greenhouse gases than it did in all of human history before then.  What was…

May 26, 2023 12:00 PM Susanna Pollack and Sheridan Tatsuno Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Games for Change boss Susanna Pollack joined Dreamscape Global’s founder Sheridan Tatsuno to talk about how gaming can simulate climate change as part…

Protecting India's tigers also good for climate: study By Juliette COLLEN Paris (AFP) May 25, 2023 India's efforts to protect its endangered tigers have inadvertently helped avoid a large amount of climate change-causing carbon emissions by preventing deforestation, a study said on Thursday. Three-quarters of the world's wild tigers live…

Uganda's economy is expected to grow by 5.5% in 2023, following a strong performance in the first half of the year.  Inflation in Uganda is on a declining path, providing a favorable environment for economic recovery. Challenges for Uganda's economy include geoeconomic fragmentation, global inflation, and climate change consequences, necessitating…

For more than a century, the idea of democracy has meant a liberal democracy, where we vote for our leaders and our government rests on a defining document like the U.S. Constitution. In a liberal democracy, there is also a separation of powers between the different arms of our representative…

It is allergy season once again. If you are one of the 81 million Americans with hay fever, spring is a mixed blessing. Yes, the days are longer, but they are accompanied by itchy eyes, runny noses, and an endless hunt for antihistamines. On days when the pollen count is highest,…

Climate change could unleash gigantic tsunamis in the Southern Ocean by triggering underwater landslides in Antarctica, a new study warns.  By drilling into sediment cores hundreds of feet beneath the seafloor in Antarctica, scientists discovered that during previous periods of global warming — 3 million and 15 million years ago…

File Photo A report by the United Nations World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has disclosed that a total of 733,585 deaths occurred in Africa between 1970 and 2021 — 51 years as a result of extreme weather, climate and water-related events. The WMO issued the new findings at the opening of…

Deep in the Amazon, Brazil is building a complex of towers arrayed in six rings poised to spray carbon dioxide into the rainforest. The aim is to understand how the world’s largest tropical forest responds to climate change. Known as AmazonFACE, the project will probe the forest’s remarkable ability to…