Climate Change

With climate change making weather patterns harsher and more unpredictable, farmers must diversify their crops to remain food secure. Farmers are using scientific research and traditional knowledge to boost farm productivity. As a result, they’re increasing their nutrition and using crops that are climate resilient. Groups like the United Nations’…

Date/Time: April 27, 2023 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) The latest IPCC report is clear: the greenhouse gas emission reductions necessary to mitigate the worst effects of climate change must be rapid and deep and immediate. Thousands of companies have made public commitments and joined the Science-Based Target Initiative, but…

SAMUDA... we are pleading with citizens to be circumspect with their use of the precious commodity at this time (Photo: JIS) DUE to uncertainty of adequate rainfall for the rest of 2023, Senator Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio with responsibility for water, environment and climate change, has appealed to Jamaicans…

After years of organizing, a global movement of young people helped push the UN to request a consequential opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice. April 26, 2023 Before the pandemic, before the floods that swept through my hometown and across Appalachia, before the two cyclones that…

  Earth Day 2023 Is Concern and Focus Slipping on Climate Change? A new global Ipsos survey of 21,231 adults reveals that, on average across 29 countries, just under a third (31%) of people agree that their government has a clear plan in place for how government, businesses and people…

In this clip, climate and housing justice activist Diana Yoon breaks down some of the strategies employed by the climate justice movement to counter corporate influence. Diana Yoon is a climate and housing justice activist based in Toronto. She is currently organizing with Climate Justice Toronto. Yoon holds a Master’s…

YELLOWKNIFE - By the shore of the still-frozen Yellowknife River, more than a dozen people gather to prepare fish for cooking over a crackling fire. Originating from different communities across the North, they share the unique ways they've learned to clean and cut them. Wildlife officers and trappers are reconnecting…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Saturday departed Abuja for the United States (US) to deliver a special lecture at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in Philadelphia. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement, noted that the vice president would also participate in an interactive session with students, coordinated by Wale Adebanwi,…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday April 22, 2023 traveled to the United States of America to deliver a special lecture at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in Philadelphia. This was disclosed by Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement in Abuja. Akade said the vice president would also participate…

A 50-year-old spoiler alert: At the end of "Soylent Green" — a classic 1973 science fiction movie directed by Richard Fleischer, written by Stanley R. Greenberg and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young and Edward G. Robinson — the protagonist learns that human beings are being tricked by an evil corporation…