Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

Climate & Environment

UN 2023 Water Conference

Water use has been increasing globally by roughly 1% per year over the last 40 years and is expected to grow at a similar rate ..

Published on: 22 March, 2023

Cyclone Freddy

Malawi already is grappling with the deadliest cholera outbreak in its history, which has killed more than 1,600 people since last year. Mozambique is also struggling ..

Published on: 15 March, 2023

Iraq water crisis

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

Published on: 9 March, 2023

Catastrophic floods in Malaysia

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

Published on: 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.

Published on: 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 ..

Published on: 27 February, 2023

Brazil floods

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

Published on: 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, ..

Published on: 21 February, 2023

Madagascar cyclone

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

Published on: 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, ..

Published on: 21 February, 2023

Cyclone Gabrielle

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

Published on: 13 February, 2023

Chile’s uncontrolled fires

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

Published on: 12 February, 2023