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In 2011, former West Virginia United States Sen. Robert C. Byrd said, “To deny the mounting science of climate change is to stick our heads in the sand.”
A year later, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said, “To those who say climate risk is a far off problem, I can tell you...
New research from Food Tank, CARE International, and the Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) program showcases ways forward in cultivating equality in the food system.
Climate change threatens to put hundreds of millions people – mostly women and...
Making predictions about climate variability often means looking to the past to find trends. Now paleoclimate researchers from the University of Missouri have found clues in exposed bedrock alongside an Alabama highway that could help forecast climate variability. In their study, the...
Nosotros los pueblos indígenas urgimos a los gobiernos y la comunidad internacional a reconocer nuestro derecho a la autodeterminación, y respeto a nuestro derecho a la libertad de expresión y asociación. Expresamos nuestra preocupación por la criminalización de las acciones de los...
The Fourth International Women of the Mountains (IWM) conference will take place on 7-9 October, 2015 at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, co-organized by UVU and the International University of Kyrgyzstan (IUK) under the auspice of the ...
One day in mid-July, Nazim brought a truckload of clothes and food to his home in Barsem, a village in the Pamir Mountains of east Tajikistan, in preparation for his wedding later in the summer.
The following afternoon, on July 16, a flash flood sent mud and debris tearing...
The first five video lectures of our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “Climate change: a question of justice?” are now online! Have a look! The course is open to all, free of charge and comes with no obligations. Over the next eight weeks, there will be a total of 34 short video...
A recent paper reveals key factors that drive the adoption of soil and water conservation as a land-based strategy to adapt to global change in the drylands of western Africa. This paper concludes with methodological principles to advance future research on adoption drivers and...
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