Climate change preceded by cyclic droughts and flash floods is already affecting agriculture, a key economic sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. In rural Kenya, Paul Koech, a 37-year-old father of six from the Kapkatet village in Narok County relies on farming...
According to the activists who have been fighting since years to stop the construction, the environmental impact of the Ilisu dam, in Turkey, will be huge, but it is difficult to understand how much exactly because of the Turkish legislation. What is sure, however is that the building of the dam it will threaten hundreds of animal and vegetal species.
Smoke from rampant bush fires in Australia has been blanketing the cities of Sydney and Adelaide for almost two weeks. Although starting around mid-November, the sheer extent and ferocity of this year’s wildfires have climatologists pointing to climate change as...
Water scarcity is one of the biggest problems of the twenty-first century, caused by climate change, global population rises and people relocating to cities en masse. Historically, civilisations with access to fresh water survived; those without perished. Water is physiologically...
In a rather blunt and still unimaginable depiction of seasonal drought compounded by global warming, hale German forests are starting to die. With some forestry workers describing the situation as “catastrophic,” prolonged drought and unnatural heat are jeopardising German forests’...
Since poaching rhino horns became a well organised international trade several years ago, its tempo and drive has resembled a military operation. Current figures show that two to three African rhinos are poached in various locales across Africa every day....
The Amazon Rainforest is under threat from illegal logging and mining as the descendants of prehistoric tribes patrol the huge area that is their home, trying to stop the destruction. But the task is huge. The guardians of the area...
Volunteers cleaning up the oil spill in Brazil are getting sick. The mysterious spill has polluted more than 130 Northeastern beaches in Brazil for nearly two months. Volunteers, without proper equipment, have been cleaning up the toxic sludge with their...
It comes with a mantra of doom. “Unless we start cutting carbon emissions radically within two years, humanity faces extinction.” Donnachadh McCarthy, a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion (also known as XR), told Inside Over quoting UN General Secretary António Gutteres...
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