Environment

‘Game changer’ ideas on water and sustainability, centre-stage ahead of major water conference

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A child fills a jerrycan with safe water at a displaced camp near Goma, in the...

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Senior women protest at melting Swiss glaciers to highlight climate urgency, ahead of court case

A group of senior Swiss women and climate activists have laid giant band-aids on the last piece of glacier-ice connecting the swiftly melting Scex Rouge and Tsanfleuron Glaciers, to protest the Swiss government’s inaction on the growing climate...

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Greenpeace report highlights inequity in vulnerable groups’ exposure to air pollution and access to air quality data

A report published by Greenpeace India for U.N. International Day of Clean Air for blue skies (7 September 2022) reveals that even though air pollution is a universal health problem that affects everyone on this planet, the risks are not evenly...

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Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on famine in Somalia

Somalia has reached a tipping point. The lives of hundreds of thousands of people are at immediate risk, according to the latest food security and nutrition analysis. Famine is unfolding in two areas in the Bay region (Baidoa and Burhakaba districts)...

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