On Friday (December 13), leaders of the European Union (EU), except Poland, reached a deal for being carbon neutral by 2050 in a summit in Brussels, meaning that the bloc’s 28 member countries must lower their carbon emissions from fossil...
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...
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...
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...
Massive demonstrations have hit several countries across the globe in recent months. The prolonged protest against the controversial extradition bill (which was later annulled) in Hong Kong may have inspired the global discontent on governments. Global protests can as a...
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...
The unexpected success of the Green parties in this year’s European Parliament elections triggered a discussion about a Green wave that swept over the continent, while some even referred to this emerging political movement as “a quiet revolution”. However, proponents...
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...
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...
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