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The Current Economic Model: A Destructive Social Construct?

As the world witnesses an Ebola outbreak that has been hyped by the media as the next Black Plague, we are left to wonder why the problem of climate change doesn’t attract as much attention. Unarguably, climate change is real...
by Apratim Vidyarthi
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5 Things You Can Do Today To Tackle Climate Change

If you ever feel that the steps you can take to reduce climate change have insignificant consequences compared to that of multinational corporations then the following facts will put things into perspective.  Seemingly mundane...
by Tímea Fazekas
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How Pacific islanders are fighting climate change with canoes

Climate change is hitting the Pacific Islands hard. Sea levels are rising, temperatures are increasing, worsening storm surges and flooding have contaminated fresh water supplies and ruined crops. Already, residents of one isla...
by Fenton Lutunatabua
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Asia

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...
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Weekly News Roundup: 26 May-1 June 2014

Politics EU Elections Update ‘EU elections have turned out to be what most experts expected. There was a sharp shift to the right, with many far-right parties securing extraordinary parts of the vote, some even winning the e...
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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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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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