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Option 6: Eat Fewer Hamburgers

If you’re looking for a snapshot of where we’re at on climate change, take a look at this helpful and entertaining flowchart by ClimateDesk. Catering for presidents, mad scientists and individuals alike, it presents three s...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Crisis In Darfur: Will Arresting The Sudanese President Change Anything?

Ever since 2003, the crisis in Darfur has grown consistently worse. At the moment, human rights activists are vehemently protesting for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and charges of genocide af...
by Bianca Facchinei
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Still Unsustainable; Nairobi

Changing weather patterns! Ozone layer depletion! Melting ice caps! This has been the alarming news across the globe last few years. When climate change became a public concern a few years back, the media presented Kenya with t...
by Fridah Mlemwa
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The US Heat Wave And The Climate ‘Debate’

Western USA is feeling the burn. Not only was last month Nevada’s hottest June ever recorded, but when the temperature peaked at 47.2°C (116°F) in Vegas just two days ago, it tied with the hottest temperature ever record...
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WATCH: Holistic Planned Grazing: Is This the Solution to Climate Change?

Burning fossil fuels isn’t the only way to pour carbon into the atmosphere. In this TED talk, Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory explains how desertification – the process of land turning into desert – is an equal if not...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Gender Responsive Climate Change Adaptation

The countries that are most affected by climate changes are the poorest and within these states, women bear the brunt of the negative effects of the changes to natural resources, agriculture and environment. Hence, climate chan...
by El Mostafa Jamea
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Obama, Climate Change, and the Keystone XL Pipeline

There is growing pressure on President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline extension, which, when complete, will transport crude oil from tar sands in Alberta down to various refineries in the United States. On February ...
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Portable, Potable Solutions to the World’s Water Crisis

Among the most important resources in the world, in terms of both human survival and global conflict, is potable drinking water. Access to clean drinking water is tangled up in nearly every health crisis around the world, and i...
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Too Big to Succeed? A Critical Look at the Financing of Dams in Africa

“There can be no prosperity without infrastructure, but infrastructure projects don’t necessarily benefit the poor.” Those are the opening remarks of a report recently released by International Rivers entitled, Infrastru...
by Ruth Nyambura
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