Tag: Dispatches
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A Simple Way to Grow More Rice in a Changing Climate
Watching my parents' rice crop fail was
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Climate Change is Not Just About the Climate, it is About Our Lives
You may know my region, Cusco, because it is
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It's not God, it's Climate Change
Constance Okolett at entrance to her kitchen in eastern Uganda Asinget village Osukuru sub county Tororo district. Image credit: Oxfam International/Flickr This post was written by Constance Okolett, a farmer from Tororo district in Eastern Uganda and a
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Olivia Zaleski Talks to Dessima Williams About the Plight of Island Nations
No one on the planet is more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than the citizens of small island nations. In this video report, Olivia Zaleski talks with Dessima Williams, Grenada's ambassador to the United Nations, about the challenges they
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Climate Change-Induced Drought Causing Crop Failure, Livestock Problems in Indian Himalayas
Compared to the focus on Arctic and Antarctic ice melting, glacial retreat and climate change in the Himalaya doesn't quite get the same
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From the Front Lines of Global Warming: California Firefighter Speaks (Video)
The numbers aren't looking good--more and more Americans are ceasing to believe in the very real, scientifically proven threat of global warming. There are plenty of theories as to why this is--Americans' growing distrust of science,
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Multiyear Arctic Sea Ice Practically Gone - Not in the Future, Today
You've probably seen all sort of predictions about when the Arctic will see it's first ice-free summer in, umm, all of human history. Well, the University of Manitoba's
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Rising Temps Mean Malarial Mosquitos Infecting People on Mount Kenya (Video)
Last week it was house flies at the Mount Everest base camp, now it's mosquitos and malaria in the highlands around Mount Kenya that are in the spotlight, in this video clip from the UN Environment Programme. It's a short clip, but puts a human face on
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With Each Passing Month the Situation Gets More Desperate: Climate Change Sinks Carteret Islanders
Though it may be a number of years before your life is personally impacted by climate change, for people in low-lying island nations and the world's great river deltas rising sea levels and saltwater ruining land
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House Flies at Everest Base Camp Effect of Warmer Temps
Here's a pretty concrete effect of warming temperatures and long-term glacier melting in the Himalayas: The Guardian is reporting that climbers waiting to ascend the world's highest peak are seeing house flies at
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Just Two Cents From Every New Yorker Could Build Carteret Island's Climate Change Refugees New Homes
I didn't initially schedule it this way, but yesterday at Climate Week NYC turned out to be one spanning the
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Bangladesh Environment Network Delivers Plea to UN: Stop Climate Change! Save Bangladesh!
Friday outside the United Nations in New York, members of the Bangladesh Environment Network and approximately 50 supporters rallied and delivered a message addressed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, making the case that
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20% of Mekong Delta Submerged With Rising Seas by 2100 - 10% of Ho Chi Minh City Will Go Under, Too
It seems to be river delta awareness day in global media: A piece in The Guardian highlights the future impact on climate change on the Nile Delta; and Reuters points out that the Mekong Delta faces difficult times ahead
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Nile Delta Poised to Be Sunk by Sea Level Rise - Groundwater Salinity Already a Growing Problem
Bangladesh may be the poster-child of global warming's perfect storm -- high population density, low-lying land, and an utter lack of funds for mitigation and adaptation -- but a great new piece in The Guardian really paints
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Amazon Tribe Already Feels the Pinch From Climate Change & Deforestation
For a really great image of how environmental changes are already affecting
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Climate Change Too Abstract For You? Dengue Fever Could Spread to 28 U.S. States
In red are counties that have one of the 2 Dengue mosquito vector species. Blue are are vulnerable areas. Image: NRDC That's Pretty Concrete and Scary Matthew recently wrote a post about the climate change induced expansion of the tropics and the
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Global Warming is Shrinking the Soay Sheep of Scotland
Photo: Wikipedia, CC The Incredible Shrinking Sheep! Could the changing climate be shrinking animals? That seems to be the case for the Soay sheep of Scotland. "The island of Hirta, on the western coast of Scotland, is home to a special breed of sheep.
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Climate Change to Cause "Cultural Genocide" for Australia's Aborigines
Just as a band of Carteret Islanders are abandoning their homes due to the effects of climate change--becoming the world's first climate change refugees--word has come that rising sea levels and more severe weather patterns may claim an
