Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

Newsletter
13 Jan, 2021

Climate & Environment

Iraq water crisis

UN says a fifth of Iraqis can’t get water that’s safe to drink/use.

9 March, 2023

Catastrophic floods in Malaysia

The Met department has warned of more rains in the coming days.

6 March, 2023

Brazil and the US to collaborate on combating the climate crisis

Kerry will advance the US-Brazil Climate Change Working Group that Presidents Biden and Lula relaunched earlier this month.

28 February, 2023

Understanding the climate change

Since 2016, U-S government researchers funded by the Department of Energy have been simulating global warming and recording the results, in what is called the…

27 February, 2023

Brazil floods

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited impacted areas in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo.

22 February, 2023

Devastating floods in Sao Paulo state

Local government has declared a state of alert in the area as entire neighbourhoods are underwater, debris from hillside houses swept away by oozing earth,…

21 February, 2023

Madagascar cyclone

Mauritius has grounded flights and shut its stock exchange on Monday in anticipation of the cyclone.

21 February, 2023

The largest climate-change experiments

The goal is to understand how climate change will affect Minnesota’s northern forest peatlands, massive wetlands that provide a habitat to spruce and tamarack trees,…

21 February, 2023

Cyclone Gabrielle

Residents of Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, are being asked to prepare for cyclone Gabrielle.

13 February, 2023

Chile’s uncontrolled fires

About 20 people have been arrested on suspicion of having set some of the fires.

12 February, 2023

More fires are expected in Chile

High temperatures are forecast through Friday and could rise above 35 degrees Celsius in the central Mauley Ñuble regions.

9 February, 2023

World’s biodiversity crisis

The WWF estimates that Earth is losing species at thousands of times the natural extinction rate, due to human-led causes.

12 December, 2022