At least 10 people were killed in an artisanal gold mine collapse in Burkina Faso last week. The collapse occurred in Sideradougou, Western Burkina Faso on the 14th, in a region that sees frequent “deadly” landslides. “About 10 bodies have...
A recently published Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has highlighted how thousands of Indigenous people and other rural communities have had their lives ‘devastated’ by oil palm plantations in Indonesia – the world’s largest palm oil exporter. Indonesia is home...
In the courtyard of her home in Valparaiso, Chile, Dominga Mondaca pointed to the barren land where the water once irrigated strawberry and citrus plantations. She is one of over 600,000 people who need to be supplied with water since...
In Panama, man-made mastery and misery have collided. For a hundred years, its world-renowned canal has achieved the once-unimaginable – linking the planet’s largest oceans. But this marvel of engineering is succumbing to another work of mankind: climate change. Earlier...
Global protests at the hands of organisation Extinction Rebellion (XR) are beginning to take place as dozens of activists are being arrested. The group aim to bring Central London to a halt as they commence protests to force governments to...
Oil, electricity, the internet – all integral pillars of modernity. But our dependence on the planet’s most primordial resource – water – trumps them all. Oceans dominate the globe, but an infinitesimal proportion of the world’s wet stuff is fit...
The climate change crisis is currently ravaging millions of peoples’ livelihoods in the Horn of Africa leading to a rapid increase in demand for humanitarian needs and assistance. As a result, the intensity of cyclic droughts are becoming more severe,...
Active forest fires in Central Africa are greater than the Amazon fires, and have a potential to be more dangerous, Greenpeace has warned. Termed “the fire continent” by NASA, Africa is home to at least 70% of fires burning worldwide,...
In Elbasan, there are no smells or sounds. It is an aseptic hybrid, half-city half-countryside. Goats graze in the contaminated fields. They also make no noise. By its mere presence, the Metalurgjiku silences everything that gravitates around it. The monumental...
Climate change is taking it's toll on Svalbard and making life even harder for it's secluded community.
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