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World Oceans Day and the importance of preserving marine ecosystems

World Oceans Day came a long way from its creation in 1992 to the globally recognised celebration that it is today. The project’s aim is to draw attention on the importance of the world’s oceans, not only to humans but to ...

by Tímea Fazekas

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It Never Rains In Central Asia, But When It Does, It Pours

On May 30-31st torrential rainstorms caused chaos on Kazakhstan’s Almaty, Uzbekistan’s Tashkent and Kyrgyzstan’s Bishkek. While damage was mostly limited to floating cars and flooded houses, for Kyrgyzstan the...

by Global Voices

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Tens Of Thousands Stranded, Serbians Take Flood Relief Into Their Own Hands

In May 2014, a natural disaster the size of which officials claim hasn’t been seen in over 120 years hit Serbia and Bosnia, when a huge low-pressure cloud system hovered over the region shedding three-months worth or rain...

by Danica Radisic

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Water Stewardship: Bringing Together Business And Conservation

Water is the earth’s most precious resource. Though we live on a ‘blue planet’, less than one per cent of water is actually accessible as freshwater. Water is essential to human survival, to the natural environment, to th...

by Alexis McGivern

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Party Now, Apocalypse Later: The Last Days On Earth According To The UN’s Climate Change Report

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a report on the state of the earth’s future and the impact of climate change on the world’s natural resources. To say the least, the report is incredib...

by Mimi Celeste Taylor

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When It Comes To Climate Change Refugees, No Man Is An Island

In October of last year, the debate over environmental migration spiked as Kiribati islander Ioane Teitiota appealed to New Zealand’s courts to recognise him as the first climate change refugee. In late November, the courts r...

by Linn Kristin Klausen

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Climate Change Threatening Women’s’ Reproductive Power

Salma Banu is 23 years old, a worker of shrimp cultivation in Tafalbari village , Southkhali Union in Bagherhat Bangladesh, she expressed “ while my husband‘s monthly income from his cultivated land was not enough to contin...

by Tithe Farhana

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How The Dutch Are Reinventing The Poisoned Food Industry.

Although it has been a year since I moved from my hometown Amsterdam to London, I’m far from integrated in terms of the British food culture. Keeping a ‘normal’ healthy diet, I find it hard to find decent, afforda...

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Travelers Against Plastic

Plastic bottles and plastic paper bags are a threat to our environment. A couple of years back, the government of Kenya abolished plastic paper bags and advocated for bio-degradable carry bags or cloth reusable bags. The privat...

by Fridah Mlemwa

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World Oceans Day and the importance of preserving marine ecosystems

It Never Rains In Central Asia, But When It Does, It Pours

Tens Of Thousands Stranded, Serbians Take Flood Relief Into Their Own Hands

Water Stewardship: Bringing Together Business And Conservation

Party Now, Apocalypse Later: The Last Days On Earth According To The UN’s Climate Change Report

When It Comes To Climate Change Refugees, No Man Is An Island

Climate Change Threatening Women’s’ Reproductive Power

How The Dutch Are Reinventing The Poisoned Food Industry.

Travelers Against Plastic

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